Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

You spray water onto the shade cloth and it runs back into the tank cooling as it runs down the shade cloth.I originally got the redfin from a local farm dam but There wasn't many there this year.I hope to breed my own and get them onto pellets while very young.I had them breed this year but I lost them all.I think I know what I did wrong so I hope to do better this year.There is a bloke in Bunbury who feeds his redfin marron pellets but mine won't even look at them they have to have trout pellets.

Yer right.
Shade cloth is a good idea mate.
I've had 8 Redfin in my fish tank before grew them out to 200 mm and put them in a dam.
I catch table size Redfin all the time but not sure how you would get them to adapt.
How did u go about breeding them don,
If you don't mind sharing I would be very interested in trying it

The breeding was a accident,I had all these small ones in a tank and if someone had told me they would breed I would have said no.I noticed this white slime in the tank and I thought somebody must have spat a large blob of flem into the tank.When I got it out I noticed that there were hundreds of tiny little white things in it so I put in a glass aquarium.Next day all the eggs were moving and over the next few days all these little fish started to hatch.I had air going into the water and checked the ammonia and all was OK but after a few days they all died.When I went to clean the water out it smelt putrid so I seem to think that it doesn't pay to just rely on the tests alone but use your nose and whatever else you can.I have since used the same method to grow some other little fish but had a small 4MM hose feeding water into the aquarium every time the pump was going.The excess overflowed back into the tank.I never had any deaths .I am happy to work with anyone who wants to do something with them.If you have them in with some trout they get the idea if you want a feed you have to do what the trout do.

I catch bigger fish In my local river systems all the time, were they are a pest,,,
But if I put them in a esky with air rators I could get them in a tank and attemp to breed to eat, I'll try that I think