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 David Schwinghamer on February 9, 2013 at 6:47pm: Has anyone here had any luck with growing tomatoes or peppers in a raft bed?

Comment by Matt Miskinnis on February 9, 2013 at 6:35pm: Some pics of my set up

Comment by Matt Miskinnis on February 9, 2013 at 5:36pm: Welcome Stephan! you'll love your new hobby. I've been cycling now for about 2 1/2 weeks and my plants are growing crazy! I just wish my nitrites would go down faster! I tell my wife it's funny that I can grow such great plants just by adding ammonia every morning. I've got it down now to where I add about 2-3 cap fulls of ammonia in the evening and 1 cap full in the morning, then when I check the water levels in the next evening the ammonia is gone, and my nitrates are between 10-20 ppm. I guess I'm at that stage where it's just waiting for the nitrites to go away. If I were to do my system over again I'd probably go with an IBC tote for the fish tank. The one I built is fine (it's about 170 gallons) but when I think of expanding I kind of wish I had a bigger FT. I may just get an IBC and use the FT I built as a sump. Oh hey, I do got a quick question for you guys.... I'm getting algae starting to form on the edges of my FT do any of you guys use any algae eaters?

Comment by David Schwinghamer on February 9, 2013 at 11:41am: My pepper plants are going crazy!!!

Comment by David Schwinghamer on February 9, 2013 at 11:10am: If you noticed when you first got here, the icon for this group is that system you are wanting to build. Phil of tank and barrel is where I started too. Glad to see you found us!

Comment by Stephan Youngers on February 9, 2013 at 10:59am: Hey everyone, just joined the group today, a pleasure to meet you all i'm sure.

I plan on setting up an IBC tote system with three 275 gallon to set up a CHOP 2 style system. I've found the totes at tanknbarrel for $100 each. Now I'm looking at the SS2 plumbing kit found else where on this website.

I'll be sure to put up some pictures once I've thrown it all together.