[Homestead] Aquaponics
EarthNSky
erthnsky at bellsouth.net
Sat Jun 6 02:20:10 EDT 2009
Thanks Jeanne!
I spent a few hours looking at it this evening. They apparently have a
demo of their setup down in south Georgia. I may try to stop in the
next time I am down that way. Don't know when it would be, but you
never know what turns life will give you.. Fort Valley is about 5 hours
south of here. It is interesting that they use soil and pots instead of
gravel.
Bev
Jeanne Driese wrote:
> Bev.
> Go to:
> www.growingpower.org/index.htm
> Will, who stared this project back in 1999 is a great guy. Have heard him speak and his set up is awesome, my dial up does pretty good at viewing the site. A group of folks I know took a bus trip up there and I have seen the video of that trip. It is amazing how much can be grown!
> Hope this will be helpful to you.
> Jeanne
> tnhillwoman
> North East TN zone 6
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> Subject: [Homestead] Aquaponics
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>
> Paula, if you are out there, please please please delurk and chime in...
> I miss you.
> Some years back, I decided to make a small aquaponic setup with two
> wooden beds 1 foot deep, 2 ft wide, and 4 ft long. Each box is
> outfitted with a drain, and I modified a bench in my greenhouse so that
> the drain flows through the bench and falls/drips into the fish barrel
> below. Inside that barrel is a pump which pumps the water up through pvc
> tubing at the surface of the growing bed and it is spread out over
> nozzles. I may need two barrels because of the volume of water the bed
> will hold, and I don't want the fish to be subjected to rising and
> falling water levels, but with these . Over the years, one of the
> growing beds has been attacked my termites and is now unsuitable for
> aquaponics, but the remaining grow bed should be large enough to produce
> salad in the winter in the greenhouse. I wish I could afford those
> large tubs that you really are supposed to have but I'm using what I
> have and trying to make do. I never really got the system up and
> running before. I can't even remember why, but I think it was because
> I did not have enough growing material in the box.
> So, I am about to start round 2 of aquaponics...to grow lettuce and
> maybe more stuff in a single 8 square foot box. Hopefully, I will be
> able to expand this setup at some point.
> I have timers, PVC, and the beds are constructed and sealed. I have
> fish(I bought a whole bunch of comets for the house aquarium to
> introduce my grandbaby to the joy of fish, and now, I have a good water
> supply that I did not have before(to top off evaporative loss)
>
> I think Lynn is still doing this, so I will address my questions to her,
> and Paula if she is here, and to anyone else who has some kind of
> aquaponic setup..
> What is the composition of your grow beds?
> Do you have issues with nozzles clogging over the beds?
> What issues do you have?
> I am hoping to avoid certain temperature requirements by using comets
> instead of tiliapia.
> Paula gave me some inoculant bacteria to use, but I did not use it all.
> do you think it might still be good? I'm going to try it, but just to
> hedge my bets, I will add some water from my indoor aquarium.
> Lynn, did you say you had a raft system? If so, can you describe it? I
> have plenty of barrels that I could split lengthwise and support for a
> raft system.
>
> Bev
>
>
>
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