Keeping trout over summer
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- čas přidán 12. 07. 2024
- Trout is a very nice fish to grow. However, as a cold water fish, it can be tricky to keep them over summer. Here are my tricks to keep the fish alive during summer and grow them to large size.
Great advice Jonathon! We have been able to grow our trout through summer for the last 5 years due to the techniques you have suggested. Keep up the great videos!! Merci beaucoup!
Thanks Andrew and congratulations :)
All the tips are great!
It can potentially save someone from having to invest in costly chillers and such.
One more small tip to help keep heat out of your water. Is to use an external pump, it isnt in the water so doesn't add the heat from the pump running.
Not a huge amount of heat put out by the pumps. But they do put out heat.
Very true!
Thanks for the video very good ideas. I grow tilapia and have the opposite problem, keeping the water warm enough in winter. I now have 50 channel catfish, and am considering switching to Trout instead of the tilapia as well. My untried idea for keeping the water cool in summer is a grid of 1/2 inch PVC pipe I placed on my roof and connected to my water pump. The pipe is Painted Black so if I want to warm the pool I run water through it during the day in the sunshine. I know that works. but since it gets quite cool at night here even in the summer I think by running water through the PVC Grid at night the water will be cooled so the system will run in reverse and cool down the water in my pool. I think one could also dig a deep hole to get to Cold Ground and then bury a coil of tubing there which could also be hooked up to the pump so warm water from the pool would go down Underground through the tubing and get cooled, and then come back to the pond.
Thanks James, yes all good points there. Geothermia is an option and it works well :)
Fred S
Hi Jonathon, And also the air stones shouldn't be at bottom of fish tank, as doing so will mix the water to an average Temp, I'd raise it at least 1/2 half way up tank, you'll get some mixing but no where near as much, and insulate that Air tubing as the suns radiant heat will raise the air temp before it gets to the the fish & water, mine runs under Aluminum Starking cladded to my IBC bladder.
Very good point, thanks Fred :)
I will put it in our aquaponics here in Bulgaria. we have hot summers like you but very cold winters, it will however being grown in a greenhouse of glass with a stone building for the fishtanks. thank you for the information
thank you very much
I want to raise trout. I have 1/3 acre sandstone pond that's clear and about 13 feet deep. I live in Michigan and it can get into the 80's, sometimes 90's. I have heard a lot of horror stories on CZcams about rainbow trout, but you have given me hope.
Yes, trout don’t accept warm water. You describe your temperature reaching 90 Fahrenheit (32C). if this is air temperature that is one thing but what you must monitor is the water temperature.
Here in Melbourne Australia we have days above 40C but my inground pond water temperature doesn’t go above 24C.
@@AquaponicsRevolution Does your pond have a flow for the trout to push against or do they just swim around in the pond?
Ok, I can see you have a pump.
Hi . I love your videos and I'm starting a system of my own. Its quite a big system but I've had a lot of experience with fish and nitrate cycle. But I wanted to ask thoughts smallish ebb and flow wooden systems what were the dimension and stocking? Have you had any experience with blue gills?
Many thanks I love your videos.
We don't consume blue gills in Australia but I reckon they would grow well in aquaponics. For the dimensions and stocking ratio I would recommend to get it from the free training there: aquaponic.subscribemenow.com/
Here I am in Canada thinking: how will I keep them in the winter haha...
From what I understood I'll need a deep pond, and a closed greenhouse.
Does planting the pond heavily with plants(alongside making the pond relatively deep), help keep the water cool?
Yes, it does keep the water slightly cooler
Wow, your trout pond looks as good as the koi pond and you can eat your fish. Koi is too expensive. Thanks for your video.
I'm assuming that if your using a solids lifting outlet that would need to come off the bottom also?
Hi Victor, Yes we generally position the water pump at the bottom to lift all solids however in those circumstances we lift it during the warmest period.
Hey Jonathan, just wondering after 9 months do male golden trout change in features like Rainbows in things like;
Steel head hooked nose.
Does the male meat texture change like Rainbow males meat changes to a grey colour.
Excellent question. You will find the response in one of my previous videos about "growing trout in aquaponics". In short they are all females because they don't mature at 1 year so they grow faster than the males
Hi Jonathan,
Another nice video from you.
How deep are you placing the air stones in the pond? I have noticed, if the air stone is placed at the bottom of such deep pond, the pump wont be able to blow air.
