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TOPIC: Start it up!

Start it up! 30 Sep 2013 20:32 #27

HFI_Matt ~ Humble Servant ~ OFFLINE ADMIN Posts: 927 Good Job(s): 108	Little darling!
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Start it up! 17 Dec 2013 20:33 #55

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I am entering winter number three with my aquaponics set up. I have two(2) 275 gallon food grade totes in my insulated but unheated garage. One tote houses 10 adult beeding pure strain blue tilapia from which I have harvested thousands of pure offspring. The second tote is my grow out tank that currently houses 40 fingerlings that were hatched from my breeders. My challenges have been keeping temperatures up in the winter months and keeping plant diseases and bug infestations down.

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An odyssey in small scale sustainability.

Last Edit: 17 Dec 2013 20:37 by Origins hobby farm. Reason: pictures popped up in the text insead of after it.

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Start it up! 17 Dec 2013 21:17 #57

HFI_Matt ~ Humble Servant ~ OFFLINE ADMIN Posts: 927 Good Job(s): 108	Do you breed or buy new fish? Looks awesome!!!
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Start it up! 18 Dec 2013 13:28 #75

CALMUM92FH10 OFFLINE New Member Posts: 2 Good Job(s): 1	Do you breed your own fish food?
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Start it up! 18 Dec 2013 13:34 #76

HFI_Matt ~ Humble Servant ~ OFFLINE ADMIN Posts: 927 Good Job(s): 108	CALMUM92FH10 wrote: Do you breed your own fish food? That's a really good question, unlike my stupid question above! I missed the fact that you were already breeding your fish:) I'm assuming you are breeding bugs like black soldier flies or mill worms to feed your fish?
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Start it up! 18 Dec 2013 13:41 #78

CALMUM92FH10 OFFLINE New Member Posts: 2 Good Job(s): 1	I was thinking something other than the bugs, the one picture looked like brine shrimp maybe.
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Start it up! 18 Dec 2013 15:02 #79

HFI_Matt ~ Humble Servant ~ OFFLINE ADMIN Posts: 927 Good Job(s): 108	CALMUM92FH10 wrote: I was thinking something other than the bugs, the one picture looked like brine shrimp maybe. You can grow duckweed but brine shrimp will only work for the fry.
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Start it up! 30 Dec 2013 09:46 #373

AdminEric "Chickenman" or "Palletman" OFFLINE Expert Member Posts: 81 Good Job(s): 26	I was thinking of starting a system this summer when it warms up (I don't have a garage). Can you recommend any books or resources on starting a small system?
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