Biotope For Juvenile Salmon
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Hi all you hill stream experts
” border=”0″ alt=”smile.gif” /> <br />I have been asked to help with a tank for the reception area of the offices where i work, we are a salmon farming company on the west coast of scotland and the most appropriate residents of such a tank would seem to be juvenile salmon. The idea of the tank is to celebrate the species we farm for the incredible fish that they are but also to draw attention to the collaboration that our farm has with hatcheries that restock the local rivers with wild salmon parr. Ideally we would hope to get a handful of wild origin juveniles from them so that when the time came to be released we could do so in local rivers.</p>
<p>i have only ever kept tropical freshwater fish, so am a bit of a novice when it comes to setting up tanks that would represent the scottish west coast ‘hill stream’ biotope. i need to look into getting chillers and power heads to create current. </p>
<p>i hope to keep a photo diary on here as the project progresses. Any advice on how to put such a tank together would be much appreciated <img src=)
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Hi Dave
Think I’d be tempted to copy the types of tanks used for the hillstream loaches with the pipes under the gravel… and yes, a big chiller. They are not cheap to buy and not cheap to run either
/smile.gif” style=”vertical-align:middle” emoid=”:)” border=”0″ alt=”smile.gif” />hi colin, thanks for the advice, can you recommend any suppliers/brands of chillers and designs of systems that i could copy
i’m thinking of a 4ft tank with a sump filter,but will that filter set up just increase the volume of water that needs chilled?
possibly a simpler system with a simple external eheim 2217 and power heads in the tank to create current? or does that sound hopelessly underspec’d
my kids’ school also did the salmon egg hatching program, only a few alevins hatched though in advance of the easter break (i think the chiller was on too cold), though i understand they have now been released into a tributary of the River Lochy. its great that the fisheries’ trusts are getting involved with schools, cultivating the next generation of fish geeks
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