Trout Fingerlings

[phillo65]

Hi guys,
Does anyone know where I can get some trout fingerlings? I live in central Victoria. Is it too late in the year to get some? What are they worth roughly? Thanx

[fishfood]

Na not to late try Australian Rainbow Trout Farm 26 Mulhalls Road Macclesfield
Also ballarat trout farm they have plenty you pay according to size $1.00 to $2.50

[jimdeb]

Ballaraat Trout farm is open Saturday mornings 8 to 12.

[fishfood]

And during the week 8 to9

[phillo65]

Does anyone have a phone number. Thanx for the help guys. Always reliable.

[fishfood]

Yep macklesfield 0359684711 Ballarat0353341220

[phillo65]

Thanx Fishfood. I will give them a ring today.

[phillo65]

Hi guys,
I rang the man in ballarat and he says he has yearlings for sale. My question is how many should I get for a 800 Lt tank. Also I am having trouble in that my pH seems to be rising. I got a reading of 8.4 the other day which I was very surprised at as my pH normally sits around 7.4. I dosed it with white vinegar and got it back to 7.6 but I checked again today and it is back up to 8.2. Why?
I have recently installed a UV light that a friend had on his goldfish pond and no longer needed. He said it is good for sterilizing the water. Can this be causing my pH spike? I intend on picking up the trout on Saturday morning so I need answers to my problem ASAP. Thanx

[fishfood]

800 litres i would not go more than 40 the first year [ i went 50 the first time and have 100 now and 60 silver perch ] as for the ph we need to know more about your system to help [media ect pictures would be good]

[phillo65]

Thanx Fishfood,
My system has been running for over 6 months with no dramas.
My setup has two tanks, a small one (Approx 250 Lts) which is under the grow bed. The growbed consists of scoria which is well rinsed after 6 mths of use.
The second tank at the back is approx. 800 lts and is fed by a pump in the smaller tank and then overflows into the smaller tank. The pump also disperses water over the grow bed on a timer which on for 15 mins and off for 15 mins. This works between 7am and 11pm. There are airstones working 24 hrs in both tanks.
I have 18 small goldfish in the smaller tank and have recently (over a month now) added the second larger tank with the hope of using it for some food fish.
As I said earlier my pH was OK until the last week. I am taking some water in to test at work tonight with pH meter in case my test kit is giving me false readings. The only other change I have done is added the greenhouse over a month ago to try and keep the temp and weather under some kind of control.

[GaryD]

Hi,

I suggest that you dispense with the UV light. It won't contribute anything useful to your system. Aquaponics is an eco-system so you don't want/need to kill the micro-organisms that inhabit it. The sooner everything achieves a state of balance, the better.

GaryD

[phillo65]

Hi I took your advice and removed UV light from system. I have added 20 yearling trout from Ballarat yesterday. My pH has also settled back to 7.2 I will test daily for a while to keep an eye on it. Is there anywhere that I can get fish food from locally? Guy in Ballarat uses Barra food. I got a couple of kilo of #2 off him to start with.

[Outbackozzie]

If the protein of the Barra food is above 40% it will be fine.

If you want to find a local supplier of Trout food, you want to call:

Skretting Australia
Head office
26 Maxwells Road
Cambridge
Tasmania 7170

Tel: +61 (0)3 6216 1200
Fax: +61 (0)3 6216 1234

email enquiries:
enquiries.au@skretting.com

and ask them who the Vic distributor is. They wont sell direct to you unless its a pallet load.

PS - in WA it's Stirling Bulk Distributors in Tenterden.

[Laurie]

Hi Phillo.
I too got my second lot of trout from Ballarat last Saturday.
The Barra food they use is also a trout food, it does both.
The maker is Laucke Mills, Sturt Hwy. Daveyston, South Australia. Look up their website www.lauckemills.com.au & click on ' Distributors ' to find the nearest to you. Ballarat gets theres from The Haymarket, Ballarat.
Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Laurie.

[Tony]

If you want to find a local supplier of Trout food, you want to call:

Skretting Australia
Head office
26 Maxwells Road
Cambridge
Tasmania 7170

Finally..! Something local that is only 5 minutes drive from where I live.. Happy days. :D