Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

So ive been cycling my system. Had an ammonia issue but once that balances out I plan to stock again. I wasnt planning to do edible fish this year being its my first go around and was planning with just sticking to goldies. Yet, now that things are built Im feeling anxious. Although now I find that half the amazing fish that could be stocked in my FT are not readily available in the US or at least for me here in GA. I guess GA has a need for a permit to stock blue tilapia. I'd really like to grow and consume myself, non commercial, but Im not looking to drop a ton of money for some permit. Im located North East Georgia. Hartwell to be exact. Any ideas what fish options I could go with? Edible worth while fish that is.

Oh and I was primarily thinking vegetarian fish mostly I guess since I started growing duckweed for fish feed.

Catfish? Still think you'll need to use a commercial food to supply nutrients for plants. Minor and Majors usually need a quality commercial feed. You can supplement with duckweed, insects, ect. I could be woron on this, but from what I've seen and researched, the best results came from using a quality feed and then supplementing Fe as needed.

Not sure what a "woron" is, but it should read "wrong".lol

Yes I am aware I cant just use duck weed alone. I was looking into blue gills. Found a place or two that will sell me slightly larger than finglerlings. I changed my set up and the bottoms of my SLOs have spaces that could probably suck up a fish an inch or smaller. Any one recommend blue gills?

I am using Bluegills. I caught them at a local community pond. A lot more fun than buying them.

So far I haven't lost any. Took them a while to get used to pellets. It may have been quicker but they developed an affinity to red wigglers from the worm bin and it was fun to watch them scarf them up.

Khill we are of the same mind. I literally bought a small fishing rod and gear tonight after work and plan to acquire some myself come monday. I live minutes from a enormous lake and many water ways. Figured Id take advantage of it.