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Forum: General System Discussions Topic: Algae turf scrubber full sustainability. |
| Ronmaggi |
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Posted: May 26th, '13, 04:51
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| ... goes a very long way. We all have the same goal here, we all want good food grown in a way we are happy with. Your ideas may have merit, and they could be adopted by the community. But no one here likes to have people push an idea. It is better to get people to pull it in for themselves, and that ... |
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Forum: General System Discussions Topic: Algae turf scrubber full sustainability. |
| Jarocal |
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Posted: May 26th, '13, 01:32
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| ... closed loop systems as they derive nutrient and mineral inputs from rainwater, runoff, and or nutrients from a spring feeding them. You could view it as a low cost input into the system requiring minimal infrastructure and labor but you still have not achieved a true "fully sustainable". ... |
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Forum: Members Systems Topic: Chatterson Farms is born! |
| TCLynx |
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Posted: May 26th, '13, 00:30
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| ... I might be interested in working out some sort of arrangement with you with the kitchen if you are game once it is built (renting out the facility could be an additional revenue stream when you are not actually utilizing it yourself.) There seems to be so many things that I could sell but only ... |
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Forum: Fish Topic: What is this? |
| mattltm |
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Posted: May 26th, '13, 00:04
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| ... of reeds and irises from a large natural pond that they were cleaning out so they may have come with them? Any idea what type of fish it is? It could have come from a large natural pond/lake in the south of the UK. |
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Forum: Members Systems Topic: Remodeled Kitchen System |
| Bob H |
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Posted: May 25th, '13, 23:36
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| ... to what TC did with cattle panels and a liner. The maximum diameter should only be 9 feet. I'd like to use a SLO. With that thought maybe I could slope the floor into a cone to help gather solids. But how much of a cone would be needed? What diameter should the SLO be. I know it will depend ... |
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Forum: General System Discussions Topic: Algae turf scrubber full sustainability. |
| Jarocal |
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Posted: May 25th, '13, 23:24
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| ... published using any one of the algae types listed gets rid of that being their intellectual property. The process side of it may stand but that could even be on shakey ground for a challenge in certain aspects of it. This many years into it that really is a moot point. They obviously haven't ... |
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Forum: General System Discussions Topic: How to keep ph stable |
| RupertofOZ |
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Posted: May 25th, '13, 21:31
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| have also been upping my feeding quite a bit so that could have effected it. With lots of NH4, nitrification can lower pH pretty fast as long as your system is mature enough. At least this was my conclusion from what I've observed. Yes... upping your ... |
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Forum: General System Discussions Topic: Algae turf scrubber full sustainability. |
| Keithqueef |
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Posted: May 25th, '13, 21:18
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| ... To the posts about rainwater id rather get nutrients out of the land where i live the land is untouched and would trust that over rain water but could be filtered by the algae scraped and discarded of until u felt it was safe for consumption |
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Forum: General System Discussions Topic: How to keep ph stable |
| Zeknix |
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Posted: May 25th, '13, 17:41
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| ... system is outside is the rain bringing the ph down? brian I've had to daily up my pH a couple of weeks ago (I use KOH and CaOH2. No carbonates). I couldn't figure out why until I just decided to empty my swirl filter and add new egg shells in the GB inputs (original egg shells - 5 or 6 total added ... |
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Forum: General Banter Topic: Cool non AP stuff |
| gazza |
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Posted: May 25th, '13, 15:22
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| Why would you build a house on a cliff, and not have an almighty big window so you could take advantage of the view? |
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Forum: General Banter Topic: Cool non AP stuff |
| gazza |
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Posted: May 25th, '13, 15:21
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| Why would you build a house on a cliff, and not have an almighty big window so you could take advantage of the view? |
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Forum: Aquaponics F.A.Q. Topic: Pumping cycle |
| tradewind |
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Posted: May 25th, '13, 12:25
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| I realize this thread is about 2 years old but perhaps someone will pick up on the post. I was wondering if one could just slow the flow down to lengthen the time the beds fill rather than cutting the pumps off and on? Using a bell siphon and slowing the flow seems to me that would ... |
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Forum: General System Discussions Topic: Algae turf scrubber full sustainability. |
| esckay |
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Posted: May 25th, '13, 10:59
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| ... the fish so will probably put mechanical filtration in place to be sure the collected rain water is safe to top up my ap system however if I could use algae instead and it was able to clean the water enough and still be safe itself to feed the fish, I would have a clean source of water waiting ... |
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Forum: Members Systems Topic: My First Aquaponic System (balcony style) |
| gazza |
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Posted: May 25th, '13, 07:52
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Nice little system - looks great! 
The fish probably don't need much light strictly speaking, perhaps the LEDs could be better used above the growbed for the plants? |
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Forum: Plants Topic: Tomato Time to Bloom |
| gn83tm |
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Posted: May 25th, '13, 02:13
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Replies: 6
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| Could be a few different things; plants not old enough, temp not warm enough, not enough light, etc |
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