Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Hey!!! this looks like a very cool forum to be in.
I didn't see anything about Canada here, so I named the topic accordingly.
I live in Alberta, close to two large test facilities on aquaponics and the economic suitability of the systems. A larger test facility in Brooks Alberta with was taken over from the college and is now personally owned and operated, and one in Lethbridge Alberta which is still in the hands of the college.
I do not have a backyard system myself, but I did help my younger brother build a small project for a science fare in grade 7 (2013 and ongoing). I only have feeder gold fish in the system. but the vegies we are growing are quite a veriety. I want to build a small greenhouse for aquaponics once, but with post secondary school coming soon, the cash cow isn't looking that big anymore.
I'm not going to post any pictures of the system just yet, but I'm more interested in weether anybody else is having success in Canada without a huge heating bill for the winter.
I will probably try to use geo thermal heat for my greenhouse when I get to builsing it, but that still may not be enough. Any suggestiong for heating?
Cheers

Hey, First post for me. I'm in the Okanagan in BC. I have yet to build my AP setup, but I am slowly gathering the materials.

I have a system I'm working on now in my shop, would like to build a green in time
This has been a fun Project just added 24 gold fishy

I am Canadian. I am also from out west in Victoria BC. I am on an internship building a CHIFT PIST system in Belize but I will be back at my University in Waterloo, Ontario this summer and I will hopefully build several more of them.

You're far from being alone guys. See the link below.

http://aquaponics.uwaterloo.ca/

Any pics?

I have a small setup in Mission, BC (1 hr outside of Vancouver). Should be interesting to see if I can get everything to live through the winter. Its an outdoor setup.

just finishing a backyard IBC system on north Van Island wondering what fish to try here

Trout would be a likely candidate.

Eheye .... I too am in mission and looking into starting a small backyard system. Would be interested to know what you have set up. Given our colder winters it seems koi, catfish or trout are our options. I am not keen on eating koi or catfish, and trout sound hard to raise. Look forward to hearing from you.



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That's a shame - catfish is a great eating fish with nice white flesh, and I'm not sure why you think there's anything hard about raising trout!

Just what I have read about them with oxygen and running water. You don't think they hard to raise? Isn't catfish bony?


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Well, you're talking about an aquaponics system - there has to be running water anyway.

What did you read about oxygen ? Remember, cold water holds a lot more oxygen than warm water. Unless you overstock your system, oxygen shouldn't be an issue. Read through this forum, there's plenty of people growing them out - it can't be hard (and isn't).

Catfish bony? Nope.

We're in Surrey, BC. Another Wet Coaster.
We're making an insulated grow room for IBCs. Will have tilapia and trouts.
So far I've had a successful test system in the living room. But we want bigger.

I'm in PEI!

I just learned about AP yesterday but I'm so excited to get started. I'm still wading through information in the planning stages and right now have more questions than answers. I'm thinking of doing a cold weather set up in my (unheated) garage and then moving outside in the summer. Trying to keep heating and lighting costs to a minimum so I'm researching my butt off right now.

I am in New Brunswick Canada. I am just getting my Ap system built over the next couple days. Recycled an old car shelter into a greenhouse, have an intex softsided pool for my pond, and half barrels for my grow beds. I will post pictures once I have it built...


Cheers

Marj