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Comment by Dave & Yvonne Story on January 15, 2012 at 4:58pm

temperature:

I use 400 watt aquarium heaters. I do most of my aquarium supplies from Amazon.

I use at least one heater per 100 gallons of water. I have three fish tanks in  my greenhouse the 300 gallon tanks has 3 heaters. in my 150 gallon thank I keep 2 heaters. In my 100 gallon tank I keep 2 heaters (my main tank for breeding).I,  have a 100 gallon tank outside of the greenhouse (insulated) it has 2 heaters. I have another breeding tank in the house 40 gallon with one heater 1 male and 1 female. He just started building a nest.

I error on the side of caution.

Comment by Brian Korsedal on January 15, 2012 at 4:26pm

I had the size on my tote wrong.  It's a 275 gallon tote with part of the top cut off.  So I should have more than enough water for this system.  Just the picture is wrong.

Comment by Brian Korsedal on January 15, 2012 at 4:24pm

How do you maintain the proper temperature in your system?  

Comment by Brian Korsedal on January 15, 2012 at 4:23pm

The general ratio from the research I have read is that you can use 1-3 cubic feet of gravel growbed for each cubic feet of water in the fish tank.  Or it's also easy to do it in gallons.  So two gallons of grow bed for every gallon of fish tank.  I have 4.5, 55 gallon barrels which comes out to 247.5 gallons of grow bed.  I have a 125 gallon tote.  I'll probably only fill it up with 100 gallons, but I'm still within the ratio.    

That is also an older picture.  I never rendered the proper tote in the design.  Maybe in future revisions I'll use a larger tote.

Comment by Dave & Yvonne Story on January 15, 2012 at 4:08pm

My greenhouse is 12 x 20 I have 550 gallons of fish tanks (3 fish tanks) feeding my grow-beds

Comment by Dave & Yvonne Story on January 15, 2012 at 4:06pm

Sorry

first thing I see is where is all the water coming from for your grow-beds?

Looks great but need more fish tanks. 

Comment by Brian Korsedal on January 15, 2012 at 4:02pm

Hi,

I'm trying to put together several 'Aquaponics Modules' which are adapted to the Phoenix environment.  I would love any help.

I'm starting with a 10ft by 10ft portable greenhouse.  I sized it to put 9, half barrels (55 gallon plastic drums) along three walls and squeeze a 125 gallon tote in for the fish tank.  Below is the general layout.  The grey thing was replaced by a tote.  

I'm building the frames out of rebar, but I don't really like how they are coming and I might change to wood.

I'd like to put this all together in a nice, how-to document.  Would any of you like to help me?

Comment by Mark on January 15, 2012 at 12:28am

When will there be some young tilapia available here in pHX area? Sheri, do you have some availability? Thanks in advance, I would be looking for 6 fish.

Comment by Kurtis Ryan on January 14, 2012 at 8:03pm

Thanks everyone  that all sounds good about the fish and the IBC . I was look at raising  Tilapia

Comment by Sheri Schmeckpeper on January 14, 2012 at 1:40pm

If you're looking for Tilapia, Ken, and if the planets align right, we'll have fish ready at the same time you're system is ready and the same time you have a tank/tanks available and the same time we are able to take a trip to our place in Snowflake w/our truck. :)

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