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Comment by Jeff S on May 17, 2014 at 7:58pm

Hopefully the fry are smart enough to use the hiding spots. Even if they are when they come out to feed a lot of them aren't gonna make it. I separated 2 of my females showing signs of expecting into a separate plastic tub (at different times). After delivery I separated the fry from the moms and put the moms back in the big tank. I got over 800 fry. All the other times my females delivered I left them in the main tank and so far I only got 21 fingerlings from that.

Comment by Bob Wohl on May 17, 2014 at 4:57pm

Gotcha. I'm just wondering if it will help much. Lets see if it will :)

Comment by Jim Troyer on May 17, 2014 at 4:51pm

making places for the fry to hide is a good idea Bob, but future batches need it to hide from this batch, not the folks, the adults could care less if there are fry swimming about, that is if they are well fed...

Comment by Bob Wohl on May 17, 2014 at 3:52pm

Males are fighting. Isn't this a sign that the good ol procreation is about to take place? I've made some "fish houses" for the smaller fish to hide out in out of 5 1' long PVC pipes stacked. I figure that if they are going to do the mouth dance and the young magically happen to make it to fry size they'll be able to hide in between the pipes. 

Has any one successfully pulled this off? By "this", I mean the lazy part of letting the fish do their normal thing. :)

Comment by Jim Troyer on May 14, 2014 at 11:01pm

Hi Lisa:

Welcome aboard.

Yep it's there: http://community.theaquaponicsource.com/main/search/search?q=fodder

there is a search function in the upper right near your name, you may have to scroll up to find it.

Good Luck!,

Jim

Comment by lisa outland on May 14, 2014 at 10:43pm

Hello I am new to AP. I was wondering if anyone grows Fodder?

Comment by John Malone on May 11, 2014 at 11:40am

@ Kim Romen 

I have two gravel grow beds each 6'x4'  and a DWC bed at 8'x4'

So that's about 80 sq feet of growing area.

... and it's not enough...

My next plan is a 8'x4' wicking bed plumbed in to the AP system.   Maybe I'll get it built this summer.  Maybe...

Comment by Matt Miskinnis on May 10, 2014 at 11:55pm

I have shade cloth up.

Comment by Kim Romen on May 10, 2014 at 11:22pm

John, how many square feet of growing space do u have?  i need to make sure i want to go as big as i'm thinking (150 square feet).  i love the gardening but don't want to become a slave to it.

all looks great!  your tomato plants look nice and green.  mine that get morning sun look great, but those that get afternoon sun are producing but leaves are drying up some. 

anyone have shade cloth on yet?  my grapes are giving some coverage but they really take off after we've picked the grapes off, so that'll still be another mth or so

Comment by Kim Romen on May 10, 2014 at 10:57pm

Nichole, that is the same wall where i am thinking of putting my new garden bed: north wall, southern exposure, full day sun.  my current system is on my East wall (west facing), so has all afternoon sun and pretty much sun all day.  I've failed with soild gardens there, although am sure it's partially cuz i'm a street away from south mtn and my soil is useless for growing here; pure caliche, no drainage...  i always added compost but it wasn't good enough and prob should've done raised beds, but here I am with AP.  Raised beds are so pretty, i may still give them a shot later. 

as for grapes, mine are in that spot (west facing) and do fabulous in the dirt on my arbor.  glad to hear they will do well on wrought iron!  At the tour today i saw someone doing an apple aspalier on their wrought iron fence and someone else doing grapes.  yeah!  :)

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