Goldfish Scramble of the day

The line up:

Wet:

6 duck eggs

1 can albacore tuna

1/2 pound salad shrimp

1/3 cup edamame

1/2 cup green beans cooked

3.5 oz package Gerber nature select baby food carrots

3.5 oz package Gerber nature select baby food peas

6 cloves garlic

Dry:

1/3 cup rolled oats

1/3 cup baby rice cerial

1/3 cup wheatgerm meal

1/3 flax seed meal

3 packets gelatin

1 tablespoon garlic powder

1 tablespoon paprika powder

Blended in several batches and homogenized, then boiled. Three 2 cup bags and one 1 cup bag.

A 2 cup cake after boiling draining.

The cake and my new potato ricer. Much nice than the garlic press.

Parchment on a cutting board with rice cake.

Goldfish scramble.

Several layers heading to the freezer.

The potato ricer.

Happy 40th Mark (Fishes2Catch)

A SXK 11/10 (RanchuManiax) for the birthday boy.

A nice fish.

All dressed up for the party.
Now it's an even half dozen.

Reelcraft RV Hose Reel

Thanks to Craig's list for this amazing 35 foot retractable hose reel a steal @ $20! I'll mount it to the ceiling in the Fishroom. Just have to convert the female end to a male to reverse it's flow.

Ultimately it will have temperature mixed dechlorinated water once I can assemble that system. The system can handle city water pressure so unlike the python hose you can safely leave it under pressure and have a spray gun on the end. Just a slight tug and 35 feet of hose reels away.


The thing sells for $385 and has a $450 list price.


That must be some RV to spend that much just to keep your hose organized.

Suzuki x Kageyama 11/10 (Ranchumaniax)

SXK BBR and CBR.

Just moved to their much larger new plywood Ranchu tub. They are a little behind schedule due to an unavoidable week long fast which unfortunately was just as they were hitting a growth spurt after recovering from a bout of costia (ichthyobodo). Always quarantine new fish!

Plywood Ranchu tub: SXK 11/10 (Ranchumaniax)

The first tub is complete. Its plumbed to the central recirculating system and inhabited by a dozen SXK 11/10 (Ranchumaniax).

Its nice to have a square foot per fish.


2 inch main recirculating water line feeding a one inch vertical manifold that supplies water to each of the three shelves.

The tub is plumbed into a 2 inch drain line returning water to the main sump.  The sump is plumbed to drain via the 2 inch drain line. Its nice to have sumps plumbed to drain so they don't overflow if tap water is left running a little to long.

Plywood Tub: Filling

Plugged and play.

Plywood Lined Ranchu Tub

Plywood lined Ranchu Tub:

23/32 4 ply exterior grade sheathing plywood

1 1/4 deck mate screws

Behr high gloss exterior "black forever"

Pond liner

Stainless steel staples

Make the box and paint it black.

Drill the bulkhead hole before you paint.

Fold the liner in to a box, put it in the plywood tub

Do a large water change to fill with water for a perfect fit.

Clamp into place and mold to the box as you go. Cut the corners to allow the excess to wrap over the sides of the tub.

Once the fit is perfect staple the extra liner to the outside of the tub with 5/8 inch stainless steel staples.

Once the fit is perfect use a razor to very carefully cut a hole in the liner to receive the bulkhead fitting. A little silicone will go a long way for a leak free connection.

Tighten the bulkhead with a home made one inch bulkhead tool. Trace the nut with a sharpie onto the end of a two inch schedule 40 pipe and sand out the excess with a dremmel.

Thread in the one inch street elbow for a finished tank ready to plug into the central system.

72 inches by 24 inches by 12 inches. Total Volume 80 Gallons will run at between 50 and 75 gallons depending on water depth.  Total cost about $35.

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Goldfish Scramble

6 duck eggs
1 can albacore tuna include water
1 large calamari steak
2/3 cup raw roller oats
2/3 cup cooked rice
2/3 cup raw edamame
2/3 cup baby spinach
1/3 cup flax seed meal
1/3 cup wheat germ
2 tablespoons paprika
2 tablespoons granulated garlic
2 tablespoons fish sauce
6 cloves raw garlic

Goldfish Salad: Dreaming of Spring

My main live food cultures are done outside year round other than winter.  Everything is co cultured and I call it goldfish salad.  It consists of greenwater production of mosquitoes, bloodworms, glass worms and seasonally fades to blackwater and duckweed along with the various mix of bugs that changes with the season.

I use 100 gallon Rubbermaid tubs to co culture bugs and duckweed.  The mix of bugs changes through the season and the maturity of the tub.  I fill the tub up, put in some oak leaves, wheat straw, urine and mucked up duck water from their water bowls.  You need to get a good ratio of nitrogen (duck muck, urine etc) and carbon (straw, leaves etc.) or the system won't bloom.

Daphnia/moina are the early bloomers which usually show up on their own but are sometimes added from another culture.  As the season and maturity of the tub produces various mosquitoes, bloodworms, glass worms and etc take off.  Their peak seems to be June/July before it gets to warm and again in the fall.  At peak times I can take several tablespoons of pure bugs out.  When the duckweed is in the mix it can be much more being half bugs and duckweed.  I try to keep the duck weed harvested to keep it and everything else growing at maximum rates.  Seems about 50% duckweed cover is best, more than that and everything starts to slow down a bit.  When copepods start taking over I either restart the tub or mess with the nitrogen carbon mix to get things going again.

My major live food development this year was that daphnia/moina do not need green water to be productive.  Here in Oregon I get green water from Feb March to June in several different blooms and then again in the fall.  I used to rely solely on this for bug food.  What I learned this year is black water is much easier to make and keep going.  It's black from tannins but it produces the reddest daphnia you can imagine.  They are feeding on bacteria that thrive in the black water.  The mix above will give you good greenwater blooms but once those pass seasonally the black water takes over.  So we're trading the greenwater for the duckweed that takes over when the sun is out and things warm up.

New Years BBR and CBR in the Goldfish Garage

The fish are Itoh (Hater) 11/10, Hattori (Hater) 11/10, Sazuki x Kageyama (SXK) (RanchuManiax)