I’ve just bought some silver perch for my backyard aquaponics project (I will outline my efforts at designing and construction in future posts). I got them in just before Christmas and all is going well.
One thing I noticed is that their behaviour is very much like sheep. They show a strong schooling behaviour and so where one or two go, the rest will not be far behind.
Like adolescent men at a buffet, these fish are guts when it comes to food! They just keep coming back and back to the surface for food.
I thought I should point backyard and full-time aquaculturists to this invaluable book on diseases of silver perch in case the sh!t hits the fan.
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/209309/Silver-Perch-Diseases-Manual.pdf
Happy fish keeping!
Richmond Loh
