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Jean Allen
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  • Kingman, AZ
  • 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?
aquaponics floor plan
Are you an aquaponic gardener already?
No
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)
Tilapia, Catfish
How big is your fish tank?
1,000 liters
Please tell us something else about yourself.
Have experimented (played) in the past. Now very serious. Want to grow my own veggies and herbs as well as grow a few fish to eat.

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At 12:23pm on July 30, 2012, Tom Hickey said…

A message from Jean Allen to all members of Arizona Aquaponics on Aquaponic Gardening!

My husband and I have had two aquaponic systems in the past 10 years, both of which we treated very casually as a low key experiment. However. Times are different now, and we want to consider it as a means to have fresh raw fruit and veggies at hand as well as fresh fish. Living in Kingman, temperatures can get into the 110s on some days, so we don't know if we should have an outside greenhouse (the summers are brutal) or have the system inside? Any thoughts on this issue?

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 live in Phoenix so I know how hot it can be. I too wanted to expand so I bought a greenhouse from Sams Club. I built  new system with food grade blue drums and placed a Tilapia in the tank. I thought he will be my Ginny pig. He was fine until it got up to 110 than he died. The water got to hot for him. To be honest I was more concerned about leaching some chemical from the blue drum and at first I thought that's what happened. When I went to fish him out I noticed the water was like a sauna. I felt very bad for him. I know I raise them to eat but to slow cook him was terrible. So my thought is if you put it in a green house consider the heat. To me if you have to use a chiller or cool the greenhouse it no longer becomes cost effective. I have been trying to conger up a system like an evaporation cooler but that means using power.

At 11:46am on July 26, 2012, Sylvia Bernstein said…

Welcome Jean!

 

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 get in there and start asking questions.  Everyone is quite happy to help out new members--no question is too basic. 

 

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 Home page.  You might also find the “Aquaponic Gardening Rules of Thumb” guidelines helpful.

 

Please add a profile image, participate and check in with us every day!  We are constantly posting news about aquaponics and the good food movement.

 

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

 

Sylvia 

 
 
 

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