Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

volunteer! - I don't need to, have enough friends on the forum to do that for me

I like to do nice things for my friends

so you want to put in autosiphons then?

Yes autosiphons should go in the AP dictionary Les is doing.

Jaymie is too busy farming rocks for subduing crocs.

And I thought I was badass hunting eels with a tomahawk

(tomahawk - AP tomato vendor)

I've just planted some Lupins.....have read through the big PDF file and a few other publications.

Has anyone grown their own Lupins for fish food yet?

I haven't grown my own, but I was given a big bucket full by a farmer.. I'm yet to give them a serious try, I sprouted a small container full and fed it to the SP, they ate most of it, didn;t particularly like...

Hmm...I was thinking more of grinding the seed up and making it into pellets, most likely mixed with a few other things.

Sprouts might be the best bet. I was reading in Resh's _Hydroponci Food Production_ about some experiments with sprouting grass seeds hydroponically -- they would grow the seeds on NFT trays until the mess was about 3 to 4" thick and then feed the whole pad to cows. Rather like a bovine granola bar, I guess. Supposedly the nutrients are much higher sprouted than not -- they animals loved them and gave more milk with much higher cream content.

Yep, green fooder... You can now buy fodder farms that are basically a shed filled with trays, it spits out a number of them every day... Very effective feed source, there was a mailing group that started through the Speraeos group, it might be worth checking out for further info...

Like this recent eBay auction ....

My Ol Pop used to get a bucket of lupins after they had been through a hammer mill and feed them to his kunacks (aka yabbies), he was a farmer so its probably a lot more convienient for him than anythign else

NIce..... do you know how much it went for Rup?

Can't find the bookmark EB.... from memory they quoted $80,000 new and was listed as $25,000 Buy-It-Now, come and dismantle it and take it away....

Was absolutely complete, fans, temp control, nutrient tester/diffuser etc

Produced over 1 Tonne per week...

Wouldn't be that hard to make something yourself to do the same job.

Having joined the forum 3 days earlier than Jaymie, Les, you can always pull rank. Just don't tell anyone i suggested it! Oh, and thank you AA for the interesting read.