COD Close up!

Janice's Cod arrived today. Big! Huge! These Cod started out smaller
than your little finger, weaned to pellets and look at 'em now!

Janice has been published through her articles on aquaponics and has done a
masterful job in raising Cod, usually a difficult fish species to wean & grow out in her backyard. Great job Janice.

COD - reflections

T5 (Tank 5) showing the 'Christmas stocking' of Australian Murray Cod and the relection of the 'sump' and inlet pipes.

Scouting around- preparing for COD!

Started out with 10,000l of rainwater (full tank). Filled T4 & T5
(1000 ea) & 500l in the sump. Hosed out the Lab & ARC areas. Dod a
water exchange on T6 & topped up A1, A2, A3, A4. Fed all fish &
removed rubbish from ARC.
Fired up the pumps & started filter & protein skimmer, all good!
About 5000l left in the tank. It may rain?

A scout is always 'well prepared'!

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Good Clean Living/Working

Fed Yabbies- Tank 6 (T6), Aquarium 1 (A1) & Aquarium 3 (A3) Nursery Tank with peas.
Fed Silvers and Gold Fish (T6) with Silver Perch pellets.
Fed tropical fish (A2) with frozen 'Blood Worm' cubes mmmmm!
and
Fed Goldfish (A4) with gold fish flakes
* All good

Prawning, for the 'RAW' Prawn on the central coast!

Equipment: nets, lights

Location (snipping) a map from Google Earth _> into Paint -> to mark locations known & used by students in our class.

Cooking: humane cooking, use of salt for flavour and also to enable water to boil rapidly.

Second thoughts?

On third thought it's not bad! Allannah

Guinness Book of Records Attempt

A Guinness Book of records attempt, presented posthumously to this prawn.

Dissect 1 Prawn

GO Cody! Mung in!

More Poop!

Now that prawn was ready to poop before it was cooked.

Shelling- go girls!

Smell...??? Smells like prawns!

Deshelled... removing the poop vein

Great job, most people don't bother about removing it. Some do!

More

The '3' movement peeling of a prawn! Can you do it in less?

Not the RAW Prawn Brent?... mmm

The serious science of Aquaculture! Dissection, examination of external and internal parts of the prawn! Then eat 'em!!!

Great Day- even for fish!

Cleaned A1 glass internal and external- algae was beginning to grow. Scrubbed & cleaned filter- also A2, A3, A4.
Completed water exchange of A4, connected aeration and added female Yabbie, in 'berry' (from T6) to A4. A4 is one of our nursery aquarium.
All species do'n fine!
Next focus marine tanks.

* Progressed in setting up relocated computer systems in our LAB for research. A directional WiFi provides full network and Internet access. Thanks Ryan.
Begun additional trench irrigation in garden plots.