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Its been snowing in the mountains the last couple of days. Hope you can get them through again then you will have some thumpers next year

Right lots to post at the moment but so little time too. I'll get to the rest of it eventually but have to make a comment about this while its fresh in my head.

So fo r no real reason I went to the cod tank this morning to check up on them. Partly because its been a bit warm lately but just because I had some time to kill before heading off for work..

Anyway, I peered in the tank to find what I though to be plastic on the bottom. I put my hand in to retrieve it and pulled it out and played with it bit. It was not plastic but I was still unsure what it could be. It was a bit like a tube with a few holes in it. Upon further investigation it was the skin of a rainbow trout!

Now I had heard the Murray cod were canabilistic but..... For start I do not remember placing a trout in his tank this season unless it was from last season? Secondly I have not seem a trout in his tank ever before.
Last but not least they had devoured the thing whole including turning its skin inside out and no sign of skeleton.

Previously I have discovered a Skelton of a Murray cod in te tank obviously succumbed to the others rath bu a whole trout at estimate 150gm is just weird.

Any ho I have some photos of the system in it current state but it takes a bit of effort to ge them up so it will have to wait.

Also just rub it in I still have a good number of trout still swimming, hopping to get tem through summer. Only one month to go.

So you have never had a trout in that tank ever? Man, thats so wierd.

Bah...my little trout battler didn't make it through the summer heat wave here in Sydney.

Did you stop feeding them in November? I only feed them sparingly now on bits of yabbie. Like once or twice every few weeks.

Yeah same. Didn't feed him much. A pinch of trout food ever few weeks. He definitely died from the heat.

Lost a single trout the other day. May have coincided with a power outage we had over night the day or so before. Still have no food and only feeding the cod a yabbie every day or so.

What are your temps Bundy

A very belated answer to your question Charlie. At the time I would guess the temps were sitting around the 19c mark, with maybe 3-4 degree fluctuations. The beauty of this summer has been the cooler night temps until recently. Apparently Victoria just broke some record for number of days consecutive days in feb over 30. Which has meant warm nights. Been getting some storms too which last night resulted in getting home to a blackout. Powercore MSG at 5pm was estimating restoration at 7:30 pm.
I tested the water temp to be blown away by 27.5C all tanks without backup air.

Got the hose running town water into all grow beds and just let it run providing aeration until 7.30 until power was supposed to be restored. Power was not restored until 8:30.

No signs of stress or death today and a check of he water temps after a cool change today shows 16.8C that's a 10C drop in water temp in 24 hrs!

chilly tanks:-P


what still no back up? with the amount of power outages you seem to get.

anyhow glad all is ok.

matt

Got my new season trout yesterday. 50 rainbows at about 50mm long. Had to do some emergency shuffling of last years stock which were spread over the two main fish tanks.

The system has been faultless and pretty much looking after itself for the past 4 months. Stopped feeding the trout pellets over summer and just been feeding the odd hand full of worms or yabbie tales. Lost around 3 due to heat or loss of power. And another recently which looked like it had died from lack of feed. Must have been a bit of picked on runt.

I would guess there would be 10-15 left at around 150gms and although the MC have been a bit disappointing in growth over summer I have not had many casualties to speak of. Would estimate there would be 35-40 left at approx 75-100mm.


Veggies report: cherry tomatoes have taken over nearly two GBs many ripening but getting a bit late for them now. I will be pruning them right back and picking all remaining fruit in the next few weeks. Chives and spring onions and leaks took a bit of a knock about by over crowding and an out break of spider mites.
Corn did well in both plantings that I did however nothing got to the table due to the rats.
Radishes and beet root been good as always. Celery not doing well at the moment however that will pick up soon I hope. Pumpkin was planted too late however it did the same as it always does for me and gets to a certain size then just stalls. Am keen to clean up the beds and start some autumn/winter veg when I get a chance.

So jealous. I have to skip trout this year as I'll be moving house soon.

It's agonizing waiting for silvers to grow when you know you can't do a trout season.

Any backup system in place yet Bndy hate to see you lose any more.

Nothing in place at the moment. Should sort something out when I get back.

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Change of weather issues again. Have lost a handful of mc In the last few weeks. Starting to drop like flys just like the sp used too.