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Who knew?

It looks like I might make it to fifty!

I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.

12 days to go

To any of you that have actually met me or talked to anyone that has, this may come as something of a surprise.

To celebrate, I'm going to take Geek2Nurse's advice and stop insisting that my doctors fight amongst themselves to share the nine pill per day limit I insisted upon.

It's open season from this day on.

Anyone got a prescription pad?

Thanks Geek2Nurse.

Probably a pretty good idea for a middle* aged man with a shipload of broken ship.



*is 50 still "middle" when you ship is all messed up?
I think I might be officially old.


AAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!

Congratulations on the upcoming birthday

Here's something you may find interesting, if you haven't already come across it.

Basically if you get 2 different yabbies and cross breed them you get all male offspring and they don't fight as much

http://www.fish.wa.gov.au/Documents/management_papers/fmp160.pdf

Not sure how you'd go about legitimately getting these 2 species of yabbies in SA but interesting all the same

Its weird like that - I have the same. In one of my tanks I put about 8 $1 yabbies, then there was just one big yabbie, then surprise surprise there were babies - then one night I saw another large yabbie. So yep they obviously culled till only a male and female were left.

I got a few of the babies out and put them in other tanks. Now simply see one or two....
I had couple bricks with 8 holes in them - and it was like an apartment block - then not..

Other night I saw a really small yabbie - an endangered speciman I suspect. So obviously the male and female met up again at some point. They seem to live at each end of a 1.8m tank. In addition there is a left over juvenile that seems to walk around quite happily.... so don't like the odds for the babies. I have house bricks (old style with round holes in them) and aquatic veg so the odd baby goldfish and baby yabbies get to a size. Rest participate in the great circle of life.


but yep - if you want to breed & raise in a tank/IBC then you would pretty much have to cage them.
Philosophical question is - does it then get a bit like battery hens after a while.....

Battery hens... yeah. I dont think I'm comfortable with doing that with anything, but as an experiment... well .... I'm a little flexible as a one off thing to test something. It does mean that it would be safe to put your best growers or whatever you were selecting for in a high risk mating situation, but I wouldn't want to raise them like this for their entire lives.

Interesting paper.

I wish there was a contact address.

I'm getting slack in my (new) old age. When I was only 48, I would have tracked everyone involved down and had a chat with them.

chase up some of the books/material by Robert McCormack (NSW).... this from his book is an eye opener...
there are some quotable quotes on page 54 to 56 of his book "the commercial yabby farmer" (you might get it on a Google preview if you search 'small tank hatcheries'. I think there would be an issue to image too much in a post but here is a snippet.


source: McCormack "the commercial yabby farmer" page 56.

It's not in my library network, so it doesn't exist

That looks like a nightmare to feed if each one of those bottles is carrying a yabby. I have a friend on the River Murray who's neighbour farms a lot of yabbies by just digging trenches and dropping in a pond liner. I'm told he doesn't feed them and just relies on algae and the weed some people call duckweed. As far as I know he adds water from the river, and that's about it. He also drops in a stack of cut PVC pipes. My friend is abut to buy a new property, and he wants to do some major water features, so I think I might try to convince him of the need for an aquaponics system, and a commercial yabby farm.

actually a breeding pair..... in reference to the previous battery hens.....
there are some basic rules that address social dominance and then they live together him & her....


mostly you don't have to for any dam sized storage and you get heaps... there are some very quirky social heirachy behaviours but they generally breed very well and with space the territorial aggression/cannibalism tends to be less (still exists but numbers are very large so you serve to make the bigger guys bigger which is not bad for eating purposes.

You should look up the book - it has some very interesting information that would tickle your philosophical mind.

Boy how the young whipper snappers go on about age and being over the hill at 50. I am complaining about getting to 70 this month.

I'll find it somewhere.

I need to get a bigger beard

That's what I might do next for my blog...

Beard grower.

This week I received three junk mails selling me insurance for over 50s already

Indeed the space between 60 and 70 seems to be the stage which thins out our ranks. I mean if you are gunna get dead, this seems to be the place. I'm only 62, if this Prednizone doesn't kill me I don't know what will.

I just noticed that a pizza delivery place near me is offering a drone delivery service.

I dont particularly crave guns, but I do have a drone I could fit a gaf to. I wonder if it's against any laws to pick up a pizza left lying around in the sky.

I'm pretty sure if I found an unattended pizza on the ground it would be open season.

Now that I think about it, I wonder if there's a law against just putting a large net above my house.

I need a blimp, and it seems you can buy two, and a lightweight net for less than the price of 20 pizzas.

Hey Bullwinkle,

...they are here to stay! Unfortunately....
And they are getting bigger by the minute, too!

Helicopter Pilot is a profession in extinction - not as fast as driving cars, but I predict in 30 years MOST any vehicle will be controlled by electrons or protons or neutrons, very view by neurons and none by morons.....

thjakits

They cut my own dose of that stuff by a third because it turns out I'm something called a "shunter".

I've never been called a "shunter" before.

At least I think that's what they called me.

I stopped paying attention years ago.

But I turned 50 today, and my mum gave me a robot jellyfish that swims around a fish tank in response to being nudged.

Which is not so unusual as you might think.

That's what you get for making it to 50 in my family...http://shop.australiangeographic.com.au ... dgets.html


You're a freak mum


At least a robot jellyfish is almost on topic which is pretty good for this thread


[edit from the future - actually the shunter bit is about Azathioprine, the Prednisone, they just give me like jellybeans]