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#13371 12/19/05 08:35 PM
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Bruce :

How are the hot tub batch of YP and their kin the cold tub group? \:D Any new developements? How is your better half and boss of the house taking the new residents ?
















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Great news for cold tub perch......not so hot for the hot tubbies.

After over two months at the farm I still haven't had a floater. Unfortunately that is not the case for the fish at home. Each of the last three days I've found a perch that, to the best of my abilities of perception, was not "asleep", but maybe just a little dead. \:\(

I decided that I must have water quality issues so I relocated the home yellow perch back to the farm. I think my wife was killing them as I slept.....maybe she's been fishing for them with conventional hooks instead of the circle hooks I gave her for Christmas last year....


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You know, Bruce, I was really having a tough time thinking of a last gift to give my wife for Christmas this year. Thanks for that idea.

Circle Hooks it is!! Well, my shopping is done.

I got a new digital fish scale for my 16 month old daughter. She likes to stack toy blocks a lot, so I know she's really going to love the scale.


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"She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."

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Sunil,
You are an incredibly insightful and thoughtful husband and father....your family is truly blessed. I hope they appreciate this. ;\)

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Bruce :

What are the YP getting (or wanting) for Christmas ? A new tub , some high prot. food , a temp. controller , adjustable lights ,a bag of worms. I don't think they like circle hooks or hot tubs. How did the return trip/transplant go?
















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I'm attempting to go where no Pondmeister has gone. I'm going to try to get video of the yellow perch feeding tomorrow thanks to my brother and webmaster Jason. I'll try to post a link if we're successful. Stay tuned.

For Christmas, the yellow perch get live nightcrawlers....and coal in the stockings of the slowest growers.


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What a tyrant you are, Bruce. Poor Yellow Perch getting coal in his stocking when all he wanted was a new home in the new aquarium at your office.


Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:"
"She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."

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Bruce showed the YP "Finding Nemo." Now the last place they want to go is an aquarium in a dentist's office.


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After seeing " Finding Nemo " I can see the YP now, pen in pelvic fin :

We the YP in order to form a more perfect YP union, to ensure a domestic supply of nightcrawlers , to secure to ourselves and our cohorts freedom in the big pond, do hereby declare , among other things , that all hatchery men will be well read on Hatchery Management prior to starting an RAS and in all events before killing a million fish.

Ben Frankfish
George Washington Yellowperch
Tomas Perchason
John Adams Freeperch
Madison Fast Grower
..... et al
\:D \:D ;\)
















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VIDEO CLIP OF YELLOW PERCH PROJECT!!

Windows Media Player capabilities required.

http://www.bizfunctional.com/wipers/videos/videos.asp#

Click on Po'Boy, watch, and give me some input please!!


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Perch Porno!

Quick! How to do I delete the history? When the wife finds this I'm in deep doo-doo!

Man Bruce I'm worried about ya! \:\(

Seriously that was really cool. \:D


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Bruce :

That was GREAT !!! The YP are sure active. What is the water temp? How are the ones who moved into your house and got kicked out after first being boiled alive? \:D \:D I may have to start a Bruce envy post -- I am just starting to post pics. and you are making movies with a sound track and including future stars. Soon they will be up there with Sunil's famous and smart SMB. :p
















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Bruce, don't ever let anyone tell you that you're not a freak; You are. But you're a nice freak.


Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:"
"She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."

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Bruce, don't ever let anyone tell you that you're not a freak; You are. But you're a nice freak.
I second that! With that music going I kept expecting to see a perch pull off a fin and toss it into the air. Or at the very least wrap itself around a pole (or rather a water hose). \:D

On a serious note that was GREAT footage. I am impressed (and severely humbled). \:\)

Deb


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My water temperature is 58 degrees F. I haven't sampled a fish in awhile, but I think virtually every fish (90%) is over 4 inches now, with quite a few around 5 inches. They really look healthy and are in great body condition. All fish that made the transport back to the farm are alive, although it is impossible to differentiate between them and the others so I don't know how quickly they went back on the feed.

By my calculations there are 220 fish including the ones that spent some time sucking on city water.


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Checked the yellow perch today. Still haven't encountered a single floater! When cleaning the tank, which takes about ten minutes, I took out 24 of the smallest ones. Interesting thing, though, is that the small ones that are coming out now look REALLY healthy. They were solid 3.75-4 inchers. Definitely had been using feed. I took them into town and traded for 1 case of Diet Mountain Dew with my partner. \:\)

196 fish left.


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It must be that new smaller feed Bruce! ;\)



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Did I forget to mention that I 'doctored' that feed a little bit? A little growth hormone so they would grow big enough to eat your Hybrid Stripers. \:D ;\) \:D

Next fall you can count me in for raising a few perch. I had my 6 gal. hot water heater hooked up in my shop yesterday. I am going to have to have you get me some of the 'hot tubby' perch. I think I am going to shoot for 65 degree water temps. My shop will run at 40-45 at all times so a slow trickle from the hot water heater might bump it up to the 60's.


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Those perch might grow much faster in 65 degree water. That sounds ideal. Are you going to let the tank runoff go to your pond?


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I would like to run the water off to my pond but I don't have a good way of doing that YET. I am thinking about how I can accomplish that.


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I just had an idea. I need to build another pond so that I can send the runoff into it. \:D


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Got a note in the mail today that says the power to our farm will be turned of for a "period of time".

I currently don't have a battery powered aerator, nor do I have the time to go out and babysit the YP tomorrow. Not sure what to do. I guess I'll try to run out there tonight and turn the feeder off and increase the water flow so it's as fresh as possible at the time of shutoff.

I'm really nervous!


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Bruce, is there anyway you can at least spray the water into the tank, or make is spout into the air before hitting the tank?

Maybe try to make a ghetto horizontal aeration system to get by?

EDIT: I re-read your post. Does the water turn off without power?


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Can't you get a gas generator and check it (or have someone check it) once or twice a day?


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Yes...the water AND aerator turn off when the power goes off. I wish I had a gas generator, but it's one of the few things I haven't scrounged up yet. I just wish I knew how long a period of time it will be off. Ten minutes wouldn't hurt anything.

Two hours might be disastrous. \:\(


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