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Hi All,

Here is a couple of photos from a recent fish farm visit, The one photo I was hoping to get was of a 2,00lt pond with 12,000 Neon's in it, but there was a problem with the breeding a few months ago, so it was not to be.

One of the sheds, excuse the photo, I did not wipe the water off the lense

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These Angels are around the 8 to 10cm+ body length, with out the tail. There was 20 ponds of them at that size

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Platys all good size fish

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Head and Tail light Tetra's

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One of the Angel males breeders

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Harliquin Rasboaras, they are big and I bought a heap of them lovely

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Plants around some of the ponds in another shed

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A gold wenerii I had from there a while ago

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There is a mistake in my fish ID there, swords in the Platy shots

Enjoy Bob

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Oooh cool! Id love to go somewhere like that.

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Wow didn't even know we had tropical fish breeders on that scale in Australia:encouragement:

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I always do that Ninja, so I fixed it. Dyslexia.

It is a big farm and that is only a small bit of it and of course it is up here.

They put out just short of 1,000,000 fish a year, but are not open to the public

Something else they breed

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The photo is of my fish form there.

Bob

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BB ?

Gouramis in

Gold

Platinum

3 Spot

Blue

Pearl

Bristlenose

Normal

Albino

Corys

Albino

Bronze

Angels many colours

Rams

Electric Yellows

Neons by the hundreds of thousands

Head and Tail lights

Glow lines

Black Neons

Zebra Danios

Red fin Zebs

Praecox Rainbows

Coen Trifasciata

Goyder Trifas

Skull ck Maccullochi

Bosimanii

Harlequin Rasboras

and more I can not think of

Bob

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Great Pics Bob!! Thanks for sharing, must be amazing seeing those fish in such large ponds!!

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It is a eye opener to see them like that, no filter no system, just ground water running through 24x7.

Most of the photos were taken in the pond with the fish.

Fishmosy should have some to add, Ben was there for a visit to.

Bob

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nice on bob! :encouragement:

beautiful trifasciata!! did u manage any pics of the praecox?

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Stan the Praecox were all 2.5cm at the time, but are a nice strain.

They also do

Tiger Barbs

Gold Barbs

Blue eyes

Weneriii

Bob

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What an amazing place! I thought all aquarium fish were bred in Asia.

Thanks for sharing the pictures, Bob! :applause:

What a shame you could not get a pic of the 12.000 Neons! Would love to see that.

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What? No shrimp?

Just joking. I'd love to have visited this place as well. Too bad it's so far away.

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So finally dug out my pics from this visit.

One half of one shed

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The other half

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A lot of fish

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Another shed/greenhouse.

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Swords and anubias growing in the greenhouse

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Awesome pics mate wish I was there. Reminds me of when I saw the barra open water pens at derby ( that many barra the water went black 30,000 if I remember correctly).

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