Catfish/Crayfish in barrels? Didn't want to hijack...

elkhound · #21 03/17/14, 09:41 PM

i miss cowgirlone too

AngieM2 · #22 03/17/14, 10:00 PM

I miss her also. Her threads about growing shrimp were wonderful.

1shotwade · #23 03/18/14, 04:22 AM

I wish somebody would find her 'cause I got a whole bunch of questions I wanted to ask her 'bout raise'n shrimp!
Wade

K.B. · #24 03/18/14, 09:09 AM

Wade - Here is a link to a shrimp farm operation in your part of the county:
http://shrimpfarminginindiana.com/services

1shotwade · #25 03/18/14, 09:34 AM

Thanks for the link!

Wade

fishhead · #26 03/19/14, 02:14 PM

Ohio state has information on pond culture of freshwater shrimp. Contact Laura Tiu.

J&J NC · #27 03/21/14, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by lmnde

I am so glad someone asked that question - I've been kicking this one around in my head for a while... I do not need to raise big meal size fish - I have a small catterie/kennel and rawfeed - I am simply looking for an additional inexpensive uncontaminated source of fish for my furkids - something that can handle summer temps in GA. I have actually been thinking about using a large inflateable pool for this in combination to using some of the water for hydroponics. ---Snip ---and can handle higher temps...

Be careful with plastic pools - we had harmful chemicals leach out into the water, which killed all 25 starter fish. We were advised to use a pond liner next time, but haven't gotten back to that project yet. I'd be interested in how your experiment works out.

TedH71 · #28 03/21/14, 07:35 PM

I remember when my biology teacher brought to the classroom a bucket full of apparently endangered crawfish and endangered salamanders that she had found in her well out at the family ranch. The crawfish were some type of blind cave crawfish and the salamanders apparently were some kind of super endangered salamander (central Texas). Guess what happened? The crawfish ate all the salamanders! The teacher wasn't aware that crawfish can and will eat salamanders then she found out she was violating the state law by having two endangered critters in the bucket so she took the crawfish back to where they came from. Apparently the family had been getting water from the well for a long time. I'm gonna try to remember what kind of crawfish and salamander they were. She was able to inform the state biologists about the salamander's apparently extended range. I was the one who told her that she had rare critters killing each other, lol.