Backyard Aquaponics
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how did you loose a gold fish Mr B?

our goldy has been neglected in our indoors aquarium for 6 or 7 years.

I bagged it and took it to the aquarium store for an opinion, and he seemed to think the lump in its belly was a tumour so he gave me a new one.

Shiny.

But today I found another dead one so I'm not so sure. (no lump in this one though)

My 40 odd cm silver perch died, then these two goldfish. I'm guessing something is wrong.

And on a side note, I managed to put the necrophilia and bestially aside, and hand stripped the eggs out of her. There were quite a few, (ie hundreds not thousands) but they didnt have the normal stickiness that makes them adherer to surfaces. Perhaps they were immature. Don't even think about going there joke folks.

Anyway, whilst practising hand stripping eggs from my little dead goldfish, I accidentally put my thumb through the side of her body.

Which was not so nice.

It's been another bad day.

Tomorrow I go see the aquarium guy again

Hi B, this is Sejin. I am back. A long story for having been away.
I see you are having a fish problem.
I am also having a similar problem. Lost many large silver perch.
Now i am trying stick to gold fish until i feel more confident.
Trying to get about 20-30 large gold fish at the moment.

Just read about the death of your aunt. My condolence.
Actually my mother died this year. She had stroke three years ago, and that was my major reason discontinuing with internet writing as in BYAP.

Sorry to hear of your loss.

I've become really angry at death lately. Too many good people have died in my life and I'm starting to think it needs to stop.

Martin (and his two young daughters) lost his wife, their mum, and my friend of 30 years to cancer, I lost a close Uncle, a favourite Aunt, and a substitute father who was much better than my real one. .

Death is stupid.



What's up with your fish?

Sing out if you want me to come and have a look. I'll do better with the shoe culture thing this time I promise


I did a head count today and found 4 of my fish completely missing. I'm guessing the laughing I hear in the trees is the Kookaburras celebrating

I have a cover over my fishtank now


I'm sure there are some people who would like a to see a pic or two of your system now. I'm not sure if you left before seeing it, but you got a mention on a thread of best looking systems (I cant remember where, but someone with a better brain will know and point you to it)


Anyway. It's nice to [hear] from you again.

Welcome back!

getting older is difficult on us if we survive, watching parents go, mine as well in the last three years then friends, my brother a year ago, yeah I'm with you, death is very stupid.

I've been watching my yabbies in the little aquarium I bought as a hatchery. I dont think yabbies need a certain area, I think they need a certain boundary distance.

None of my tasty little critters use the centre of the tank, they spend 99.9% of their time running around the boundary and getting into fights.

If you made a yabby farm that was a long thin lake with alternating baffles from each side so the yabbies had to travel vast distances to progress a few feet, I think that perhaps they might meet less often.

I need a ... what's a marine biologist that does fresh water called? Anyway... I need one to do a PHD quick. These critters are growing fast!

charlie, if you are reading this, have you also noticed this boundary patrolling? Do you ever see your yabbies up close ie in a fish tank?

I see in the literature there are reports that bigger dams don't perform according to their extra size. This might be evidence of this boundary phenomenon. Perhaps in nature, all the food is falling in from the land, or in plant form, growing in the very shallow water where the light is good. Either way, it might be real, and as a result, it might be possible to grow a lot more by creating a maze. ie long thin yabby farms with alternating baffles from either side.

Or not.

Mrs Bullwinkle picked a winner for my blog's stupid competition!

Personally I liked the "how many unfinished projects in your shed" entry, but thankfully, it wasn't up to me

As a second prize I offer a dozen 1cm yabbies.

The prize went to someone named Mike. I really don't care and it was really annoying to deal with, but congratulations Mike. I'm sure you'll cope with my irritating demeanour Mike is someone who has read my blog for a while and has also been seen in the electronics section of BYAP when he had some stuff to offer so I'm pretty sure he will forgive my lack lustre announcement.

The prize was a MPPT solar charge controller that I bought on eBay after asking the seller if it could charge a 12v battery from 24v solar panels.

They said it could so I bought it.

They were wrong, so I sent it back.

When I sent it back to the seller eBay gave me my money back, and then a while later the package was returned to sender back at me. The company wasn't real and didn't exist at that address.

The result of this is that there is a reasonable chance that my prize is either an empty case with a few flashing lights, or (I think more likely) a box of industrial/nuclear waste that was considered better off being exported as a solar charge controller than left kicking around in the city on manufacture.

So...

Good luck and congratulations Mike

I seem to be over my 18 month long tummy ache, and for anyone that followed my blog,I've started blogging again. My main focus is on my 2000/4000km (we'll see) epic solar powered boating adventure down the mighty River Murray.

I did some water tests on the water, and it seems it has an unhealthy amount of nitrates so I plan on fishing/yabbying my way up and down the river and using NFT tubes to grow salad greens so I don't die of scurvy.

Is anyone a member of the "The River Murray Boat Owners Association"?

Does anyone think there is too much going on in this one post?

If any body follows your thread they should know by now there is always a lot going on.

Classic - i love kayaking/camping on the murray, have spent many weeks all up; a book called 'the murray river pilot' is a fantastic read, and a great companion to have along. Hope you can find a decent way of cooking carp tho! I was 4 days into a week long trip once when i donked a carp on the head with my paddle (on purpose) - but i broke the paddle! (the carp just swam away...) So there i was, stuck up a creek without a paddle...

We have yababies now too - but now im a bit lost on what to do with them, what do they eat even? I dropped in some ground up trout pellets (thats what i feed the goldfish fry) But they sure are quick! im glad they're not in with the trout tho - the trout are quicker

I think they are basically vegetarians in the wild, but like most vegetarian things go both ways a bit from time to time.

Having said that, mine go crazy for cooked prawn scraps, and flake fish food.

Hi Mr B
I am intrigued by your yabbies observations.
I am being serious.
Do they move to the left or to the right?
Here crayfish have one larger claw.
Logically, That is Crayfish logic. You would want your big guns on the outside.
SO left big clawed crayfish would, predominantly move to the right. The reverse for right clawed. I say predominantly because I assume some sort of patrolling. Like sentry duty.

They don't seem to have a preferred direction.

They also don't have the one big claw thing.

It looks like they are patrolling, but it might just be that they want to walk further than their aquarium will allow, or even that they want to get to something they can see through the glass.

Or just to escape.

Really?

I asked that once?

Ever read your own thread? Some of you are very entertaining

I'm slowly waking up, but I cant remember if I already asked geektonurse to look at my thread on trying to figure out my battery capacity based on my voltage reading under load, so...

Where was I going with this?

If I have a battery that we know is "empty" at 11.8v, without load, is there some way to see what the capacity is with a load of 19a and 35a?

ie can I look at my volt meter and say, "at x voltage, this means I have y runtime at 19 amps"

I really need a fuel gauge.


I'm trying to get my 2000/4000km solar boating adventure under way, and this is stumping me a lot. it seems the internet doesn't know the answer..