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ok kfg, thats cool, i thought you were worrying about bankrupting yourself, an earator will ease your mind for sure, itll pay you back 5 times.
id defintaly leave em there in the wall. as you go along youll add a heap of things that allow you to exercise better control. it might be that you hardly use them but one day youll be glad theyre there, one day it will suite you to fill a pond with water from next door pond. no great advantage now but later..
it may be that the other farmer runs all ponds at the same time, i mean if you harvested the middle one your connection would be lost. its not something id do as a running system but a helpful tool to use sometimes.
whatever reason he does it, it probably works for what he does.
i think exchange of information between farms keeps things getting better. its allways good to hear what others are doing and what its getting them.
some people tend to lock emselves off and do lots of things the hard way.
the thing youll find in aquaculture is everyone has different experiences and ways of tackling a problem and everyone thinks their idea is best, until they see or develop better. some will swear on one thing and others will swear against it. find what works for you. keep exploring what is going on and can be acheived. remember all farms are different.
a farm should suit your outcome.
if you know nothing much then everything is like.. oh i never wouldve known that.. i never thought of that..what was that word again??
already on this site since you began the project you wouldve come somewhere.
im not the one to give you the best advice in the world but ive worked on a few different farms and i like what i like and id rather hear your doing things easier than harder.
i like to keep a pond seperate in its own water, i like to run em at different ages to suit markets, i like to harvest easily and fill quickly, drain quickly. dry quickly.
also somtimes i like to pump some water from one pond to another..sometimes.
youve made me want to start a farm from scratch and do it the rightest way i know to help make life easier. i dont have that much cash though even though it would pay me back a whole heap and make farming life so much easier.
keep plodding along and keep an ear out for what everyone has to say and think about its purpose on your farm and how it fits in with what you want to do and what you can manage.
if your farm gets disease it wont be becaue you linked the water or sent some disease to another pond. think prevention yes, thats a secondary prevention measure, block em off once your full anyway. i think you still dont get what steve means about the pipes, maybe ive got it wrong.
it does allow you to stop water flows when you want. which will be most of the time..
if you get disease and you must do something. youll get it all under control once you have a feel for what happens in a pond.
really if you watch your fish and the water you shouldnt even get it.
that why id suggest you check on others peoples stockings.. serious farmers stcokings and feedings would be overboard for you just now.
thats why im suggesting to pull back from their rates.so you dont get dissapointed right away.
get a cheap test kit and monitor your crops water. plot it on a graph, when you see it go out of range youll notice the fish go weak within a few days.
youll see em go off thge food. spin, flash behave differently!! in some way before they have it set in fully. thats when you do something about it.
then after you know that sign, the trick is to try and avoid it going out of their range. stop the over feeding. do water changes .. that type of thing.
check your air, ph, temperature, alkalinity. ammonia. plot them all and youll get a real understanding quite fast.
ive noticed disease to hit around week 6 to 8 for me, only earlier if stocking and feeding was ridiculously high. that disease was stopped with air and better watching of feedings. i know in that case it wouldnt infect another pond unless the other pond was overfed or highly stocked.
however diregard what i say here on this and manage them on an individual basis, that will tell you exactly whats going on.
dont be afraid to look up info on fertiliser rates and all that type of info that steve pulls out of his bag of tricks. i think if you practise half of the stuff youve learnt on this site youll do quite well.
so now go get crackin on the first crops.
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