Backyard Aquaponics
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feed a little anyway, the bacteria will eat it eventually, if nothing else will. This should keep the ammonia up enough.

Your fish may not eat, but your bacteria will die without food. then you'll have to ramp up slowly in summer, to avoid ammonia and nitrite spikes.

Not to mention your plants not doing so well...

BYAP initiation guide book...qualification subjects:

1) gravel washing
2) having traumatic experiences with under-sized fingerlings and cannibalistic barra

commercial enterprises are exempt

I picked up some silver perch yesterday, they are still smallish but have been taking artificial food for the past fortnight.
No losses so far

what size feed are they on and where did you score the feed? whats the average size of the fingerlings?

cheers

They're about 1" and eating dust, the breeder sold me enough to get them up to taking something slightly larger

BF
Are you needing SP feed?
I am thinking of getting another 20kg bag ( I think 20kg) of SP food. I have been slowly working my way through it for the last 14 months. Never used anything else from small fingerling size.

Where do you get your feed fizzyj? The hatchery man tells me you can't buy sp feed in WA, he has to bring it over from the east.

got a friend in the wholesale petshop supply business. he gets it from a place in forrestfield.
if you take a drive up tonkin hwy to roe hwy, you will smell something that smells like vomit that has been fermented for a few days or red rooster on a good day.
I think that is the place.
I will have a look for the details, but I think I tossed them a few months back, however I have posted their details here a long time ago.

See picture in this link
http://backyardaquaponics.com/forum/vie ... highlight=

Details in the picture are:
3150 Gt Eastern Hwy Glen Forrest WA
9298 8111
I believe they do 3 sizes of SP specific food.

thanks for the offer fizzyj but i have enough feed for a while. just need to think about getting more in a couple months. hopefully by then there should be more in.

Thanks Fizzyj, I will chase it up from here

Details in the picture are:
3150 Gt Eastern Hwy Glen Forrest WA
9298 8111
I believe they do 3 sizes of SP specific food.

Followed this up, thanks for the info; they do in fact have 2 sizes of SP specific food, 2.5mm & 4mm @ $31.oo per 20Kg bag for anyone interested

Rod, Do they have any problems selling to the public?

None at all, have just come back from there, the price was $30.10 per bag, they even loaded it into the car for us.