Nice ...fish farming is a very interesting and rewarding venture...ive been looking at raising fish myself looking at cold water species though..the company i work for raises talapia to the southern somwhere. Enjoy and keep us up to date with how things are coming along...
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Downhome you have gotten into all sorts of projects that I've been wanting to do but alas lack of time and funds kind've limited that.
Now are you going for an aquaponics or an aquaculture setup? If you go with the aquaponics what kind've plants do you plan to grow, and how do you plan to set it up? I think If you wanted to grow something like tomates running some 4+ inch pvc over the top of the barrels would accomplish allowing a place to grow the plants. And would be relatively simple. 3" pots on top timer allows water from tanks to flood pvc and drains through holes back into tank couple times a day. Would definietly help with filtration.
Now if you go with the aquaculture set up how do you plan on filtering the water?
Definitely a awesome deal and great project.
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Post by patricimo54 on May 17, 2012 22:14:34 GMT -5
Aquaponics has always interested me. I have way to many desires/ventures that I would like to embark on, but first I need to loose the day job.
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Will you be trying to breed your own tilapia or are ya gonna purchase them and raise up and repeat?
I gotta say downhome you are breaking into all the little adventures I wanted to try out.
I wonder if keeping a pleco or crayfish in there would help in the cleaning of the tank enough to justifiy putting them in. I also wonder how well doing this during the winter would work? Maybe make a black cover to wrap around the barrels to absorb heat from the sun?
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One thing that I have been interested in is raising some sort of fast growing crawfish. I think there's an Asian red claw that's suppose to grow as big as a chicken lobster. I haven't researched anything yet but one of these days I'll look into it.
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Thats a pretty good return 1 pound for one pound...thats what we get here on cod fish well maybe a little better. There raised in pens in the wild so they get x amount of natural feed. Then theres canabalism because some grow so fast. There's a pecking order in the pen and the more aggressive feed first so they grow larger and eat the small. We are in the process of growing mussels out around the pens. They grow extremely fast because of the fish waist and help clean the water. After the seed mussels grow to 3/8 to1/2" we harvest them and sell them to another company that grows them out to market size about 1 1/2 to 2". Me and a buddy are starting our own buisness and are working on getting our tanks. We were thinking of placing them in the ground then putting a covered building over them. We figure we can control the temp beter through the seasons with them in the ground warmer in the winter cooler in the summer. I like your idea of growing plants...i love playing with this stuff it the future why not be a part of it ..i think it's cool...
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We were thinking of placing them in the ground then putting a covered building over them. We figure we can control the temp beter through the seasons with them in the ground warmer in the winter cooler in the summer.
That's a pretty good idea and I'll keep that in mind if I ever start the crawdad thng. DH, you're right about the Red claws, they are Austrailian not Asian. I must have been thinking about the buffet again.
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Thanks for the tip downhome..yep i have access to some pretty big fiberglass tanks from a salmon hatchery..we bought some at work and my buddies been working on adeal to get the rest of them...Mark we have been talking about trying a tank of shinners to see how things grow...It's alot of work and going to be atleast a year before we can get started.....
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Post by adksasquatch on May 29, 2012 19:43:33 GMT -5
I've wanted to get into this for a while. One problem with Tilapia is that they are a warm water species. Perch seems like a better option for cooler climates. I'm thinking of doing this with a 20 gal. fish tank and a single tray of lettuce of a few tomato plants or something. It doesn't have to be that big of a system. I've seen video of a 10 gal. tank and a small tote full of herbs and lettuce in a NYC apt. Let me know how this works for you.
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