First year
of attempting aquaponics. The tank is
4 feet deep 3 feet wide and 24
feet long. There are two grow beds Lots of room for expansion.
We hope
to keep it going till the end of October
and restart it when it thaws
out around March.
Grow little squash grow!
Purple basil is happy in the upper bed.
Yummy
duck weed!
The fish love it! I scoop out handfuls
from the floating
rafts and feed them,
the raft keeps it safe
from being eaten completely
gone.
We
are setting up this immersion heater as a heat exchanger. The tank
water is piped through a garden hose that is submersed into the very hot
water in the 55 gal drum. It returns to the tank warming the fishy water. This keeps the fish
happy and they eat better. We will be moving the stove set up inside the greenhouse as soon as we get a couple more lengths of stove pipe.
So
far it is a great experiment in growing food. We have lots of plans of
expanding and ways to keep the water warmer than the expensive electric
on-demand heater that we first tried.
