Aflockalypse

[tripletfeb]

I HIGHLY recommend this book for anyone that is(like I am) looking into herbs for medicinal uses. Excellent information that is broken down so us simpletons can understand it. I got mine from Amazon. I also recommend watching Raincountry on youtube. Heidi is very knowledgeable about herbs and a wonderful person to watch. Now is the time to gather the information, not when the SHTF

 

[AGeese]

Do you have any recommendations on fish that breed quick? I was thinking of breeding guppies for my future ducks. Would that work?

Do you have a stock tank already set up? If so, what is your setup?

Guppies breed like crazy, I had some for a short period, you could sell them. My White Clouds were prolific, but they seemed to be short lived with a couple of exceptions. I'm going to choose a minnow. The stock tank is currently empty until I get around to filling it. I'll need some new medium first for the substrate.

 

[GlicksChicks]

Guppies breed like crazy, I had some for a short period, you could sell them. My White Clouds were prolific, but they seemed to be short lived with a couple of exceptions. I'm going to choose a minnow. The stock tank is currently empty until I get around to filling it. I'll need some new medium first for the substrate.

Do you know how fast minnows breed?

 

[AGeese]

Not in particular other than the white clouds which all I can say is they were quick. Throw some water sprites in there and watch them get wild nipping the roots and frolicking. I kept cichlids, and had various types of schooling community fish.

Mostly tropical, I want to move away from that for coldwater. Which probably means I'll get white clouds again because they're fun

 

[GlicksChicks]

Not in particular other than the white clouds which all I can say is they were quick. Throw some water sprites in there and watch them get wild nipping the roots and frolicking. I kept cichlids, and had various types of schooling community fish.

Mostly tropical, I want to move away from that for coldwater. Which probably means I'll get white clouds again because they're fun

The only minnows I have ever had were ones i netted in a creek and kept with my goldfish

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

Mosquitofish are about the most prolific I know of when kept in small ponds.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

I HIGHLY recommend this book for anyone that is(like I am) looking into herbs for medicinal uses. Excellent information that is broken down so us simpletons can understand it. I got mine from Amazon. I also recommend watching Raincountry on youtube. Heidi is very knowledgeable about herbs and a wonderful person to watch. Now is the time to gather the information, not when the SHTF
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Looks like my library has it, so I can take a look.

 

[AGeese]

The only minnows I have ever had were ones i netted in a creek and kept with my goldfish

That works, I am considering baitfish minnows I can get locally too or I might do both. the WC's are ornamentals and should be enjoyed in an aquarium as opposed to a stock tank (me thinks)

Mosquitofish are about the most prolific I know of when kept in small ponds.

How about those Florida Flagfish you guys got down there?

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

That works, I am considering baitfish minnows I can get locally too or I might do both. the WC's are ornamentals and should be enjoyed in an aquarium as opposed to a stock tank (me thinks)


How about those Florida Flagfish you guys got down there?

I have not known flagfish to be prolific. They’re a kind of “ditch” fish that are common in roadside ditches and weedy, shallow, woods ponds. I use to turn them loose in my koi ponds and I never saw them reproduce in that setting.

Mosquitofish are the go-to for pond reproduction. They’ll absolutely take over a pond if they don’t have predators present. You can net dozens with random scoops of a net. If I was going to use small minnows as tiny feeder animals, I’d dig a small pond, about like what you’d want for a modest goldfish pond, and fill it with vegetation and mosquitofish.

Speaking of which, some aquatic weeds are excellent livestock forage and will grow at a rate of inches per day in hot weather. We have an introduced grass here called hydrilla that is very healthy for animals to eat and grows so fast you have to remove large clumps of it weekly out of a small pond to keep it from choking the pond out. Should be a good forage for chicken coops. Very high in calcium.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

Concerning pond fish for human consumption, I have 2 6/10 acre ponds. One is stocked only with largemouth bass, bluegill, and mosquitofish. The other is the same but also mixed with various woods and trash fish such as warmouth, mudfish, and chain pickerel. Those fish access the pond in periods of high water where the pond connects to feeder creeks.

The strict bass/bream pond produces an almost infinite amount of fish for eating. Even the bass reproduce as such a high rate I have to constantly catch out the smaller, eating-sized ones. The larger ones are released for sport and as the spawners.

The pond mixed with trash fish is of low fish productivity. It also gets hit by woods predators a lot such as otters. I intend to introduce bullhead catfish to see how they fare under the constant predation.