Aquaponics Digest - Fri 05/25/01



Message   1: Re: Floating Beds
.again
             from LC543119 'at' aol.com

Message   2: Re: Floating Beds
.again
             from LC543119 'at' aol.com

Message   3: Re: Intro/Background and a question
             from "Devon Williams" 

Message   4: RE: Intro/Background and a question
             from "Carol" 

Message   5: Re: Aquaponics Digest - Thu 05/24/01
             from DAVEINBHAM 'at' aol.com

Message   6: Re: Floating Beds
.again
             from "Ada Erickson" 

Message   7: Re: Aquaponics Digest - Thu 05/24/01
             from marc 'at' aculink.net

Message   8: Re: Intro/Background and a question
             from dreadlox 'at' cwjamaica.com

Message   9: Mike/All
             from "Ada Erickson" 

Message  10: Re: "Giving Up!"
             from Jim 

Message  11: Re: Aquaponics Digest - Thu 05/24/01
             from "gutierrez-lagatta" 

Message  12: Re: Mike/All
             from dreadlox 'at' cwjamaica.com

Message  13: Aquaponic Group Bookmark list Version 1
             from dreadlox 'at' cwjamaica.com

| Message 1  

Subject: Re: Floating Beds
.again
From:    LC543119 'at' aol.com
Date:    Fri, 25 May 2001 09:43:34 EDT

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Wylie, you can read about my last instalation in Suriname in the March April 
Growing Edge magazine and the last two issues of the Aquaponic Journal, this 
was a 30,000 sq ft system in an old warehouse. Gordon Creaser

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Wylie, you can read about my last instalation
in Suriname in the March April 

