Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

thanks Faye , my test kits and seasol arrived safe with my mum !!

ive been keeping barra for the last week, but i put 2x600w heaters in the fish tank just to make sure the water doesn't drop below 20. morning temp has been around 22-24 and 24 -25 in afternoon. before we had all this crap weather first couple days i had barra the water temps in the afternoon were Nealy hitting 30 in the tank.

i got my fish from gp, got to catch them myself =), and i throw the floating pellets in and they wont take them no matter how long and still i stand for. so its a bit hard to tell how much to feed them. hopefully they will start to feed as i throw the pellets in.

the first 5 days i put them in i didn't feed them and let them settle in.

Greenfingers in midvale have 30mm barra for $3.50 each or 200-250mm barra for about $9 each

I am thinking of building a small two barrel system I can heat while the main system warms up. Really want to do barra but due to the temps (tanks still between 17.5 - 20 c) missed out on them this year. Thought if I had a small system to keep the fry happy and warm for a few weeks it should not matter what the temps were. Having to get silvers for the summer then move them to my smaller seond system to grow out when I get trout next year. Problem is second system can only support around 2/3 of what my main system can.

Ok greenfingers is out at the moment, power failure n they lost a heap of their big barra and the others didnt look too good. Will c next weekend if any are avail. Their 200mm and bigger are 12.95 ea too

Not very smart not having some kind of back up system??

Yeah they gonna have to do something, they said they lost 800 odd barra not that long ago due to power at the other store!

Damn, was hoping to save a drive out to Baldivis for my other half of stock

Check on the weekend mate, they will have some then they have spare

Ring these guys first; wasted too much of my life waiting for the shop to open Monday.

Belleye were you the guy there who left when I got there? I was with a little boy?

ive had my barra for nearly 2 weeks, ther 25-30cm in size, i have 13 all up. but having trouble feeding them 6mm floating pallets. water temp today when feeding was 26. i throw a hand full of pellets into the ibc and the pellets go to the edge of the tank (water flow pushes them) but the barra stay deep. i even tried throwing the pellets from a distance. half an hour later the pellets are still floating. so its a bit hard to tell how much to feed them, which will also be hard to grow them to size. cany any one help?

I hate to say it on this forum because there is a lot of people that won't agree, but I would just bite the bullet and feed them sinking pellets. All of the Barra that i have bought over 150mm appeared to have been raised eating sinking pellets as they were either very reluctant to eat floating food or would not eat it at all.

Midvale or Maddington?

midvale, not sure about maddington, the guy didnt say if maddington had any

they had a heap of little ones, most of them were Ok other then a couple dead and one had another barra halfway down its throat was was dead, i suspect that killed it!

not sure if it would be worth getting the small ones tho??? they must be about 100mm in size tops