I have 26 Zipgrow towers right now, and I'm thinking about adding 2x growbeds. I worried about their aggressive behavior but I my choices are slowly getting limited.
Good luck with it. I had fun growing the first batch of trout even though it wasn't a huge success. With a bigger fish tank and more growing space, you may not have as much trouble with them. Let us know how it goes.
Greetings! I just finished cycling my outdoor system in SE Pennsylvania in a greenhouse--an upgrade to a littler system I've been running the past 2 years. As soon as possible, I want to add yellow perch to this 400 gal tank (based on what I think the temperatures will be throughout the year)... I'm not exactly sure where I'll buy them--maybe Zett's Fishery, maybe Shultz's Fishery--I'm open to ideas if anybody knows an even closer source.
But my bigger concern are details on their feed. I cannot BEAR the thought of a GMO corn and soy based high protein commercial diet as the foundation for my sustainable backyard health food system. I was thinking, and hoping, I could succeed with some combination of the AquaOrganic pellets (for omnivorous fish apparently), heavily supplemented with dubia roaches, mealworm, BSF larvae, and red wrigglers, maybe minnows and marmokrebs. I worry this is going to be way too much effort to raise a proper variety of live feed, but I need all the advise I can muster on an appropriate, totally non-GMO diet for these carnivores that won't be so painfully intensive? I'm clueless as to what a proper ration of this combo diet would be that would give enough nutrients to the fish and plants.
Blue Hiller
Aug 17, 2013
Tom OBrien
Good luck with it. I had fun growing the first batch of trout even though it wasn't a huge success. With a bigger fish tank and more growing space, you may not have as much trouble with them. Let us know how it goes.
Aug 18, 2013
ALM
Greetings! I just finished cycling my outdoor system in SE Pennsylvania in a greenhouse--an upgrade to a littler system I've been running the past 2 years. As soon as possible, I want to add yellow perch to this 400 gal tank (based on what I think the temperatures will be throughout the year)... I'm not exactly sure where I'll buy them--maybe Zett's Fishery, maybe Shultz's Fishery--I'm open to ideas if anybody knows an even closer source.
But my bigger concern are details on their feed. I cannot BEAR the thought of a GMO corn and soy based high protein commercial diet as the foundation for my sustainable backyard health food system. I was thinking, and hoping, I could succeed with some combination of the AquaOrganic pellets (for omnivorous fish apparently), heavily supplemented with dubia roaches, mealworm, BSF larvae, and red wrigglers, maybe minnows and marmokrebs. I worry this is going to be way too much effort to raise a proper variety of live feed, but I need all the advise I can muster on an appropriate, totally non-GMO diet for these carnivores that won't be so painfully intensive? I'm clueless as to what a proper ration of this combo diet would be that would give enough nutrients to the fish and plants.
Apr 16, 2015