Growing Edge magazine and the last two issues of the Aquaponic Journal, this
was a 30,000 sq ft system in an old warehouse. Gordon Creaser
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very little time to spend much time on the list,Adriana keeps me informed if
any comes up . Gordon Creaser
--part1_7f.14d5c0fb.283fbcf3_boundary-- | Message 3 Subject: Re: Intro/Background and a question From: "Devon Williams" Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 10:34:55 -0400 Um, well, since Bill so slyly coaxed me out of the woodwork, I guess I'll bite .(being a teacher, the end of the school year is a pretty crazy time, so I have done very little in the way of emailing .) My name is Devon Williams, I am a Technology Education teacher at McConnell Middle School in Loganville, GA (Loganville is a speck on the map just east of downtown Atlanta). I became interested in aquaponics while researching hydroponics when I felt my class did not incorporate enough material on bio-related technology. I found the S&S website, and quickly purchased the information packet for starting a system .this was in 1996. Five years and six grant applications later, I was fortunate to be one of the first teachers to earn a grant from a local foundation set up to support the area's schools directly. As Steve Spring has had a laugh about in the past, I received a whopping $1000.00 from the Grayson foundation. I also got a $300 donation from a local environmental management company, and my gravel for my grow bed was donated by one of my school's business partners - a local granite quarry. Soooooooo, I had $1300.00 plus some materials, and I was ready!!! I finally got set up at the end of March, 2001 and ordered my fish from John Harbuck in Floralla, AL .Lucky for me that John is a very nice guy, because he is willing to sell his fish to other educators just for the price of shipping!!! This worked out well since the lowest quote I got from hatcheries was $310 for about 60 fish, and $500 for about 3000 fish!!!! Funny how that works .so, John sent me 160 hybrid, mixed-sex tilapia. When I first put them into my system, I hadn't realized how incredibly strong my fish tank sump pump was, and it promptly sucked a huge number of the poor little guys up against the intake grate killing many instantly, and weakening a great many more. Then, if that weren't enough .those fish that were weakened by the pump trauma got blasted by the soaring ammonia and nitrite levels while the gravel bed adjusted itself .Total lost was about 65 fish .so, I have just under one hundred in the tank now doing just fine! To give a little background, Technology Education (formerly Industrial Arts) is set up in a modular form so that students spend ten days at a time learning about an area of technology such as robotics, audio broadcasting, CAD, electricity, aerospace, .The curriculum mentioned below made the aquaponics lab a new module in my room, so it functions the same way as the rest of the class. During the time it took to set the system up, I began writing the curriculum for the module. As I wrote the curriculum, I made a pretty big decision. I am currently working on my doctoral degree in Occupational Studies / Technology Education. To this point I had not decided on a topic for my dissertation, but I had considered Appropriate Technology from some vantage point .So, to make a long story even longer (you asked for it, Bill)I am now looking at the theory of situated cognition as it relates to teaching appropriate technology (aquaponics) in a modular setting .In other words, using this modular approach to find out how kids learn best (in what situation). Before a lot of questions come at me, please understand that I am not even scratching the surface of the theoretical framework yet, so I may not be able to answer them .Although I've been told I can "BS" with the best of them! ;-) So, that's me! I do have a website (explaining my class, as well as the system). You can find it at http://www.mindspring.com/~mcconnellms/staff/dwilliams When you get to the main page click on the "More" button, then click on the "Projects" button to see the front page of the aquaponics information. Be sure to click on the blinking "Here" near the bottom of that page. I am going to update the page today, but it won't take effect until it gets uploaded tonight around midnight. Thanks for listening. Devon Williams >From: Bill Patrick >Reply-To: aquaponics 'at' townsqr.com >To: aquaponics 'at' townsqr.com >Subject: Re: Intro/Background and a question >Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:08:20 -0400 > >Nice webpage Ada, thanks for taking the time to get it started. Now >come on everybody don't be "stick in the muds". Go ahead and have a >little bio posted and link to your web page if you have one (I don't to >pick on anyone but their initials are Devon). Over the past year guys >really haven't been shy about where you live, what you do for regular >jobs or what your interests in aquaponics are. Also any suppliers on >the list that support us, this would make a nice place to have links to >your pages or other methods of contact available to us. > >Ada Erickson wrote: > > > > Thanks Bill. > > > > The Intro page is live: > > > > www.primadonnasrevenge.com/aquaponics/ > > > > Feel free to send me your own info from there if you don't want to post > > directly to the list. Suggestions always welcome. > > > > If you are curious, the main domain is still under construction. > > > > Here is my tilapia question: > > > > What barriers/obstacles have you encountered when taking your produce or > > tilapias to market? What advice can you offer to help a "newbie" >overcome > > those obstacles > > > >Ada I have yet to grow any fish, but I do have two data points in my >extensive market research so far. I was at a restaurant that served >tilapia and I asked the owner