ThommoPerth System

ThommoPerth

Having Silver Perch fingerlings delivered on Friday by Troutman.

dandm

Great! They will probably be quiet in this weather, but still great to get started!

ThommoPerth

Fish delivered this morning and all going well:)

earthbound

Keep an eye on them in this cold weather Thommo, I've seen a few people lose silvers just after transporting in the winter time. Do you have some salt in the system just in case?

ThommoPerth

earthbound wrote:

Keep an eye on them in this cold weather Thommo, I've seen a few people lose silvers just after transporting in the winter time. Do you have some salt in the system just in case?

Salt? no not yet, the fish looked happy enough this afternoon when I checked, but maybe I WILL chuck in a kilo tomorrow, well later today actually..........

ThommoPerth

I think I need to get a few IBC's or water tanks to store water in for the summer months. Will look into that soon.

ThommoPerth

Plants after 1 week with fish in the tanks. The fish are Silver Perch fry, smaller than fingerlings and not feeding yet, I suppose it is to cold for them. Haven't lost any yet so must be doing it right so far.

ThommoPerth

Had these delivered today for collecting and saving rain water for the summer. 3 delivered fully washed for $330, not a bad deal I thought, they had hand cleaner in them.

1 will go near the house to collect the water and 1 will go on the retained wall where the dead tree is in the next pic. The other 1 will end up as a grow bed or a fish tank as I am toying with idea of a separate system to have Barramundi in over the summer.

ThommoPerth

First dead fish today.
Don't ask about PH etc because I don't have a test kit yet.
So now I have salted my system to 1 to 3ppm.
The fish is a Silver Perch and I noticed it this afternoon, it felt a bit slimy to me, other than that I do not have a clue, this is all new to me.

ThommoPerth

Ph test 3 Jul 2012 seems ok to me but what do I know???

ThommoPerth

Just another update 17 Jul 2012

Some more bits and pieces to, i am going to make a Pump In Solid Lifter (PISL) out of these. MOre to come on this.

The FT.

The GB's and FT.

One final shot. Veges not growing much because the Silver Perch are just Fry/Fingerling size and not eating.
Note the green IBC to go where that dead stump is for water during the summer to top of FT.

Charlie

Lookin great champ!

Wait till summer comes and BANG... your system will explode with vegies :thumbleft:

ThommoPerth

Can't wait

ThommoPerth

BRRRRRR 9.3˚ in my FT this morning!!!!

earthbound

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Some more bits and pieces to, i am going to make a Pump In Solid Lifter (PISL) out of these. MOre to come on this.

So we have PISL's now? :lol:

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