Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

the 440g was crumbed and fried, very nice. It made a good meal for the four of us, but we could probably go for 500g flesh, as the boy is eating everything at the moment with fish being preferred

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nice work J sure beats the hell out of buying fish from Who Knows Where.

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hhmmmmmmmm barbless eh?
I'll try that!

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Noli Illegitimi Carborundum

why not net them at feeding time instead of puncturing them unnecessarily?

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"have you ever seen a one legged man try to dance his way free...if you've seen a one legged man you've seen me"

big tank, little net

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ahhhhhh....so they dont congrigate at feeding time like trout?

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"have you ever seen a one legged man try to dance his way free...if you've seen a one legged man you've seen me"

not really, if you throw the food in one spot, they hit it so hard that it flies everywhere (all around the tank, across the greenhouse)

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With your tank Jaymie, I thought Axl would be in there with a mask, snorkel and spear

FIL just joked about the speargun

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I wouldda said a trawler n net

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"have you ever seen a one legged man try to dance his way free...if you've seen a one legged man you've seen me"

I gotta cast net! hee hee hee

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Noli Illegitimi Carborundum

if my trout are hungry (which they always are) i have to put the food in in 1/3 hand full lots if i just dump one handfull in the corner they all ram against the wall and a good portion flies back out of the water!

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The only tool you need is a paperclip

Actually all of the thrashing about yesterday with the net has resulted in even clearer water than normal. And we could clearly see that 440g is not the largest fish of the bunch

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What have you created.....?? Lol... Very nice....

Last week the sump pump stopped working, hummed but didn't pump HSM. Cancel all activities for the day. The Davey pump that we used to use for the sump was pulled out, cleaned, had a part replaced and wouldn't start HSM (already had one phone call in to Joel, and FIL)

FIL finally managed to get here by 3:30 "don't you try fixing my pump again" (Davey is his ) "why didn't you call me earlier?"

He got Davey fixed. Davey pumps a lot faster than the Ebara. A lot. I didn't want to muck around with the float levels because I'd just have to move them back again when the replacement Ebara arrived. This has meant that at a certain point in the cycle Davey was refilling the tank at the same rate that Bertha was trying to empty it The big grow beds spent a lot of time flooded over the last week. The nasturtiums haven't enjoyed that at all

The new pump arrived yesterday (in between school runs, running Melb Cup raffles, school and swimming) it was installed late yesterday afternoon.

With the pumps being off kilter, the total water level has been lower than usual, so I bought some Ager and have added about 1000L. The water level is now up where it should be

The fish have had a week of very fast water and have been ravenous ALL the time. They were a bit quieter today, but that could also have been because of Bugs

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