I have kept a 40g tank with nothing fancy, angelfish, picasimus, clown fish ...
I have caught a bug to try something called aquaponics.
Basically setting up a flow loop of tanks fish -> bedded plants and vermiculture (cleaning water) -> bloom tank for good algea and duckweed (partial feed for fish) -> back to fish
This site seems more for decorative fish. But I joined and have learned a bit already.
My goal right now is to set up one cold freshwater water tank, and if successful, try again with a warm freshwater tank.
It is popular to set these things up in ugly buckets, but I want to make one that is nice enough to act as a centerpiece. The reason being, is I want it to be proof of concept and that would be attractive to someone who is otherwise ignorant or disinterested. So that in turn I could use it as an example when seeking financing to setup a farm big enough to at least break even, and maybe double as an aquarium for regional fish. Where I live there are only old school fish farms, and all rest of the fish in the store comes in frozen and tastes bad. I like eating fish, when I catch it or am close to the coast.
Warm water fish generally grow faster, but to raise them cost efficiently here would require evacuated tube heating and a greenhouse. Which I can't get a permit for where I am living at this time.
What I got to work with now, I live in a semi-arid environment. I am planning on setting this up in my basement with concrete floors. The floor is not very level though. The basement has no history of flooding or moisture issues (50+ year old house). It is cold through most the year, so for that period lamps won't be wasteful, in the summer I will rotate the plants outside. I am aiming for a 1000 gallon tank, with 2000 gallons of bedding. The bedding level ebbs and flows, so I am estimating, there will be about actually be at most 2700 gallons in the system at any given moment. The issues I foresee now is, limiting evaporation and energy use, while maximizing aeration. Finding legal/code issues and proper insurance.
I would appreciate any volunteer advice to my goals, and hopefully post updates on my progress, but I am working on a budget so it may will be slow I got too many questions and hopefully I will find some of it here. I will keep looking, thanks in advance
I have caught a bug to try something called aquaponics.
Basically setting up a flow loop of tanks fish -> bedded plants and vermiculture (cleaning water) -> bloom tank for good algea and duckweed (partial feed for fish) -> back to fish
This site seems more for decorative fish. But I joined and have learned a bit already.
My goal right now is to set up one cold freshwater water tank, and if successful, try again with a warm freshwater tank.
It is popular to set these things up in ugly buckets, but I want to make one that is nice enough to act as a centerpiece. The reason being, is I want it to be proof of concept and that would be attractive to someone who is otherwise ignorant or disinterested. So that in turn I could use it as an example when seeking financing to setup a farm big enough to at least break even, and maybe double as an aquarium for regional fish. Where I live there are only old school fish farms, and all rest of the fish in the store comes in frozen and tastes bad. I like eating fish, when I catch it or am close to the coast.
Warm water fish generally grow faster, but to raise them cost efficiently here would require evacuated tube heating and a greenhouse. Which I can't get a permit for where I am living at this time.
What I got to work with now, I live in a semi-arid environment. I am planning on setting this up in my basement with concrete floors. The floor is not very level though. The basement has no history of flooding or moisture issues (50+ year old house). It is cold through most the year, so for that period lamps won't be wasteful, in the summer I will rotate the plants outside. I am aiming for a 1000 gallon tank, with 2000 gallons of bedding. The bedding level ebbs and flows, so I am estimating, there will be about actually be at most 2700 gallons in the system at any given moment. The issues I foresee now is, limiting evaporation and energy use, while maximizing aeration. Finding legal/code issues and proper insurance.
I would appreciate any volunteer advice to my goals, and hopefully post updates on my progress, but I am working on a budget so it may will be slow I got too many questions and hopefully I will find some of it here. I will keep looking, thanks in advance
