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alexuk
 Post subject: Hello from the UK
PostPosted: Mar 9th, '10, 22:26 

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Hi everyone!!!!
Well i have been lurking about on the forum for a few days and thought i best say Hello. :wave1:
I am really, really glad i found you all as my friends think I am a little bit bonkers when I start talking about aquaponics! :blob:
There is soooooooooooo much info on here it is unreal!!! well hope to chat to everyone alot more very soon! :wav: :wav:
Alex
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RupertofOZ
 Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK
PostPosted: Mar 9th, '10, 22:46 
Welcome Alex... your "bonkishness" will be accepted... and understood around here mate...
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 Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK
PostPosted: Mar 10th, '10, 06:01 
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Yes - you are bonkers....but so are all of us... :lol: :lol: :lol:
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PostPosted: Mar 10th, '10, 06:09 
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Welcome Alex,

you're not bonkers, everyone who doesn't get it is :D
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PostPosted: Mar 10th, '10, 07:05 
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alexuk wrote:
Hi everyone!!!!
Well i have been lurking about on the forum for a few days and thought i best say Hello. :wave1:
I am really, really glad i found you all as my friends think I am a little bit bonkers when I start talking about aquaponics! :blob:
There is soooooooooooo much info on here it is unreal!!! well hope to chat to everyone alot more very soon! :wav: :wav:
Alex


Welcome! I can empathize with you. My buddy from college once gave me the weirdest look when I told him I could grow plants in his dorm closet without sunlight or soil... Boy did I prove him wrong! Ahh I could only imagine the reaction if I knew back then what I know now and added a fish tank to the setup!
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 Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK
PostPosted: Mar 10th, '10, 12:07 
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Greetings, if they think your bonkers now wait till you tell them how you plan to cycle your system with humonia :pottytrain5:
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PostPosted: Mar 10th, '10, 12:10 
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Greetings, if they think your bonkers now wait till you tell them how you plan to cycle your system with humonia :pottytrain5:


and don't forget the rabbits and chooks suspended above the fish....ya you're really off the wall then!
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alexuk
 Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK
PostPosted: Mar 10th, '10, 17:03 

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Thank you all for your warm welcomes!!! :wave: I think I am gonna fit in well around here!
And no i havent told anyone about using humonia yet :director:
My mum is now coming to understand the idea of aqauponics and she wants one!!! :toothy7: and my brother thinks its a fab idea! :headbang: So not EVERYONE thinks i am bonkers but most do!! and i must admit i am keeping very quiet about aquaponics at least until i have a system set up and working then i will be having everyone round to have a look!!!
Alex
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 Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK
PostPosted: Mar 11th, '10, 19:35 
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Hi Alex,
Welcome !
Nice to see another UK AP enthusiast.
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PostPosted: Mar 11th, '10, 21:09 
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Yeah, I also am from the UK. Currently living in London. Trying to buy a small holding in the Somerset/Dorset/Wiltshire area to setup an Aquaponics based business.

So you're not alone.
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alexuk
 Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK
PostPosted: Mar 11th, '10, 22:37 

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hello to uk peeps!!! it is nice to know i am not the only one in the Uk !!! speak soon! :wave1:
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welcome to the maddness!!!!
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alexuk
 Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK
PostPosted: Apr 2nd, '10, 20:55 

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Hi again everyone!! I have been lurking and not posting! bad bad very bad! i know but dont feel like i know enough yet to post.
Anyhow, things here are ok........ I have now got my wormery up and running.
I am trying to sort out starting a small backyard aquaponics system up but (and i knew you were waiting for the but!) funds are low! very low as in not even there kinda low!!!!
Ok so in a perfected world I would have £200,000 to play with and get a large system up and running and paying for its self by xmas! :lol: oh and i would be able to pay someone else to do all the hard work!!! oh how i wish!! :laughing3: in the mean time until I win the lotto I am just gonna go play with my worms some more.
hope you r all ok byeeeeee Alex
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RupertofOZ
 Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK
PostPosted: Apr 3rd, '10, 03:34 
Welcome Alex... no need to feel bad about lack of funding mate... most of us are in the same boat...

But the beauty of aquaponics is that you can start small... and grow....

Have a look around for something like the 1000L IBC containers for a fish tank... and bins/drums for growbeds... and contact some of the other UK members...

You might be surprised just what sort of results you can get from a small systems... and it's a great way to start and learn... :wink:

Jump in and get your feet wet mate....
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Hey alex...you could likely get a system up and going for next to nothing...look in the skips around town, someone somewhere is tossing out some containers. Even an old drawer from a chest could be lined and used as a growbed. Craigslist (over here at least) is a good place to score cheap stuff...sometimes even free. http://london.craigslist.co.uk/ Friends and family will often offer to give you things you need also. Just ask mum if she has some old plastic containers she whould not mind parting with. I have a borrowed pond pump on mine and the timer my neighbor gave to me for free. Still trying to figure it out though.

Good luck and don't be dishearted that the funds are not there....just get creative with what you have available.

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