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Tony from total west fisheries rang me yesterday to let me know he has a lot of trout fingerlings for sale. They are between 3 and 5 inches long and the price is about $1.30 each.. If you're looking for some fish to grow out over winter, then these might be what your looking for.. Temperatures probably aren't quite low enough in most peoples systems as yet, he recommends water temperatures stay below 22 degrees, but in the next month or so water temps will probably be down that low in most systems..

Later in the year, ready for next season, he should have barra and silver perch fingerlings.. He also mentioned that he may have limited supplies of larger silver perch at the moment, but they were larger and would cost more..

Anyone interested, give Tony a ring, let him know that you heard about it through the backyard aquaponics forum.

Thanks EB

Eb, I note the temperature that Anton suggests (22 deg) as a safe temp for trout.
Sounds about right, wheres Hamel.
Pemby( king river) might be closer for me( 1/2 hr), and @ $1 each.
Thanks for the info

Yep, that heaps closer for you C1. How big are the $1 ones down your way C1?

Hamel from what I can figure out is maybe an hour south of the CBD.. I'm not 100% sure exactly, has anyone else been to Hamel or know where it is?

Hamel is just past Waroona from memory. I will google it and confirm....
I was right.... http://www.zoomin.com.au/australia/wa/hamel/

Thats not too far to travel if you only have to do it now and again. Tony does a lot of growing out fish in dams and tanks, and I've tried to convince him that supplying small batches of fingerlings is going to be a growing market. Hopefuly he will lots of fingerlings later in the year, thats one of the main let downs for people wanting to start aqiuaponics in W.A., fingerlings are hard to find....

Yeah, Hamel is a couple of km south of Waroona (1.5hrs from Perth) on the right hand side.
I went to check out his place but it was all shut up. The joint looks like a bomb hit it with crap all over the place. His neighbours recon the shire was trying to shut him down.

My place looks a bit like that too, though I haven't had the council try and shut me down... Yet.....

I think he is only open to the public on weekends, or by appointment.

[quote="earthbound"]Yep, that heaps closer for you C1. How big are the $1 ones down your way C1?

100- 120mm EB.

C1, King River is in Albany. Like to see you get there in 1/2 hour. I think you mean King Trout in Pemberton dont you?? But even that must be at least 100km from where you are.

I spoke to the guys at the govt trout hatchery in Pemberton today regarding getting some more fish. I thought I would also quiz them on the water temps they have there as there seems to be some disagreements
(mainly between me and C1) as to what temps trout will survive in. The guys there said that this February the water in their tanks has reached 26c on several occassions with only one or two fish losses out of thousands of trout. The key to trout surviving at these higher than ideal temps is that the water dosent stay that warm the whole day and cools down at night sometimes by as much as 10 degrees. I have read on this site that many people experience similar temp fluctuations in there systems over a 24 hr period. Rainbow Trout can only survive at 26c for 10 hours apparently.
The moral of the story is that you dont need your water temp to be at 22c (fisheries say 23.5c is suitable) or less for trout to survive so long as it dosent stay too warm for long periods.

Troutmaan --so your car can do 6500 rpm but redlines @ 5000 do you avoid blowing your engine and sticking @ 5000 or do you run at 6500 until it blows?

..... another way, to err on the side of caution, than on the edge of disaster!!!...
.....Tell ya what, grow your trout in what ever temp you want, stress the shit out of them!!! I like to eat happy fish .
..and I suggest that if anyone intends growing trout out over the next 8-9 months it is nearly time to put them in...
happy trouty...

ps king whatever... maybe I didn't want to mention their name for some reason...
C1.... oh and they're about 45 mins from here but you might go thru nannup via pemby... lived here 17y been hanging here 30y