Friday, April 27, 2012

April 27

Sorry for the delay in posting, but we have had major issues with our new tank.  The nitrate and ammonia levels are out of control, and we have been completing major water changes daily - in most cases 15-20 gallons.  In spite of the issues, those trout are doing awesome and growing fast.  We have been feeding them leftover fruit flies and pieces of redworms as well.   Release day is scheduled for May 9, and we are hoping to release about 230 trout.

Saturday, March 31, 2012

March 30

Lots of issues coming up this week.  We have nitrates and ammonia thru the roof in the large lab tank - we were getting readings of nitrates at 120 and ammonia close to 2.  We have been doing large water changes each day, and we are still high - and we moved 47 more fish back to the room tank to get numbers down.  I hope the tank is just trying to cycle, but worried that we might be getting excess nutrients into the tank.  I will keep updates coming...

Thursday, March 22, 2012

March 22

Our trout seem to be adjusting well to life in the new tank.  I will post pics soon, but we now have a 110 gallon stock tank that we are using for some of our fish.  We moved all fish over to the tank to clean out the aquarium, and brought 53 back.  We have a total of 251 brookies still in the tanks.

Monday, March 5, 2012

March 5

Sorry for the long delay - issues with log-ins here at school.  Fish have been doing very well - they are growing fast and will soon be moved into the new larger tank.  About 2 months till stocking time.

Monday, February 13, 2012

February 13

Sorry for the delay in posting, but it was a busy week last week.  Seems like we have some very well-intentioned people trying to help our fish grow this year.  Had a couple cases of food dumping last week, which resulted in the loss of 4 fish and hours of clean-up time.  Had to completely disassemble the filter and clean out about 1.5 inches of food, along with the sweeping and changing of 45 gallons of water.  Even with all of that, the fish seem to be doing pretty well.

Friday, January 27, 2012

January 27

Fish are growing well still - will probably need to get second tank up and running in the next few weeks.  Water quality is still ok - we have been changing about 5 gallons a week.  Took the filter covers off of the power head and the main filter this week, as the fish have grown enough now not to worry about getting sucked in the filters.

Friday, January 20, 2012

January 20

Fish are progressing nicely this year.  Tank water parameters have been excellent - we change out about 5 gallons of water once a week just to remove excess food and waste from the bottom of the tank.  Fish are being fed about 6-8 times a day.  Only issue we think we are having is major cannibalism, as many of our smaller fish seem to be disappearing.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

January 12

Trout seem to be doing well - we are losing about 1 fry a day, which is not too bad.  However, we think that there is some cannabalism taking place over the weekends with some of the smaller trout.  We have bumped up the food to size 1, and they are taking well to it.  Looking at setting up tank 2 in the very near future.

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

January 4, 2012

Happy New Year everyone.  The trout made it through Christmas break in fine fashion, only losing 3 fish over the 10 day holiday.  Fish seem to be doing well, with most fish actively feeding at the surface.  We have had to do one 5 gallon water change to date, just to help clear our some of the excess feed and fish waste.  Looking forward to bumping up the food size in the near future.