Francois Lemmer

Male

Eastern Cape

South Africa

Profile Information:

How did you find us?
a friend
Are you an aquaponic gardener already?
Yes
If so, what type of system? (pick all that apply)
flood and drain media, raft
How old is your system?
2 yrs or more
What type of fish do you grow with? (select all that apply)
Koi, Tilapia
How big is your fish tank?
7000 liters
Please tell us something else about yourself.
Aquaculture/Aquaponics/ Worm culture

MY PASSION STARTED after reading an article on aquaculture in the Farmers Weekly, a popular magazine here in South Africa.
I started out with absolutely no experience in growing plants or breeding fish
In 2006 I started in my garage with 250 Tilapia I kept for 200 days. (At first I kept them in one dam. As they grew I had to add another dam.)

Comment Wall:

  • Sylvia Bernstein

    Welcome Francois,

    Thanks for joining the Aquaponic Gardening community! I hope you find it a fun place to explore aquaponics. There is a real blend of experienced and new aquapons in this community, so please don’t hesitate to join in. Always thrilled to have experienced growers join us – please post some photos of your system!

    A great place to start is to read the “How to Use This Site” link on the upper right corner, “Start Here” section of the Main page.

    Please add a photo of yourself and participate!

    Thanks again for joining us, and I look forward to getting to know you.

    Sylvia

    Dec 5, 2010

  • Sylvia Bernstein

    You're welcome. You might want to seek out Kobus Jooste in this site. He is from South Africa, a very active member of this community, extremely knowledgeable about aquaponics, and all around good guy

    Dec 5, 2010

  • Sahib Punjabi

    Welcome Francois :-)

    Dec 5, 2010

  • Sylvia Bernstein

    Hi Francois.  Kobus left the community about a week ago, and also left Facebook.  These were for personal reasons having nothing to do with you, so don't worry!  He needs to cut all ties with aquaponics for a while, but we hope to have him back some day.  He's a good guy and I hope you get to meet him.

    Dec 12, 2010

  • Sylvia Bernstein

    Francois, I'm sorry that you thought that, even for a moment!  We are happy to have you here as part of this community!  Take care.

    Dec 12, 2010

  • Sylvia Bernstein

    Where is your post now?  I don't see anything under new forum...

    Dec 12, 2010

  • Sylvia Bernstein

    Francois, your photos are right where they should be.  I think you are fine now.

    Dec 14, 2010

  • Sylvia Bernstein

    Hi Francois.  I see your thread, but I don't know what you the posts "2007 the design and building of my system and 2008 january 28" are.  Maybe if you sent me a link.  But the best thing to do would probably be just to cut and  paste from those posts into your forum topic, I would think...

    Dec 18, 2010

  • Sylvia Bernstein

    Nice article in BYAP magazine!  I enjoyed reading about the evolution of your system

    Jan 8, 2011

  • Trevor M Van Zuydam

    hi Francois, my name is Trevor. i live in Port Elizabeth as well. i was wondering if i could come see your setup personally. i want to start something small and need some resources - which i hope you can help me locate. 

    thanks

    Jun 14, 2011