| yep two months makes sense. its enough time for things to be "used" up in a cycle.
theres a lesson to learn from your mans mothers mistake. one trick you can use is to throw in some trash fish for a number of days as guinea pigs to check your water.
not everything needs to worry you if you use some knowledge to make you feel comfortable. it becomes simple when you do that.
i find when i do something ive done near to before, i think well these fish will be ok because i know this works. sometimes you take a risk and keep an eye out and if it works you add it to your experience for next time.
if pairs are kept together, naturally sometime or another they will be triggered to spawn and its very dissapointing when that happens when you dont have everything ready and timed for them. i need to breed over the whole breeding period maybe 5 months to have constant fish coming out at small sizes ove rthe year. it works for me for this long, for you it may only be neccessary to breed them early in the season once and then you can hold them together if space is not available for seperation. many people breed like that successfully in the backyard. if you have the space then keeping them apart for extended period does not affect them unless you leave it too late to spawn ( as the temps and daylength decreases). i dont know the temps over there but id go out on a limb to say that you could hold them apart for up to four months after the locals begin breeding that season.
might be worth me mentioning also.
hows your p[ond gonna be constructed? have you thought about tapers and a harvest trench or can you make one on the outside of the pond maybe?
ive seen too many ponds in my life that dont drain right and leave puddles of dying fish. have a think about it to make things easier. |