Silver pearch....Breeding

[scott]

Hi

i am just about to stock my dam with around 100 silver perch, i am wanting to know if they will breed in there or will i have to restock the dam every few years. and is $1.10 per silver the going rate?


thanks Scott

[GaryD]

Hi Scott,

It's unlikely that your silver perch will breed (and even if they did it's unlikely that they'd survive in the presence of larger fish) so re-stocking will be required.

$1.10 sounds about right for silver perch.

Gary

[scott]

thanks for replying gary,


would there be another native fish that would breed up in dams? At the moment i have in there are mullet, spangled perch and maybe a few bass. will be stocking it with gar aswell.



thanks Scott

[mcfarm]

I was confident that Silvers would not breed in a dam in southern NSW until we fished out one 45cm female full of roe - released her immediately. Admittedly our dam is fairly big about 120m x 50m and 12 metres deep, it also has protective weeds around the shores so maybe some fry will survive.

[GaryD]

Hi McFarm,

I must confess I had something smaller than you have in mind when I made the observation. I've lived in towns that could have fit in your dam.

I envy you having a water source like that. My mind wanders to things like Redclaw and all manner of good things to eat.

Do you irrigate or is it just for stock watering?

Gary

[mcfarm]

The dam that only has the silvers in it is the house dam and is purely decorative atm. It's below 3 other dams that cascade down to it after rain, two of the others are almost as big and have silvers and eel tailed catfish in them. The top dams gravity feed to the stock via a reticulated trough system.

I was told that only the cats would breed in the dams and I have them in 5 dams in total, but not in the house dam as we swim in that one and I didn't want to step on a cat fish

[kenners]

Tandanus Cat fish apparently may breed in a farm dam after a few years