Hi Umesh, good point, the deeper and the better the aeration will be but as you described, it require a slightly more powerful air pump.
@@AquaponicsRevolution thanks for your reply Jonathan
i am planning on putting a couple of trout in a natural pond of around 3.000.000 liter (75m long 20m wide and 2m deep). The pond also holds 5 pikes, some purch, roaches and a couple of carp.
tempretures in Belgium can get up to 40° in summer. Do you reckon it will work and if so do you think the fish will be able to stay alive all year round and should I feed them?
Thanks Robbe, great pond! Have you ever checked your water temperature over summer? if it doesn't pass 24C you might have a chance to keep some rainbow trout. Adding an air stone during summer might help if possible
@@AquaponicsRevolution thanks for the tip!
Was thinking of doing this..
Great, more videos to come :)
Im in Adelaide. How many litres is that pond? Will a high - calcium level water be bad for rainbow trout?
Hi Sam, it's 5-6m3
@@AquaponicsRevolution Cheers!
My fish tank gets to 30C I have no chance without major modifications…. Silvers seem to love it though.
how big is you pond an what whas the highest water temperature on you hotest day in sumer
The pond is 1.7m deep and the highest temperature was around 21C
Thx u hottest temp outside pond and is 1.7m by
ND how much liters here it gets to about 40c outside
How do you keep the fish eating birds away?
Hello Jim,
My pond is very closed to the house so it may help but I didn't have any issue with birds at all.
Alternatively nets can also be helpful. Cheers
@@jonathanmartinetto2344 I have a bathtub goldfish pond under a pergola attached to the house. Over the years it has been visited by big white Egrets, herons and Cormorants. Tried mesh plate barriers which the birds climbed all over and moved and still got the fish. Nets got flattened by birds and then fish get speared by sharp bills. Now is hidden from view with heavy planting in and around the pond. Very strange seeing large birds in a bath tub! Good Luck. Hope it never happens to you. Location is also a factor, less likely in the suburbs.
Thanks Jim, yes you are right, location is a big one.
I've had the same problem, Jim. Bloody cormorants ate so many of my rainbow trout that had survived 26ºC (water temperature!) in the summer that they couldn't take off. It's not so easy to protect a pond measuring 6 metres wide with a net. @@jimgreenwood5360
Sir can I feed magotes n earthworm too to trout
Yes of course, they love it!
It is may 11th on california lets see if my rainbow can make it through the summer
Update?
The trout survived the warmest the water temp got was 76f for a few days was in the low mid 70s for about 6 weeks. trout ate throughout all of it and barely seemed phased though he did eat noticeably less when it got warm
How it behaves in coolder temperatures less than. -10 centigrades
They can live under the ice
Sir I want to purchase brook and golden trout eyed ova please sir I'm interested reply please
Please contact your local trout farm.
I can hear you fine. By the way
Thanks for your tips. They are useful. Please improve your sound quality. It degradates the good video.
Well noted thanks
Get a CALM room with paper and marker and record all your speaking and main thoughts in THERE. Than mix it together with videos taken outside and reduce the noise (the music is too loud again too). You have the knowledge to share, but the quality of videos is not improving, despite being told so many times. It's frustrating :D I have to watch you with subtitles, because from the speaker on my phone it sounds like you've fallen off bike and the mike is constantly tubling on the floor while you speak.
Ufff. Ok. With that off my chest. Good thoughts. The shade is kinda obvious, but hard to do it to look good (shade cloths are ugly and you won't grow a tree over night). The depth of the pump (tu suck the warm water on top, not the cold at the bottom) is brilliant.
You could be more specific. What air pump, pipes and air stones you use. What throughput to what volume of water. Can I oveoxygenate the fish? How do your neighbours deal with the pum and running water nosie?
I wish you all the best. And keep going!
It's FREE information. Why complain about you having to use subtitles on you phone?
If you cant hear on one device, use a different one or try ear buds or something to improve YOUR problem hearing. Why blame him for not having a special room or equipment upgrades?
Sounds like its your problem.
Instead of complaining, just move on to a different video....
Also, if something functions well but doesn't look "good". Does that really affect the efficiency or effectiveness of it?
The questions you are asking can be answered in most basic aquaponics how to videos or tutorials. He mentions his free tutorial video every time.
His title is about tips to keeping trout, not how to build a system.