All Discussions Tagged 'duck' - Aquaponic Gardening2024-03-29T14:13:41Zhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=duck&feed=yes&xn_auth=noGrowing Duckweed for Fish Foodtag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2013-07-01:4778851:Topic:4897312013-07-01T20:58:13.597ZChelsea Brannanhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/ChelseaBrannan
<p>any one growing their own duck weed for additional fish food? How is it working out for you? any tricks?</p>
<p><a href="http://duckweedgardening.com/2012/03/07/duckweed-growing-tips-and-tricks/" target="_blank">Duckweed gardening here!</a></p>
<p>any one growing their own duck weed for additional fish food? How is it working out for you? any tricks?</p>
<p><a href="http://duckweedgardening.com/2012/03/07/duckweed-growing-tips-and-tricks/" target="_blank">Duckweed gardening here!</a></p> Storing duckweed?tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-08-13:4778851:Topic:3826892012-08-13T21:05:29.016ZJohn McShanehttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/JohnMcShane
<p>Greetings my name is John McShane. I am new to aquaponic. I feed my fish duckweed and not sure how much I will need this winter. what is the best way to store duckweed to last the winter. I am freezing some and drying some which is the best way or is there a better way.</p>
<p>Thank You</p>
<p>Greetings my name is John McShane. I am new to aquaponic. I feed my fish duckweed and not sure how much I will need this winter. what is the best way to store duckweed to last the winter. I am freezing some and drying some which is the best way or is there a better way.</p>
<p>Thank You</p> Storing duckweed?tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-08-13:4778851:Topic:3827442012-08-13T21:05:27.336ZJohn McShanehttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/JohnMcShane
<p>Greetings my name is John McShane. I am new to aquaponic. I feed my fish duckweed and not sure how much I will need this winter. what is the best way to store duckweed to last the winter. I am freezing some and drying some which is the best way or is there a better way.</p>
<p>Thank You</p>
<p>Greetings my name is John McShane. I am new to aquaponic. I feed my fish duckweed and not sure how much I will need this winter. what is the best way to store duckweed to last the winter. I am freezing some and drying some which is the best way or is there a better way.</p>
<p>Thank You</p> Feeding Duckweed and Azolla growing it safely.tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-04-11:4778851:Topic:3192302012-04-11T12:47:29.865ZBrian Graffiushttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/BrianGraffius
<p>At a recent aquaculture seminar hosted by a local Georgia College, they said Azolla was a very good food plant for fish and was prefered to Duck Weed. I have a sample of it and I have been experimenting with it. I also noticed it floating in a local pond, so I have a local natural source. </p>
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<p>I wanted to see how fast it grows, so I put a few plants in a bucket that had about 1/2 gallon of water and a small piece of horse manuer (a manuer tea if you will). I forgot about the…</p>
<p>At a recent aquaculture seminar hosted by a local Georgia College, they said Azolla was a very good food plant for fish and was prefered to Duck Weed. I have a sample of it and I have been experimenting with it. I also noticed it floating in a local pond, so I have a local natural source. </p>
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<p>I wanted to see how fast it grows, so I put a few plants in a bucket that had about 1/2 gallon of water and a small piece of horse manuer (a manuer tea if you will). I forgot about the plant for a week and when I went back it the population had exploded. The surface of the water was completely covered in a thick blanket of the stuff. Without the manuer, the growth is very slow. </p>
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<p>Manuer seems to present a host of problems an aquaponic system such as e coli and perhaps liver flukes among other really nasty hazards. I thought this would be a great place to talk about the hazards of using manuer to those that are new to aquaponics. Manuer is very commonly used in gardens and I can see someone not connecting the dots and do something like grow duck weed or azolla in manuer tea and then feed that to the fish. What about getting these floating plants from local sources, are there other things to worry about with those. How do you know when it comes to feed plants that they are safe and clean.</p>
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<p>As for azolla, I wonder what other nutrient I can add to the water to get the same kind of growth, that will still allow me to feed it to tilapia. Any ideas, I will experiment and post the results. Azolla is used in several countries for green manuer in dirt gardening. Growing azolla in manuer tea might just have an application for traditional gardening as a source for green manuer. I am still researching, but it is also used as a water conditioner and purifier. Will it kill e coli? So far I have not been able to find that it does.</p>