if she would buy any fish from me if I >grew them. She said "No!". She buys all her restaurant supplies from a >single distributor. Oh well. I also have a lady that comes and fishes >in my pond and catches nice big cat fish out of it. I told her about my >idea also and she said I could $8.00 - $9.00 a pound for bream but only >a couple of pounds for tilapia. I'm going to go ahead and try tilapia >first, just based on STEVE SPRING'S recommendations, they seem easy to >grow ;-) > >Bill | Message 4 Subject: RE: Intro/Background and a question From: "Carol" Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 12:25:24 -0400 > -----Original Message----- > From: aquaponics-request 'at' townsqr.com > [mailto:aquaponics-request 'at' townsqr.com]On Behalf Of Devon Williams > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 10:35 AM > To: aquaponics 'at' townsqr.com > Subject: Re: Intro/Background and a question > > > So, that's me! I do have a website (explaining my class, as > well as the > system). You can find it at > http://www.mindspring.com/~mcconnellms/staff/dwilliams When > you get to the > main page click on the "More" button, then click on the > "Projects" button to > see the front page of the aquaponics information. Be sure to > click on the > blinking "Here" near the bottom of that page. I am going to > update the page > today, but it won't take effect until it gets uploaded tonight around > midnight.> WOW!!! I'm absolutely amazed. Your system would fit on my back porch. This really works - with ONE bed? -carol, brand new and thinking about getting wet feet. | Message 5 Subject: Re: Aquaponics Digest - Thu 05/24/01 From: DAVEINBHAM 'at' aol.com Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 13:00:38 EDT Mike, Please keep me and the rest of the group informed about how well Sonic Bloom really works. If it does half what they claim, it would be cheap at twice the price. My experience has almost always been that if something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Thank you for responding to my enquiry. Kindest regards, Dave ****************************************************************** In a message dated 5/24/01 11:08:28 PM Central Standard Time, aquaponics-digest-request 'at' townsqr.com writes: << Subject: Sonic Bloom From: Michael Olson Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 13:53:10 -0700 (PDT) I first heard about SB a couple summers ago. There was an article in the Minneapolis newspaper that intrigued me. I let it drop until. .Adrianna sent the link a few weeks ago about electrical/magnetic fields which induce plant prosperity. In the article, they mentioned plants reaction to sound -- and mentioned Sonic Bloom by name. I decided to look for a website -- and I found it at http://www.sonicbloom.com After refamiliarizing myself with the technology and their claims (which you can do on the website), I purchased the medium system to use in a greenhouse for my daylilies. I have been using it for a couple weeks now -- not long enough to evaluate (the info says it will take 5-7 weeks to see appreciable results. I am hopeful, but I have many hurdles (that may affect the ability to evaluate SB) to overcome to get my plants back to health. I will attempt to report the results when I have given it a chance to effect change. -Mike >> | Message 6 Subject: Re: Floating Beds .again From: "Ada Erickson" Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 18:28:02 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_4797_1f2d_722e Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Jim- Related article in this month's Growing Edge. Ada >From: Jim Joyner >Reply-To: aquaponics 'at' townsqr.com >To: aquaponics 'at' townsqr.com >Subject: Re: Floating Beds .again >Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:09:03 -0500 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Received: from [207.18.224.3] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id >MHotMailBCD6FB8000344004389ECF12E00311E40; Thu May 24 18:08:22 2001 >Received: from hot.heartoftn.net (unverified [207.65.112.11]) by >compaqwww.townsqr.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.4) with SMTP id > for ; Thu, 24 >May 2001 20:00:21 -0500 >Received: from server2 ([207.65.113.58]) by hot.heartoftn.net ; Thu, 24 May >2001 20:07:24 -0500 >From snsaquasys 'at' townsqr.com Thu May 24 18:09:53 2001 >Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20010524200653.00b0c9a0 'at' mail.heartoftn.net> >X-Sender: jimstoy 'at' mail.heartoftn.net >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 >In-Reply-To: <26.15d7ef5f.283ecb04 'at' aol.com> >Sender: aquaponics-request 'at' townsqr.com > ------=_NextPart_000_4797_1f2d_722e Content-Type: message/rfc822 >From snsaquasys 'at' townsqr.com Thu May 24 18:09:53 2001 Received: from [207.18.224.3] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBCD6FB8000344004389ECF12E00311E40; Thu May 24 18:08:22 2001 Received: from hot.heartoftn.net (unverified [207.65.112.11]) by compaqwww.townsqr.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.4) with SMTP id for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 20:00:21 -0500 Received: from server2 ([207.65.113.58]) by hot.heartoftn.net ; Thu, 24 May 2001 20:07:24 -0500 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20010524200653.00b0c9a0 'at' mail.heartoftn.net> X-Sender: jimstoy 'at' mail.heartoftn.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:09:03 -0500 To: aquaponics 'at' townsqr.com From: Jim Joyner Subject: Re: Floating Beds .again In-Reply-To: <26.15d7ef5f.283ecb04 'at' aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Reply-To: aquaponics 'at' townsqr.com Sender: aquaponics-request 'at' townsqr.com At 04:37 PM 5/24/01 -0400, you wrote:
Most of the systems I have installed around the world have been floating ,you
can give me a call at 407 671-5075   Gordon Creaser

