just read Pete's posts, he covers just about all the basics very clearly. Great posts
Dissolved oxygen is key, try to splash the water at as many places as possible
the fish ratio of 1:10 is when everything is working spot on, no room for error etc. but I can't eat or give away 100 fish, so I halve it. I normally grow murray cod, and the little ones or slow growers get eaten by larger fish, but I work my fish number based on this.
I normally have three grow beds, one of which is dedicated to herbs and I have grown garlic in that as well
Aquaponics is a lot like brewing, the basics are the basics, but many ways to skin a cat.
I started out with a foam broccoli box as a grow bed sitting over the top of my fish tank. The fish tank is now a grow bed! The foam box had holes punched in the bottom so it just drained freely. Once I got started I worked on ways to make it work better and then just got bigger and better. Looking at what was freely or cheaply available and what I needed to spend money on. I still need to put more aeration in the system, it is the most crucial thing.
In my experience, most species can tolerate higher temps, it is just at higher temps, higher DO is harder/if not impossible. So spend some money on aeration and higher temps (within reason) are less of concern.
Dissolved oxygen is key, try to splash the water at as many places as possible
the fish ratio of 1:10 is when everything is working spot on, no room for error etc. but I can't eat or give away 100 fish, so I halve it. I normally grow murray cod, and the little ones or slow growers get eaten by larger fish, but I work my fish number based on this.
I normally have three grow beds, one of which is dedicated to herbs and I have grown garlic in that as well
Aquaponics is a lot like brewing, the basics are the basics, but many ways to skin a cat.
I started out with a foam broccoli box as a grow bed sitting over the top of my fish tank. The fish tank is now a grow bed! The foam box had holes punched in the bottom so it just drained freely. Once I got started I worked on ways to make it work better and then just got bigger and better. Looking at what was freely or cheaply available and what I needed to spend money on. I still need to put more aeration in the system, it is the most crucial thing.
In my experience, most species can tolerate higher temps, it is just at higher temps, higher DO is harder/if not impossible. So spend some money on aeration and higher temps (within reason) are less of concern.