Welcome Karen... look forward to seeing things evolve...
P.S... you can never have too many tanks... or fish.... just too few growbeds...
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| Author: | karen [ Jan 5th, '10, 21:28 ] |
| Post subject: | Just getting started |
Hey folks, I am new both to this board and to aquaponics. I have helped with some larger scale operations in the past and have decided to try one in my living room. I have entirely too many fish and entirely too many fish tanks, most of which have entirely too much light on them, so I thought I would give it a try. Currently I am building a small "test set up" that will be a single tray holding 7 plants on a small tank. Once we have our design figured out, we will put at least 6 trays (about 10 plants each) on to a 210 gallon tank. We plan to grow lettuce and spinach for now, but hope to expand to other things including snow peas and green beans when we are ready. I have lettuce and spinach seeds sprouting in some soil right now and will transfer them in a week or two. |
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| Author: | RupertofOZ [ Jan 5th, '10, 21:59 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just getting started |
Welcome Karen... look forward to seeing things evolve... P.S... you can never have too many tanks... or fish.... just too few growbeds...
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| Author: | TCLynx [ Jan 5th, '10, 22:38 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just getting started |
Yep sounds like time to get the nitrates working for you rather than causing you work doing water changes 
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| Author: | creative1 [ Jan 5th, '10, 22:42 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just getting started |
Welcome Karen 
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| Author: | Dave Donley [ Jan 6th, '10, 01:01 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just getting started |
Welcome Karen!! |
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| Author: | karen [ Feb 1st, '10, 04:46 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just getting started |
Thank you. the first grow bed is going fantastically. I am a little shocked at how fast the stuff is growing. I have some lettuce and a random cucumber (I think) in the first bed. I germinated using some old peat that I had used last year and a random seed germinated out of it. I think its a cucumber. More beds will be built soon now that the first "design" version is going. |
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