Jenn Gray

Female

Granite City, IL

United States

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How did you find us?
Search engine (Google)
If you found us through a search engine, what search words were you using?
St. Louis aquaponics
Are you an aquaponic gardener already?
Yes
If so, what type of system? (pick all that apply)
combination
How old is your system?
Just started
What type of fish do you grow with? (select all that apply)
Goldfish
How big is your fish tank?
Small for this first one. The next ones will be large
Please tell us something else about yourself.
We are not starting our own home aquaponics system. We are starting a large one to produce large amounts to sell and to help our community, in our basement of a 100+ year old building we are remodeling. We will be taking our goods to community markets and we have a box truck for personal delivery to local people who can't get out of there homes. We are in the development part and we need financial backing. We are doing everything we can to stay going, and refuse to give up on such a beautiful idea!

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  • Adrena lee

    Hello Jenn. I am in St Louis also. Nice to be friends. I am new to Aquaponics and I love it. I see you have been doing it for a while, cool. I have been talking to other people in my area and they are interested in it also. A couple people are even starting to collect supplies to build their own. I just got my system running pretty good yesterday morning, it felt like it was my birthday, lol. I hope your having fun at it also. A lot of hard work but it is well worth it.

    Jul 24, 2011

  • Adrena lee

    I don't have any fish in mine yet. I have to run my system for 2 weeks before I add any. I am probably going with gold fish at first so if anything happens I won't lose more expensive fish. I want to add tilapia after I have a good safe running system. I also have a new friend who lives a few blocks from me I just told her about this. She is going to set up a system  also. She is collecting supplies and coming to see mine on Wednesday so she can better understand it.

    Jul 24, 2011

  • Adrena lee

    Hi Jenn. I am going to use duck weed. I saw this guy on you tube and he had just a regular cooler with duck weed growing in it. He said you shouldn't put it in with the fish to grow, because it will take over. I will be getting gold fish soon and some duck weed. I have a barrel just like the blue ones I'm growing plants in, except it's cut the other way. I 'm going to use one for compost and the other half for duck weed. My beds are ready for seeds and plants now. I will put some in tomorrow. Do you think it will be hard to stop feeding all  the fish before you pull some out of the water to eat. Won't the other fish that are staying in their pool be mad, lol

    Jul 27, 2011