Say Gordon, any chance you might commit some your knowledge to this list. Seems a lot more efficient and a lot less expensive than all of us calling you.

Thanks,

Jim
------=_NextPart_000_4797_1f2d_722e-- | Message 7 Subject: Re: Aquaponics Digest - Thu 05/24/01 From: marc 'at' aculink.net Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 13:59:23 -0600 This Sonic Bloom thread comes up now and then. I've never read any mainstream support for this thing. The thing seems to have the usual super growing formula: 1: a zippity doo da claim. 2. VERY expensive fertilizer. 3. A well disciplined growing regimine to follow. Success could not possibly be due to good discipline and fertilizer alone, eh? I'm Marc DAVEINBHAM 'at' aol.com wrote: > > Mike, > Please keep me and the rest of the group informed about how well Sonic Bloom > really works. If it does half what they claim, it would be cheap at twice the > price. > My experience has almost always been that if something sounds too good to be > true, it usually is. . | Message 8 Subject: Re: Intro/Background and a question From: dreadlox 'at' cwjamaica.com Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 15:24:58 -0700 Devon Im interested in a copy of your syllabus if this is possible please.Im thinking of how I can integrate kids visits into the hatchery idea Im working on as a prototype module. Thanks.Mike JAMAICA Devon Williams wrote: Before a lot of questions come at me, please understand that I > am not even scratching the surface of the theoretical framework yet, so I may not be able to answer them .Although I've been told I can "BS" with the > best of them! ;-) | Message 9 Subject: Mike/All From: "Ada Erickson" Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 21:01:08 -0000 Mike; There is a related article (classroom hydroponics/aquaponics) in this month's issue of Grower's Edge. All; www.primadonnasrevenge.com/aquaponics/ is UPDATED and there is also a new page of Useful links as referenced by list members. (I was doing it for myself and decided, why not be helpful and post it? So, I did.) Also, I was thinking last night, sustainable aquaculture could seriously solve world hunger. Is that a nice thought or what? All the best to you and yours; Ada Who was 1 hour late to work today, and had to take a cab, because she couldn't find her car keys. | Message 10 Subject: Re: "Giving Up!" From: Jim Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 20:07:30 -0500 Hi Steve, You're right, no wonder you had trouble with your fish 1600 gallons of tank volume at .5 lb of fish per gallon requires over 200 cubic feet of gravel. You have to keep in mind that the .5 pound/gallon formula for aquaponics has a 3rd part. Look at it in cu.ft (3.75 lb fish) : (1 cu.ft. water) : (1 cu.ft. growbed) Sounds like you only have enough growbed/filter to support about 130 lb of fish (<.1 #/gal in 2-800 gal tanks) assuming you have 8" deep growbeds. You'll need at least 4 times as much growbed to get anywhere close to .5#/gal. using full tanks. Channel cats or hybrid bream(1) would've died off long before the tilapia did in your set-up. Jim (1) I raise hybrid bream and channel cats STEVE SPRING wrote: > > Hi Paula, > > > > I just truly believe that I had too many fish in the system and that they > were breeding themselves within the system. > > But, I do basically use the S&S System. > > Thanks Steve | Message 11 Subject: Re: Aquaponics Digest - Thu 05/24/01 From: "gutierrez-lagatta" Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 20:55:42 -0500 On another board I'm on someone is testing it with no results after a couple of months > Please keep me and the rest of the group informed about how well Sonic Bloom > really works. If it does half what they claim, it would be cheap at twice the > price. | Message 12 Subject: Re: Mike/All From: dreadlox 'at' cwjamaica.com Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 22:43:37 -0700 Twice, my wife has watched me write a lengthy letter to the group, and TWICE this week, the compie has crashed, just as I was going to send. My constant Time Manager, Protector, and Know-whats-best-for-newlywed-wives I can only presume KNEW that my question was going to be redundant. As a veteran of the group, I was finally going to VOLUNTEER getting all those who wanted to post their bookmarks .that I will post them but I think you have started a fantastic thing Ada. I am in the process of merging my bookmarks with the wife's and hence I thought since I am doing this I might as well volunteer to do the links page. You have not been the first newbie asking for sites to look at and I thought it was time to look into doing it as I have a little free time now. Ada, would you have time to log and title large amounts of presorted links? Is there anyone willing to sort and "tag" files? This was my MAJOR issue I have the files ordered in folders but dont have that much time to write "undertitles". Are there any 'ones' of us on Unlimited Net time with (a broken leg, uncommited free and single .no Mike dont post that bit .:) ) some