Good morning my friends. Just an FYI on the Go Green Phoenix Conference. It looks to be a significant event and bridges Sustainability with Civic and Business development. I will be speaking amongst a cadre of local leaders including Kimber Lanning,
My system currently has a 330 gallon in ground fish tank that started life as a hot tub. There are two pumps in the tank, one small one, 264 gpm, always on for aeration and a 1400 gpm pump that is on a timer for 15 minutes every two hours. The outp
Read more…Greetings my friends. I am working on an article on aquaponics for the October edition of my sustainability focused magazine NxT Horizon. I would like to include some of the personal experience of any of you who are interested as well as some photogr
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I am still in the "I want to do this stage" but I have not gotten past the slaughtering of fish questions. Anyone with thoughts on the subject? I am currently a meat and fish eater. In the past I was a lacto-ovo vegetarian for 8 years wh
Read more…My frustration with the many articles I have seen on aquaponics/aquaculture is that the really good ones tend to be way over my head.
I found a good, basic article about water chemistry that I wanted to share with others: http://fins.actwin.com/mirr
Read more…Ok, every now and then you just have to say it no matter how it sounds. Ok, here goes. "Dear Time magazine, we have been saying this since at least 1980. With 85% of the US seafood supply produced overseas, we are glad you have finally seen the light
Read more…Rhiba Farms, based in Chandler, grows organic produce and recently entered aquaponics. They offer tours of their facility the last Sunday of the month from 10am to about 12pm. We're going this Sunday. If you've never toured their farm, they're schedu
Read more…Right now I have a small system that has guppies in it and I'm working on building a larger system in my back yard. I was just wondering where everyone else has gone to buy fish.
Thanks,
Stephanie
Read more…Greetings, I'm back. My research into aquaponics here in Phoenix led me to the hypothesis that maybe there was a simpler way of doing things that might make it more accessible to more people. So I took a couple of months to test the idea. So far so g
Read more…Well, we have eggs anyway. Yesterday two of our tilapia in the breeding tank started actively building nests. All the fish started acting differently. It was very interesting. The dominant female was one of them, and she turned all white except for a
Read more…Greetings. This is in follow up to an earlier conversation regarding freshwater prawns in aquaponics, and thanks to Rachel for her suggestion we post this to the group. In summary we would like to provide freshwater prawns (Macrobrachium rosenbergii)
Read more…Greetings. My name is George Brooks. My background is in integrated aridlands aquaculture/agriculture including aquaponics. Back in 1990 I filled the role of aquaculture extension specialist for the University of Arizona. The last work however, I did
Read more…I'm new to most of this. I do a little bit of turtle and tortoise rescue and I'm planning to build a larger pond (600-700 gal) to house the increasing population. If aquaculture is defined as the raising of aquatic animals for food production, the
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Well I'm getting more and more excited about starting an aquaponics system. I'm still in the research phase and hope to get something up and running in 2011. In the process I ran across Dr Wilson Lennard. Dr Lennard is an Australian scienti
Read more…Hi Everyone! My name is Chi. I don't live in AZ. I found this sitecruising the web when I stumbled on Rachel's post. It inspired me tomake my own system. I noticed a lot of systems are a lil um "3rd world"looking for the lack of a better term. This i
Read more…Hi all :) I'm NOT doing edible aquaponics anymore. I do have a small turtle pond which worked nicely when I grew edibles out of it in my partially shaded patio (no full afternoon sun). I quit growing food because my turtles developed a bacterial i
Read more…I understand the basic idea behind aquaponics, however I would like to see one working. I have watched several videos showing systems, but want to see the real thing. Personal or Commercial would be fine. 928 699 2605 or Rayagainstthemachine@yahoo
Read more…http://cals.arizona.edu/azaqua/
Found this page off the Maricopa Master Gardener's site
As this was posted elsewhere, I thought it might be nice for others who have designed their own Aquaponics system as I have a thread to post their own designs. This way it could give others a place to view what has been done and maybe give them a sta
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