Backyard Aquaponics
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Thank you muchly....tasted good too!

I bet it did

The temperatures are dropping..........nearly trout time! Our FT was 23.4 two weeks ago................21.7 at 5pm yesterday............

Not long now!

OK....that's it.....the barra are out and Troutman arrives today!! Now for an exciting few months
We were pleased overall with the barra, even though we bought them bigger to start with. We harvested the remaining 22 and they ranged between about 500 and 700 grams, and a couple of tiddlers. We obviously caught the biggest last time!

Who was it who said we mostly post at barra and trout harvest times???? Ok, you were right!!!

Just keep posting... at Barra and Trout harvest times...

Thanks folks
Aaahhh, trout.......So much more exciting even in their first hour or two than the barra ever were!!!! Thanks Gav!

G'day Dandm, Great Barra.....very inspiring.....you got to love the appetite of Trout .

Muzza

Very Impressively productive system DandM.

Apologies if I missed it but is the pool water connected to the BYA system?

Thanks....
Slowboat, the swimming pool is not connected to the AP system in any way. It has its own biofilter and eco-pump running 24/7, and we grow floating rafts (celery at the moment) of plants on the pool surface.
Deb and Mack

Interestingly, this year't trout season hasn't been smooth as in previous years
Over a three or four week period the occasional trout would die, for no apparent reason. All the water conditions were fine, so the only thing we could think that caused it was malabar spinach seeds dropping into the fish tank. Since removing the malabar from nearby, we didn't get those intermittent deaths.....so who knows

Then, just when we had time to get complacent again....the ammonia shot up (and we had already been struggling a bit with low pH)....so wham- death and destruction struck!

Fortunately we managed to save quite a few but we lost far too many

Onwards and upwards , there is always next year

Mine have not performed as well as in previous years either
and we've just come thru a 19 hr black-out as a final test

Cheers

Photos of the fish grown out in your system make me want to fry some fish for lunch.

must be about time to get some more Barra D&M?

I 'd like to try a few in my PTPC,

will Barra fingerlings eat my SP they are only 70 or 90mm long

Yup, they sure will. Barra have a big mouth and will eat anything that moves.