A Community and Forum For Aquaponic Gardeners

Arizona Aquaponics

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Helping each other to learn and grow big nutritious plants and fish to help feed the world.

Location: Phoenix
Members: 230
Latest Activity: Oct 7, 2019

Thank you all for joining my group, I hope to do a lot with all anyone interested. Please
tell me any event suggestions you would like us to do.

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Comment by Matt Miskinnis on March 15, 2013 at 9:55am: Thanks for the find Dr Brooks, Nice to see an aquaponics store in phoenix, if anyone is going to check them out this weekend, I would be curious to know what the prices are like for hydroton, grow beds, vertical towers, and if they sell things like chealeted (sp?) iron and things that are specific for aquaponics systems

Comment by Sheri Schmeckpeper on March 15, 2013 at 9:50am: Zach,

Our kids are coming up on Easter from Sahuarita. We can send some down to you. They're Nile, mixed sex fry, about 1" for $1 each. Email or call me 480-889-4374.

I wonder who's behind the local AP store. It's interesting...mostly floating rafts using hydro trays, but some deeper trays for media beds. I wonder where he/she got those. We haven't been able to find anything deeper than 7" without paying a hefty price.

Comment by Stephanie Bader on March 15, 2013 at 9:06am: Nice find! I know where I'm going shopping this weekend.

Comment by Dr. George B. Brooks, Jr. on March 15, 2013 at 4:08am: Interesting. A local aquaponics store. http://shop.endlessfoodsystems.com

Comment by Dr. George B. Brooks, Jr. on March 14, 2013 at 9:00pm: Our bok choy is very confused. Some are bolting, some are happy.

Water temperature home outside system no greenhouse, 70F. Outside temperature 96F. Hmmn.

Comment by Jim Troyer on March 14, 2013 at 8:06pm: The solar heater really kicked in today! The pond is at 80f

Guess I can put the big guys back in the pond again!

I rescued the fish from the cold in December when I lost a couple while I was goofing around getting my heater hooked up. Turns out silicon sticks to black poly drip tube, but not to PVC connectors. Liquid nails sticks to PVC but not to black poly drip tube. I finally screwed dry wall screws into the silicon through the PVC connector; it only dripped a few days before the crud plugged it up... I have a better fix in mind for next season stay tuned...

I measured one of the tilapia that is still in the house aquarium yesterday at just over 11 inches. It's getting nice a fat too

Later,

Jim

Comment by Zach Moler on March 14, 2013 at 4:48pm: anyone close to pima county/tucson/marana have tilapia fingerlings/fry for sale?

Comment by Matt Miskinnis on March 14, 2013 at 1:31pm: Don't know if any of you have seen this, but I thought it was a great story on an Urban farmer in South Central.

TED the Urban Farmer

Comment by Sheri Schmeckpeper on March 14, 2013 at 1:02pm: Great pictures, Dr. George! Thinks are growing nicely.

Stephanie, I have a friend who lost the majority of his pond population to the crane. I'm not sure how to protect them, but I'm sure you don't want to spend your life in your yard waving your arms around. :)

With the first freeze followed by nice weather and then a second freeze, many of our plants have bolted. Only the kale in the A/P system has bolted, but the broccoli, some lettuce, arugula, and a couple other things in the Square Foot garden have gotten confused. So we're doing a nice harvest and re-planting this weekend.

Comment by Dr. George B. Brooks, Jr. on March 13, 2013 at 7:45pm: Yeh I noticed that. I tried the flash but it had little effect. Guess I need a better camera :-(. The way the system is configured, the best light for photography is in the afternoon when no one is around.