If anyone here is in Maryland, I just created a group Maryland Aquaponics for open discussion about the difficulties specific to our area. Please join me and lets talk aquaponics.
I'm completely new in aquapony and also on this web site; I'm not sure that I use it properly, so I beg you to excuse me if I'm a bit wrong.
My name is Yves DAVID, I'm living in France at 150 km northeast of Bordeaux (temperature range along the year : -5 -> +35°C)
My system is composed with:
- 1fish tank 750 liters with 18 rainbow trouts since end of september with an air pump (720 l/h max). It is located in a barn without heating system.
- 2 growbeds (2.5 square meters, 700 liters approx of expanded clayballs) with one bell siphon each; I have planted : 12 salads, 6 cabbages + various others. They are located outside the barn, in a light plastic greenhouse.
- 1 pump (4500 l/h max) in a fourth tank (in the greenhouse) which receive the water of the 2 growbeds.
The 4 tanks comes from 2 IBC.
So far, everyboby is safe. The fishes are between 15 and 20 cm long; but I'm a bit afraid for the futur since the fishes will continue to grow and produce more and more polluants. I remove solides from the fish tank every 2 or 3 days with a siphon. Probably I 'll add a mechanic filter in a near futur.
I mesure (almost each day) pH / temperature and once, a week the nitrites and nitrates
Since you have large experiences in trouts and aquapony, I 'd like to have clues / informations about what I have to check or to take care.
Also, is the number of fishes too high compared to the substrat volume?
I thank you for any information you may send me, but please do not use too much acronyms which may be disturbing for me ( or add a lexicon).
Jeremiah Robinson
Wow Neal, you're raising all those fish together in the same tank? I would have guessed they'd fight. Are they all of a similar size?
Apr 23, 2014
Derrick Kerr
If anyone here is in Maryland, I just created a group Maryland Aquaponics for open discussion about the difficulties specific to our area. Please join me and lets talk aquaponics.
Sep 21, 2014
David
Hi,
I'm completely new in aquapony and also on this web site; I'm not sure that I use it properly, so I beg you to excuse me if I'm a bit wrong.
My name is Yves DAVID, I'm living in France at 150 km northeast of Bordeaux (temperature range along the year : -5 -> +35°C)
My system is composed with:
- 1fish tank 750 liters with 18 rainbow trouts since end of september with an air pump (720 l/h max). It is located in a barn without heating system.
- 2 growbeds (2.5 square meters, 700 liters approx of expanded clayballs) with one bell siphon each; I have planted : 12 salads, 6 cabbages + various others. They are located outside the barn, in a light plastic greenhouse.
- 1 pump (4500 l/h max) in a fourth tank (in the greenhouse) which receive the water of the 2 growbeds.
The 4 tanks comes from 2 IBC.
So far, everyboby is safe. The fishes are between 15 and 20 cm long; but I'm a bit afraid for the futur since the fishes will continue to grow and produce more and more polluants. I remove solides from the fish tank every 2 or 3 days with a siphon. Probably I 'll add a mechanic filter in a near futur.
I mesure (almost each day) pH / temperature and once, a week the nitrites and nitrates
Since you have large experiences in trouts and aquapony, I 'd like to have clues / informations about what I have to check or to take care.
Also, is the number of fishes too high compared to the substrat volume?
I thank you for any information you may send me, but please do not use too much acronyms which may be disturbing for me ( or add a lexicon).
Oct 27, 2015