RupertofOZ

Male

Gerringong, NSW

Australia

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Are you an aquaponic gardener already?
Yes
If so, what type of system? (pick all that apply)
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I run multiple systems here at home...

A 6000L trout system... operated on a purely aquaculture basis... holding between 100-300+ rainbow trout... up to about 800gms

A 1000L aquaponics system.... holding about 60 Silver Perch ... to about 1kg...

A 800L aquaponics system... primarily run by yabbies... & holding about 10 Catfish...

A new, 3000L semi-completed aquaponics system... running about 200+ Barramundi....

And another small 1000L RAS system ... with about 100+ Tandanus Catfish...
Please tell us something else about yourself.
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As Sylvia has already noted, there's no shortage of forums and advice available to us flokes here in Australia... but perhaps a lot of it is to "localised" to translate to people in the US...

So I'll confine my self to primarily posting on subjects regarding general aquaponics principles and fish keeping...

I've been an avid soil gardener all my life... up until this summer... when I abandoned my soil garden...

I now grow everything aquaponically...

I've previously run small scale hydroponics operations... about 8-10,000 holes...

And I'm in my last (diploma) year of a 4 year aquaculture study course...

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  • Rick Stillwagon

    Hi Rupert,

    Thanks for the comment on the blog.  I have corrected it.  I was getting caught up in the looks of things and trying out different pics.  I forgot that those images are proprietary and belong to others.  I will look for public domain images and my own in the future.  Thanks again.

    Rick

    Dec 5, 2011

  • Vlad Jovanovic

    Thanks for catching that Rupert, I've edited that blog and it's waiting for approval (seems to take about a day or less) to reflect the fact that you can't have the 'carbonates without the carbon' woops 

    As far as wine making shops go, you would be hard pressed to find one here, even though (or maybe because) every other villager makes their own (low quality)wine. The wine making forums here are full of comments bewildered, or perturbed about the fact that nobody can seem to buy KHCO3 here? Go figure. You can though purchase one of two products to regulate your wines pH (one of which lists KHCO3 as like 3rd on its ingredient list). The other product does not have an ingredient list? I've also called (and been to one) two laboratory supply/chemical supply places here. I can purchase all sorts of things (a lot of which I'd never be allowed to without some sort of permit/licence in the US), but no KHCO3?

    Thanks for the suggestion though, in a normal setting that is great advice...2" square egded extruded polystyrene is another one that I've gone up the distro list all the way up to the two (different brands) main importers for those products here. They have no interest in special ordering anything. There have been other seemingly innocuous materials/products that are absent in this market. Fish food formulated for RAS is another one. Thanks again.

    Jan 10, 2012

  • David Schwinghamer

    Hey mate, how is it going down under?

    Mar 27, 2012