Backyard Aquaponics
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You are quite fully Bullwinkle. My wife has the same idea you do call all the fish the same name. But she does it so I will not eat them. Does not work though.

Just as a side note here is a picture of some slightly bigger eggs dropped on me yesterday. Blackheaded python eggs about 84mm in length.



Sorry I could not resist.

Just found in your yard, or something you wanted?

Either way, an interesting thing to have a bucket full of.

No they are from my breading pair of Black Headed Pythons. I have been trying for two years to get these two to breed. Now we see if they all hatch.

I counted around 60 hatchlings in my aquarium today, so things are looking pretty good.

Unfortunately I'm also seeing a nitrite spike. I've been doing 25% water changes every day using water from the aquaponics system (where the eggs were laid/layed (spelling?))

I change the water and it reads .5, then the next day it reads 1.0 but there is never any reading on the ammonia.

Nitrates are over 100, so I'm guessing the nitrite to nitrate beasties are there.

Perhaps there are just a stack more ammonia to nitrite beasties so I never see ammonia.

I did a thorough search of the media (clay balls) in the bottom of the tank, and found 5 hatchlings well underground, so there is the potential for there to be many more within the rest of the tank. ie the search was just the front glass. For this reason, I cant clean out the tank because I might crush their tiny selves.

I'm off to re-read all that stuff I've forgotten.

I've been collecting gold goldfish eggs and dropping them into my desktop aquarium for a few days now, but the population of fishies grew to around 80, then seemed to stay the same.

The guy from my local aquarium shop who's business name starts with "A1" so you you know they're the real deal (and I think I actually mean that when it comes to aquarium shops for some reason) says the fry might be eating the new eggs I drop in every day.

BASTeRDS!

Read that last line again!!!

I'm all for cannibalism in the right environment and all...(shipwrecks, plane crashes, summit meetings etc), but my fry eating 10 days of my fry is just taking it too far.

So now I connect another air hose to another bucket each day, and trim the eggs off the water weed using my reading glasses, a magnifying vIsa, a straw hat, a pair of scissors, my iPhone, and the "stuff you should know" podcast.

Twice a day.

It takes around an hour each day.

I really need to nip the cannibalism in the bud.

And that podcast is worth an ear. (skip the first 50 or so episodes)


And I also discovered a yabby that still lives under the clay ball media. (in the under-gravel filter space)It's around 2cm long and of the perfect size to eat the fish fry that can navigate all the way down to it through the gaps in the clay balls.

If ever there was a lump of posts indicating what you should not do to raise golden comets in an ex yabby filled aquaponics(ish) environment, then this is it.

Don't do all this stuff, and you'll be fine.

I just bought 10,000 seamonkey eggs on ebay.

and ... sleep!

I awoke the day before yesterday to find my biggest new fish with one of the small ones in his mouth.

He didnt even look guilty.

Now he's in "plastic box with suction caps" jail.

He's thrice the length, and perhaps ten times the weight (if weight existed in fishland) of the smallest in the tank. And he looks like a fish where all the others look like a pair of eyes with a gelatinous tail.

Now that he's in jail, the others seem to be catching up.

I suspect he's been eating a lot of fry.

...

So...

In my little desktop aquarium I have perhaps thirty fish, plus one in jail, and in my large oval glass baking tray, I have around a hundred or so new fry.

I'm feeding them a shaken not stirred mixture of fish food flakes and water. I shake it until it creates a milk in the water like milk might. The biggest particle I've seen them take is around the size of a single particle of white flour.

It looks a lot like a few drops of milk in a teaspoon of water to my 49 year old eyes.

I wonder if my neighbors freak out when they see me through my kitchen window in the middle of the day with a super bright LED torch in hand and a magnifying visor on my forehead, messing with wet strips of shade-cloth and waterweed. (looking for eggs)

Actually I don't wonder so much... I'm sure they are doing their own thing

Gotta not worry so much about what the neighbours think bro :]

But if you can't make peace with their judgemental stares roaming around the house in the nude will help, will certainly get them to stop peeking.

Or start, either ways its a step forward.

I'm not sure the kids next door would appreciate it so much.

It's the stuff of nightmares

I made a sea monkey!

Just the one so far.

As of this moment it looks exactly like the un-hatched eggs next to it, but it moves around.

Hi Bullwinkle,

Here is something that may help with your seamonkeys.

Very easy to make and will help a lot.

http://www.solidgoldfish.com/2013/11/ea ... chery.html

Thanks Continuum, that looks like it will work well.

I have just navigated here from my desktop with nothing open, using voice recognition, searching for this forum, and creating a new post. I am quite happy.

My sea monkeys are all dead.

But I have a shipload of eggs.

Using vocal fry, and speaking like a valley girl, will get you everywhere when using voice recognition.

Aussie Aussie Aussie or a toy or!

I've beenbull WINKLEII

Been working on a solution for someone who can't use their hands and is spending some time in hospital. so far I am pretty impressed.

Mayors eat goats and dozy oats and little am is eat ivy

[who can argue with that! Everything except this line has been navigated to, opened and dictated hands free. It's the future! ]

do I need to change the water in a sea monkey farm ?

Voice recognition is definitely the bees knees, Google has some leaps forward in that field.

change something mate maybe what your drinking