Backyard Aquaponics
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Wasn't aware the package made it significantly less. I was pricing it individually. Thanks for the heads up.

The stubborn side of me might still take a jab at the diy, but I have a good limit financially to go off of.

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I'm selling some of my gently used towers off (They are the Zipgrow towers.)

Last spring I had twice as many towers on the system but experienced a temperature swing problem. Unfortunately while the Zipgrow towers are great filtration, they are also really effective heat exchangers so in my totally outdoor unheated/unchilled system here in inland central FL, last spring when we were getting cool nights and Hot days having 100 towers on the system with only 1300 gallons of fish tank and 2000+ gallons of raft bed was actually causing the water temperature to swing by more than 10 degrees F each day which was putting the fish off their feed and leaving me short of nutrients for the plants.

The towers are the bomb for saving space/using all the light in a controlled environment situation but when running spread out outdoors, one might want to carefully watch temperatures to avoid heating up too fast during the day and then chilling down too much overnight. I'm NOT willing to spend money on heating/cooling for outdoor systems.

A note, flood and drain media beds also act as heat exchangers BUT they have their own built in Thermal mass which tends to cause a delay in their heat exchange and so they are not nearly as extreme as having too much NFT on a system.