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Author:  Denny [ Sep 30th, '13, 11:11 ]
Post subject:  Texas, Houston

Up and running in Alief, Finally cycled in. ph is still high made a few mistakes with building materials and growing mediums. Now I can start making it pretty. Then the ever popular, never ending expansions.

Author:  RupertofOZ [ Sep 30th, '13, 17:55 ]
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Welcome Denny

Author:  Zubin [ Sep 30th, '13, 18:48 ]
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Few pictures would be good!

Welcome to the world of Aquaponics.

Author:  MartinC [ Sep 30th, '13, 21:28 ]
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Welcome Denny. I look forward to seeing your system.

Regards, Martin.

Author:  helomech [ Sep 30th, '13, 23:53 ]
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Welcome.

Author:  Denny [ Oct 1st, '13, 09:52 ]
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I gave up on soil gardening. Last couple of summers have been brutal. When I heard about Aquaponics and started researching, I saw a lot of different ideas. Figured I'd just jump in and figure it out as I go.

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Author:  Denny [ Oct 1st, '13, 10:03 ]
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Here is pretty much where it is now. When the weather cools down a little I'll put the ends on the green house. I used buckets on 4X4 spanning the "tank" as my grow beds. Now I'm building my full size Grow beds and will start re-plumbing the system as I bring them on line. Auto-siphons in 5 gallon buckets are at best cantankerous.

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Author:  Tricerix [ Oct 1st, '13, 10:10 ]
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Heyowdy from Conroe.

Author:  dlwenzel [ Oct 29th, '13, 15:57 ]
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"if you don't start somewhere, you will never get anywhere"...

next week i start on my 10x12 poly greenhouse. water barrels and rock floor for passive solar to temper against Feb freezes here in dallas (-20F for 2 weeks a couple of years ago!)

then my tank and beds move in, assemble piping and valves, transplant my square foot garden seedlings into the grow beds, get some sacrificial fish - by spring i'm in business! (after i've killed enough fish thru ignorance and bad luck i will stock with bluegill)

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