"What strain of lettuce? What are your water temps? That might be a world record... My fasted growing lettuce is 28 days for something like that, on its best day."
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Dan Wulff
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Increasing Ammonia levels
Started this discussion. Last reply by Richard Wyman May 26, 2011. 14 Replies 0 Likes
Recently we have begun noticing rising ammonia and nitrite levels and we cannot get them to go down. We have a fair number of established plants working away at filtering and the bacteria seem to be…Continue
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Dan Wulff commented on Dan Wulff's blog post I've never seen anything like this"The water temps are 80 degrees and the strain of lettuce is Loose Leaf Butter Crunch, and some "mixed" heirloom seed we picked up. I don't know which it is exactly...but it sure tastes good!"
Dan Wulff commented on Dan Wulff's blog post I've never seen anything like this"HI Bob,
We have 15 small to medium tilapia in a standard IBC container. The grow bed on the tank is loaded with hydroton. and that's all we are doing tank wise. The other "grow beds" are in 3 gallon nursery pots filled with compost…"
Bob Vento commented on Dan Wulff's blog post I've never seen anything like this"Ok Dan ... what is your secret? That is some serious growth rate. What was your water source, What type of fish are you growing and what media is in your grow beds? WOW!"
Carey Ma commented on Dan Wulff's blog post I've never seen anything like this"Good going Dan! Welcome to AP family.
Cheers"
Dan Wulff commented on Dan Wulff's blog post I've never seen anything like this"HI Sylvia,
I will be adding the pics today. What would you say to lettuce that went from seed to 8 inches tall in 2.5 weeks? We've also gotten some friends over in Highlands Ranch to start some above ground beds by giving them some of the…"
Dan Wulff commented on Dan Wulff's blog post I've never seen anything like this"Hi Kenneth,
Thanks ever so much for the fish. They are all doing well but we did have one loss about a week after the group was introduced to the system. The others are doing fine and they really like the lettuce scraps we feed down to them. The…"
Kenneth J Roche' commented on Dan Wulff's blog post I've never seen anything like this"Hey Dan good to hear things are working well. How did the fishes you got from me workout?"
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Update Aurora ColoradoMay 10 2012Recently we moved the IBC unit out into the backyard and I built a 12x20 hoop type green house around it and I am stunned and amazed at the growth of the plants. We are doing both raised dirt bed and aquaponic farming. The dirt farming is in plastic 3 gallon nursery pots and the aquaponics is in the IBC unit. We do water change outs so that we can supply the dirt side with the fish water as an additional nutrient.I have lettuce that is growing at least 1 inch…See More
Dan Wulff commented on Sylvia Bernstein's page Buy / Sell Marketplace"OKay, we have the greenhouse up now so the plans are changing...we will be putting tilapia in the system. SO, we need a source of tilapia near Denver. Any Ideas?"
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I've never seen anything like this
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 6:25am 9 Comments 4 Likes
Update Aurora Colorado
May 10 2012
Recently we moved the IBC unit out into the backyard and I built a 12x20 hoop type green house around it and I am stunned and amazed at the growth of the plants. We are doing both raised dirt bed and aquaponic farming. The dirt farming is in plastic 3 gallon nursery pots and the aquaponics is in the IBC unit. We do water change outs so that we can supply the dirt side with the fish water as an additional nutrient.
I have lettuce…
Continue Indulging the Geek in Me
Posted on May 16, 2011 at 5:51am 3 Comments 4 Likes
Hello everyone,
My name is Dan and my wife Jamie and I are new to Aquaponics. We went to a recent local "Self Reliance Expo" looking for ideas on how to do a few things to offset food and power costs. What we found was Aquaponics. While Jamie started picking the brains of the folks at the Aquaponics booth I began looking at the system and how it works. The system was made from an IBC container that had been modified to grow fish and veggies. My thought was, "Now how cool is…
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- At 9:46am on May 14, 2011,
Sylvia Bernstein said… Welcome Dan,
Thanks for joining the Aquaponic Gardening community! I hope you find it a fun place to explore aquaponics. There is a real blend of experienced and new aquapons in this community, so please don’t hesitate to get in there and start asking questions. Everyone is quite happy to help out new members – no question is too basic.
A great place to start is to read the “How to Use This Site” link on the upper right corner, “Start Here” section of the Home page. You might also find the “Aquaponic Gardening Rules of Thumb” guidelines helpful. And please join the Colorado Aquapons group (see Groups tab above) so we can all stay in touch.
Please participate and check in with us every day! We are constantly posting news about aquaponics and the good food movement.
Thanks again for joining us, and I look forward to getting to know you.
Sylvia
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