Backyard Aquaponics
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Given up waiting for Mantis to start this years thread.

There's been a few Trout harvested by members already.........So let's see them

Muzza

Nah, it was your turn to start the thread Muzza
Yeah common folks pics please

Not really brag worthy, but I've had one jumper...

http://sdrv.ms/14EPo9J

The rest are growing well.

Yet again... proof that sky diving isn't dangerous.... but impact is a bitch....

interesting herbal marinade

Ive found our winter nights to be way too cold to get any decent growth this early on in the year. Late september should start seeing some improvement in feeding rates.

Mine have gone right off the feed the past couple of days due to the cold too, but I reckon they'll be back on it in a few days when it gets up to near 20C maxima again. Frosty nights and 12C max is a bit too cold for them.

4 deg nights here

Mine are scoffing their pellets. Water temps have been back down to 13 deg this week. I plan on catching a couple tomorrow morning to smoke for the weekend so I'll make sure I get a couple of photo's

Mine are smashing the food and have just recently taken to the 7mm skrettings

My one that i have left (which wont be harvested till end of season so i can win) thinks its a goldfish, eats plenty but is very casual about the whole thing.

since it only gets fed at night and can hardly be seen, it looks like a whale breaching when it eats

That's toasty! My FT was 7.5 deg yesterday morning, and 8.5 this morning. If the tanks weren't buried, it would be even lower.

pulled my first for the season, 350g one of my smaller ones, he got hammered at feed time tonight and when i checked to see all the food had been eaten he was upside down barely swimming so he's dinner tomorrow

I tried to move 9 fish to a new tank a 2 couple of weeks ago with a fishing net, unfortunately the wide netting meant 2 fish got stuck by their gills. One returned no problems, the other...... belly up surface swimming. I ate him within 5 minutes. Gave up on net & borrowed a neighbors pool leaf skimmer for the rest of the moving.

The trout tasted great (my first ever ap trout- approx 28cm) but the flesh was beige & pale. I have since started feeding them on larger BYA pellets that apparently contain high levels of carotin which should start giving the flesh a nice yellow tinge.

No photo, sorry. Will be sure to post in the next yew months once the harvesting begins. Currently they range in size from 20-30cm (most around 26cm at a guess). Is everyone else experiencing similar sizes at the moment??

Not here, my largest would be around 20cm or so, but they did only go in just under 10 weeks ago, all were under 10cm then.