Aquaponics Digest - Thu 07/01/99
Message 1: Re: Tilapia feed - Chinese water spinach
from Adriana Gutierrez & Dennis LaGatta
Message 4: My friends call me Rocky
from Peggy & Emmett
Message 5: Gravel wash
from William Evans
Message 6: Re: Any watercress data?
from "TGTX"
Message 7: Re: My friends call me Rocky
from "TGTX"
Message 8: Re: My friends call me Rocky
from S & S Aqua Farm
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Subject: Re: Tilapia feed - Chinese water spinach
From: Adriana Gutierrez & Dennis LaGatta
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 02:17:46 -0400
A web seach on Chinese Water Spinach brought up this web site which
indicates that water spinach is a highly invasive plant undesirable
plant in waterways in warm areas:
http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/mcplnt1r.html
The growth statistics for it are fantastic.
Adriana
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Subject: My friends call me Rocky
From: Peggy & Emmett
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 20:04:40 -0400
Hi to Tom, Paula, Adriana, Dan, and fellow Aquaponikers.
Today, at 1130 EDT, I finished washing 24000 pounds of pea gravel.
And Tom, you sly rascal, never told me how much fun it would be.
For those of you who might be reading this with little interest or plan to
build a system some day that's
TWELVE TONS
Aaaaarrrrgggghhhh. Press on. .....Em
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Subject: Gravel wash
From: William Evans
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 17:15:40 -0700
So what was the methodology? bleach ,and deterrgent roughly?
billevans
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Subject: Re: Any watercress data?
From: "TGTX"
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 19:17:00 -0500
Watercress grows wildly in my system. I have not grown it in some time.
Can't recall the reaction of the tilapia to it when I threw it in the fish
tank,
but as I recall, they ate it all.
Ted
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Subject: Re: My friends call me Rocky
From: "TGTX"
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 19:33:13 -0500
Hey, Emmet, I can relate.
The accompanying music might be
"Rocky's Strong Now" as Rocky screams..
"Hey..Adrian...I wanna grow ya some salad and fish"
I have about 360,000 lbs of gravel in my system (give or take a few tons).
My biceps and pects are bigger as a result , but who cares about that
(besides the multitude of aquaponic groupies)..?
I repent.
But aint it fun? Next time...let's resolve to do this with basalt in lunar
gravity!
Makes me envious of the perlite crowd, for sure.
Ted
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Subject: Re: My friends call me Rocky
From: S & S Aqua Farm
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 20:18:36 -0500
At 08:04 PM 7/1/99 -0400, Emmett wrote:
>Hi to Tom, Paula, Adriana, Dan, and fellow Aquaponikers.
>
>Today, at 1130 EDT, I finished washing 24000 pounds of pea gravel.
>And Tom, you sly rascal, never told me how much fun it would be.
>For those of you who might be reading this with little interest or plan to
>build a system some day that's
>
>TWELVE TONS
>
>Aaaaarrrrgggghhhh. Press on. .....Em
and Ted added:
>Hey, Emmet, I can relate.
>The accompanying music might be
>"Rocky's Strong Now" as Rocky screams..
>"Hey..Adrian...I wanna grow ya some salad and fish"
>
>I have about 360,000 lbs of gravel in my system (give or take a few tons).
>My biceps and pects are bigger as a result , but who cares about that
>(besides the multitude of aquaponic groupies)..?
>I repent.
>
>But aint it fun? Next time...let's resolve to do this with basalt in lunar
>gravity!
ROFLMAO!!! - Somehow I remember Tom mentioning that the cleaning and hauling
of the gravel for the grow beds was best hired out to "young" men and/or
women as a paying alternative to workouts to keep in shape. Not that you
two aren't young in spirit, but testing your bodies this way should be
posted "filling multiple grow beds with gravel may be hazardous to your
___________". You fill in the blanks based on what hurts the most.
Tom says to look on the bright side---- think of the dollars saved in gym
memberships, the cost of body-building machines or videos, etc. When your
wives start buying you muscle tees instead of pruning shears, you'll know
you have it made.
Then again, we think you're using the perfect media, and it actually only
has to be done once. Gravel is great media for your bacteria, gives you
mineralization for pH buffering and micro dosage addition for your plants
and fish. It's reusable, should not need cleaning ever again, gives your
plants less stress when transplanting, cultivates easily when you change
crops, not to mention the feeling of accomplishment you obviously feel today.
Great to hear from you, and keep us posted on your progress, please.
Paula and Tom
S&S Aqua Farm, 8386 County Road 8820, West Plains, MO 65775 417-256-5124
Web page http://www.townsqr.com/snsaqua/
S&S Aqua Farm, 8386 County Road 8820, West Plains, MO 65775 417-256-5124
Web page http://www.townsqr.com/snsaqua/
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