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Arizona Aquaponics

Helping each other to learn and grow big nutritious plants and fish to help feed the world.

Location: Phoenix
Members: 230
Latest Activity: Oct 7, 2019

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Comment by Stephanie Bader on July 19, 2014 at 3:42pm
What are the temperature requirements for them?
Comment by Matt Miskinnis on July 19, 2014 at 3:34pm

Dr Brooks, with the shrimp, is it more about the separation and hiding places?  I would love to try raising shrimp but I would think you would need a much larger tank because each shrimp would need so much space or they will attack each other.  Am I correct on that?

Comment by Jeff S on July 19, 2014 at 8:43am

Wow! What a concept. This will be interesting.

Comment by Dr. George B. Brooks, Jr. on July 19, 2014 at 8:40am

Trying something new today (7/16/2014). Using new ideas and new growing conditions let’s see how fast these things really grow (Macrobrachium rosenbergii). We will see them again on which ever comes first, October 16th 2014 or 70 degree F water. Tilapia is in 4th place but shrimp is the number one most consumed seafood in the United States. (http://bit.ly/1yuys68). The problem is that almost all the shrimp we consume comes from out of country sources. If this experiment works, maybe can start to change that.

P.S. Just for the record, this sustainable species can grow to more than 1 pound in size.

Comment by Jefferson Raebel on July 18, 2014 at 12:23pm

Megan and I are ready to put fish in our tank. The water chemistry is right and holly crap our plants are doing so good, we even have an egg plant that just popped out. We are excited and this has been a long time coming. Planning building and what not. We really would like to have a good first stock of good quality Tilapia. We have bread tanks and are looking forward to expanding the grow bed square footage soon. Right now we would like to get about 14 fingerlings to start. Our grow bed will support up to 7 full grown but we will be tripling that area soon.  Does anyone have a suggestion to were we should get our fish. We will in the far North Phoenix area.

Comment by Jeff S on July 16, 2014 at 6:54pm

On Friday Aaron talked about his Tilapia changing color and producing fry. I have 14- 5-6" Tilapia in an aquarium and I noticed one in the past changing color. Didn't know why. Now I have 3 that changed color and one is being very aggressive and not eating. She also likes to hang out in the corner with a piece of PVC. Who'd have thought at that size they'd be reproducing. Thanks Aaron. BTW I have about 800 in an IBC. There's no telling what they're up to.

Comment by Dr. George B. Brooks, Jr. on July 15, 2014 at 7:11am

Making progress. Last night's meeting of the Arizona Aquaculture Association 7/14/2014)

Comment by Stephanie Bader on July 14, 2014 at 1:59pm

@Bob each tower has a valve on it and i just adjusted each one to be only partially open till the water got to the end. 

Comment by Robert Rowe on July 14, 2014 at 1:47pm

2014-07-14 Hello every one. Its nice to see our group has grown so much while I have been sidelined with Bi-Lateral Knee replacements. 13 weeks and doing fine. I lost about 12 BIG Talapia but have in the past week discovered a school of 2" fry in my 700 gallon tank.

I found a possible new component for our systems; a wet filter cartridge, Rigid VF7000.  I will follow my progress on my blog.

Comment by Jeff S on July 14, 2014 at 1:43pm

I'm no expert with the towers but I would rum PVC over them with short 1/4" drip lines and just toss em when they clog. I'm experimenting wit 1 tower now and I just ran an open 1/4" line and regulated water flow.

 

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