Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Hi I just joined in. Name is Virgilio Leynes from Manila Philippines, retired accountant looking for something worthwhile to spend my lots of free time. While surfing about "gardening", which is my hobby, I stumbled upon AP. I hope to learn through this forum and pass on the knowledge most especially to the poor families in my country that need this kind of technology so badly.

Hello Virley

It's great to have more people joining us, eager to learn about this great food production method

Have fun with it

Welcome Virley ,, I'll try to forget your an ex Accountant ,,

I'm spreading the word on AP into North East Thailand , I live in Aus but my wife is Thai ,, so we are both trying to help the poor. Don't be shy to ask as many questions as you like ,, there is a lot of kind, knowledgable and helpfull people here.

Welcome Virley, I am sure you will have no problem consuming time here!

Welcome aboard. I think you will find that this is one of the friendliest most informative sites you'll find. Heck, you'd think these folks frm down under we're Texans.

Hi Virley, I am sorta new to this as well, only been going a couple of months, believe me this will consume plenty of your free time, but is a great hobby that you get return from

Welcome Virley.... bounce your ideas or questions off people here.... plenty of help available... and it's free.....

WHAT? you mean joels been lying to me about the cheque being in the mail??

welcome Virley

Hi guys,

Thanks for the welcome. I am presently here in New Jersey visiting my daughter and will likely stay for about six months. Luckily, she has a small kidney shape pond in her backyard with four goldfish. Surprisingly, the fish have endured several winters and have been left to fend for themselves. They probably subsist on algae and some kind of a plant growing in the middle of the pond. I will try some experiment on AP using this pond and as soon as I get started will send pics in another thread. Thanks again.

VirLey

Enjoy your visit in 'The States' (guessing it is that New Jersey) and good luck with your littke aquaponics project.

Ron

Welcome Virley!

I have three goldfish that lived in an unattended 90 gallon pond over the Winter. The pond froze over about three times completely, and I didn't feed them and they didn't have a pump or aeration or anything. A good addition for it would be to have some low wide container of gravel and just pump up to it and let it drain right back over/down to the pond. This is an easy setup to get started growing things.

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