free time to do some sorting?? With a bit of help we could create a fairly good site. If you would just like to keep logging the suggested readings in posts thats fine . but as a veteran to the list I would like to suggest we need more too for the vets as well as the newbies because we all need stuff to read without spending too much of our time getting square eyes I suggest I will post a list of bookmarks after this in a seperate post and then ask us the list to add as much of our wishes to that . we are some "bricaleurs" or "bastlers" at heart . "do-it-yourselfers", as Adrianna would say mothers of all trades plumbers, welders, pump technicians . etc so I imagine the interest will be great. I am asking all list members to add to that list as SWIFTLY AS POSSIBLE as this would be necessary for the backbone of the bookmark page that COULD arise out of this effort. Thanks for your interest, and for the tip . and Ada I dont know if you have been sent the detox pack yet . but you MUST know about this group that it is the most ADDICTIVE, Helpful, and task oriented ONE you will EVER find and we even go off topic sometimes !! SO TO ALL NEWBIES, I second the welcome extended to you from the JAMAICAN CHAPTER of this list (David A. Hi!! ) and BEWARE YOU have been warned !!!! My colleague Ted might just write a post warning you what happens when you stay up too late due to being addicted to this list and thats apart from the square eyes .!! Yes Ada we all have a bit of change the world mentality in us, we do.depending on your beliefs you might see that it is more fruits of mans heart we need man is just SADLY greedy. We can provide for all the folks in the world . but greed is a mad thing. But there is hope CONTENTMENT is also a fantastic thing so tonight I choose to be bitten by a tonne of mosquitos (need to go get some citronella spray really ) and watch people return home walking in wet muddy conditions . We have had (like you Ted and sorry to hear about your tank, Ive seen a SHIP taken out of the water spun around and set on dry land man there is a God!! ) some SERIOUS rains recently but when I consider how many people can run a consulting firm with a fan under their desks blowing cool air on them and sitting half naked on a big swivel chair having a cool drink once in a while and dont need HEATING . then I chooose to be content with where I am. One thing you newbies will see is that we aquaponikers all want to change the world, and like me above break out once in a while with a little rant Sooo back to the late shift after the siesta. Love to you all Mike. Ada Erickson wrote: > > Mike; > > There is a related article (classroom hydroponics/aquaponics) in this > month's issue of Grower's Edge. > > All; > > www.primadonnasrevenge.com/aquaponics/ > > is UPDATED and there is also a new page of Useful links as referenced by > list members. (I was doing it for myself and decided, why not be helpful > and post it? So, I did.) > > Also, I was thinking last night, sustainable aquaculture could seriously > solve world hunger. Is that a nice thought or what? > > All the best to you and yours; > > Ada > Who was 1 hour late to work today, and had to take a cab, because she > couldn't find her car keys. > > > __________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com | Message 13 Subject: Aquaponic Group Bookmark list Version 1 From: dreadlox 'at' cwjamaica.com Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 22:43:52 -0700 As discussed in the previous mail, here is the first compilation of bookmark headings. I will begin the list by suggesting the following headers. Just simply add your bookmark TITLES to the list, (Your bookmarks will be added AT A LATER DATE) and send it back TO ME OFF LIST. Please note that you can add bookmark titles that you yourself might not already have sites to, as others may have sites available. Please do not send the suggestions back to the list, lest others become confused. I will post a complete list at the end of this exercise. Please use the subject heading "BOOK MARK CHANGES". Please attempt to submit the changes by Wednesday May 30, 2001. Thank you all in advance for your help, in addressing this matter. Aerators - Blowers Alternative Animal Feeds Alternative Cooling Alternative Energy Sources Alternative Farming Alternative Grow Beds Alternative Health Alternative Heating Alternative Technology Aquaculture Aquaculture Machinery Aquaponics Aquaria-Ornamental Fish Biodigestion Biofilters Chemical Search Engines Cooking - Recipes Dictionaries Ecotourism Electrical Engineering/Repairs Farming Greenhouse Automation - Autodialers Groups or Associations Herbs Hydroponics Large Equipment Ozone Friendly Packaging - Suppliers/Machines Plastics - Liners/Greenhouse Coverings Pond Stuff Preserving Publications Pumps - Suppliers/Models PVC Issues Rain Water Rockwool Schools - Aquaponic Curriculum and School Visit Info Search Engines Seed Sources - Seed Trays Small Engines Tissue Culture Tubing Water Purification

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