Backyard Aquaponics
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Tall man, did you paint your IBCs black to help warm them?

Hey r58,
I painted the GB's black to prevent algae (well painted one, the other was from a black IBC).
The FT IBC I didn't paint black, just wrapped in two layers of black plastic weed mat.
Cheers, T

Would live one of those conical drums r85. Purpose built for the job hey.
Thanks kevy, appreciate the feedback.
Have a great week guys.

Picked up my 30 baby Barra on Saturday. They've been taking pellet well from the first day. Sweet.

The Barra are eating really well now so I figured it's about time to cull the two perch that have been in the sump keeping the nitrification cycle going for the last couple months. There was a big old Jade which weighed 1026g (2.26lb) and a Silver which weighed 366g (0.8lb).
I saw the below Youtube vid showing how to skin and fillet perch without scaling or gutting so gave that a go.



I can definitely improve. I let the knife run too deep on the first cut along the backbone so lost some flesh which came off with the skin. But I think it's an excellent technique and I'll improve at it. The second fish I did better job.
It makes cleanup very easy. No scales everywhere and no guts.





So that's dinner tonight

Now that was yummy
Jade on the left, silver on the right.
And one fillet of each still in the fridge.

yummo

But wheres the Tomato sauce..Looks good TM..

Looks great. Nice fish


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Nice work T, I personally have not scaled a fish in probably at least 20 years, and I fish quite a bit in the summer months. I do remember when I was pretty young that my father made me scale some fish that I had caught... I think he did it just so he could enjoy how much of a pain it was... he has always enjoyed laughing at me when I do something that he knows how to do better... then I learned how to filet fish... so much easier than scaling them! It does get a lot easier with practice... really all of the fish that I catch here (other than catfish) once you get a feel for it you could probably filet them with your eyes closed because the knife just glides along where it needs to go. Catfish I still filet the same way, they are just a little harder to do, but I still filet them to remove the skin then just cut out the mud vein and good to go.

Thanks guys.

Good to know rininger, I'll keep at it and get better