Some one asked me the other day if they needed a permit or anything like that for aquaponics. Also just the other day I was trying to figure out if I needed any special extra license, permit or something in order to sell fresh produce. I spent hours searching for answers. And way back when . . . → Read More: Permits for aquaponics
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Originally posted by TCLynx on AGC, June 15, 2010 We are talking about aquaponics which is supposed to be a living ecosystem, it is not a lab test kit. I have lately heard of several occasions where people used drastic measures to adjust pH and some of the situations were not so good for fish . . . → Read More: pH please have patience Originally posted by TCLynx on AGC, June 20, 2010 Just lately I ordered some water chestnut plant starts. I’ve read that fresh water chestnuts (which of course are not nuts but actually more like a corm that grows attached to the plant roots under ground under water) are so much better than the canned variety . . . → Read More: Water Chestnuts Originally posted by TCLynx on AGC, June 14, 2010 The common recommended minimum depth for flood and drain gravel beds is 1 foot deep. Some people do attempt beds less than that but the effective bio-filter in a shallow bed is more limited and managing flood and drain by siphons becomes farm more difficult with . . . → Read More: Deep grow beds Was thinking today about terminology. See many people want to do something like Aquaponics but they don’t necessarily want to use fish and some don’t even want to use water creatures at all so we get terms like vermiponics peeponics organic hydroponics etc……
Well I don’t really think the term organic hydroponics works very . . . → Read More: BIO-Ponics So I’ve had some requests for more video posts. Well here is one I hope you will find fun even though it is kinda tricky to understand what you are seeing. I wedged the camera in right next to the shoot on the fish feeder over the big system tank. Some of the catfish come . . . → Read More: May 25 Feeding the Catfish Originally posted by TCLynx on AGC, June 12, 2010 FILTER IT Yes that was me shouting. What’s NFT, that would be nutrient film technique or when you put the plant cups in holes in a pipe or trough and trickle a film of water along the bottom of it. An aquaponics system is more than . . . → Read More: Before you send water to your NFT pipes Originally posted by TCLynx on AGC, June 11, 2010 I have grown Blue Tilapia but am no longer growing them. I found it too much trouble to keep them warm through the winter without using electricity to heat the water. Here are excerpts of the article I wrote on them for the Backyard Aquaponics Magazine . . . → Read More: Blue Tilapia Originally posted by TCLynx on AGC, June 10, 2010 Channel Catfish are currently my only fish species in my aquaponics systems. Here are excerpts of the article I wrote on them for the Backyard Aquaponics Magazine (Full article with the pictures is available in the 5th issue of the Magazine.) Channel Catfish Ictalurus . . . → Read More: Channel Catfish Originally posted by TCLynx on AGC, June 9, 2010 Many people will ask “What’s with this Gravel Washing?” The answer is you don’t really want the random unknown sediment settling into your system and possibly damaging your pump or clogging up your grow beds and plumbing. Now some media is fairly clean and some people . . . → Read More: Gravel washing |
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