Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

they ate what u saw me chuck in the tank and i havent added anymore.im thinkin i might let em go for a few days without feedin em n let the tank cycle...oh and i cleaned the foam shit in the aeration filter u altered the venturi on and i gots oxygen bubble galore lol..oh and they like to eat bronze comets and pull their tails off..i mean right off

Trout get my vote as been the funnest to feed and the best looking small edible native fish

steve i would even go as far as sayin get bronze comets to cycle the system then go for trout...... is funny how the stuff i have read online sayn 9 degrees is the lowest critical temp but the dudes at maccles were runnin at 6 degrees.........there is definitely hope for us melbournians lol

i think im might go back in a week or 2 with u to get more as the ones we got will be ready to eat in around 8 weeks roughly esp when 98% of what they eat goes towards their body weight

so did they just maul the comets or did they actually eat them?

mauled n kinda shredded..nemo is now a.....well youve seen the banners the footballers run thru at the start of a game...kinda ribbons flappin around lmao................oh and we have seen atleast 2 males, the bottom jaws gave it away

you do know that if this trout thing works out i'm gonna build a raceway for them in the backyard and breed them, dont you? LOL

yeah man......the setup they had was so simple......and the aeration was a piece of cake....am still thinkin bout those law changes regarding transportation of live fish lol

oh yeh, get this, fisheries victoria are bringing in a new law as of july 1st that anyone transporting live fish will require a licence / permit.

!@#$%^&*&)(&*^%$#@!

hehehehe.... Seems everyone is going for trout ATM, guess it's the cold weather..

a good move I recon.

What temps do they thrive at.....my tank was at 17c this morning rising to 20c....how long did you say they take to grow out.....must look at the availability of ice bags....could convert the swimming pool over....aaahhh, just remembered the loving wife (swimming pool ruled out)...rip down the GH :sigh:

14-17c, I did get mine thru a coupla summers but the cost of freezing water(deep freeze)2kg cordial bottles every 1/2 hr and when they're defrosted chuck em back in the ice box.
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PS I was eating mine @ about 4 months and they were huge at 9 months

these were at 6C in the ponds and still feeding like crazy.

They had them up to 21C with some losses last summer.

during summer my tank got to around 26C i think, but that was with no trying to shade it or anything.

Les, the pool should keep below 20C during the winter spring there even if only due to thermal mass.

check the temp of the pool, i'm curious.

The farm sell a few to people that want to grow them out in their pools during winter before re-using the pool as a pool for summer.

they have to get down to 3-5c to be to trigger milt, only what I heard.
dont know if it is fact.
they love eating at any thing lower than 19c.

i reckon if ya add more DO to ya pool etc somehow ........they will live a bit longer.

just been sittin watchn mine and ive got a good amount of DO and water flow, now that the lights are off they are all facing into the current lol.........oh and steve the 2 dodgey ones are rockin again.theyve all been swimmin into the flow of the aerated sub. pump and are lookin content........i reckon good DO levels are the key