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"Harvesting" fish

Hi Folks,

 

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

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My Aquaponics experiment

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

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Wanting a tour


Hello, my name is Sarah. My dad is here visiting from Iowa until July 9th, 2011 and he'd like to know if the permaculture guild has someone who can show him their aquaponics set up before he leaves. We are available anytime this week. If one can help

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We have babies!

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

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Rhiba Farms

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

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How to Size your Aquaponics System

Hi All,

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

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Turtles + Permaculture = ?

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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My Lil Aquaponics Project.

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

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How I did it small scale

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

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