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...
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.
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.
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