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Dunno on the composition, but if i might add an "airy-fairy" comment?

Any time you feed a diet of "exclusivly" anything i reckon you're asking for trouble. i'd definatly set up some sort of bug attractant and feed green leaves also. Balance and variety is good.

Thast my 2 cents

LOL

Steve

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Airy-Fairy is unlike you Steve.....

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Following Murray's lead, I through some leaves from my grow-bed into the tank last night - silverbeeet. Perch have eaten most of it. The stalk is still floating.

Was thinking over the portable systems some people have mentioned wanting to make and I wish there were around - they would have been PERFECT for our mariene studs kids... Just picture it, stock 3 or 4 identical systems with different numbers of the same fish, or the same number of a different species of fish... then record water quality and growth rates of plants.. all modular and neatly lined up next to one-another.

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Please correct my logic...

The whole ratio 100lt Water : 200 Ltr of growbed only applies if you have 6 kg of fish per 100 ltr?

If thats the case if your only stocking say 3 kg of fish, then you would have half the efluent.

In this case, you would need only have the grow bed volume required, though have to keep in mind that if you want more fish, you would need to expand your grow bed...

Hows my logic? Im trying to put this to teachers...

Thats correct Mc

The amount of fish you can have in a system relates directly to the amount of growbed are you you have...

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Bear in mind Mc the 1:2 ratio @6kg/100ltr are probably the maximum managable figures....

Halving them still means that you are operating at maximum managable levels....

If you are intending to implement school projects then perhaps a slightly larger margin of error should be designed in, particularly if you are going to be using "smaller" tanks

Thoughts from others???

Mc remember if you halve the growbed volume and have corresponding lower levels of fish stocking, you will still be maxing out, and on the edge. ie big variances in feed levels will test your system to its limits.
ie 3kgs of fish per 100 litres in a system with a 1:1 ratio is peaking. You would be better to halve that to be really safe IMHO

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you know we're eventually going to drop the Mc and just call you ?

Yep they're all right, including you!

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ok, so a 1ooltr water to 100ltr growbed, but instead of having 3 kg of fish, have 2 kg instead...

So a 1000 ltr system would have a growbed 1 mt wide * 3 meters long (in keeping with 1:1 system), then instead of planning for 3o kg (30 eventually), lets stick with 20 kg so 20 barra fingerlings would be needed.

In keeping with that - a 500 ltr system with a 1.5 mtr growbed 1 metre wide with 10 barra fingerlings..

Hows my maths now? would that seem like a safe syste,... spec for the growbeds?

Mc

What the.. I went in to fix the quote in Mc 's previous post and it then landed up as my post...

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aim to grow them to 500 grams and you can have twice as many fish LOL

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Hi Mc (how do you do that)

I had a lot of questions that were similar. Steeve and a few others really helped with some answers in the:

http://backyardaquaponics.com/forum/vie ... php?t=1266

Grow bed media - depth discussions

Thats my first link so I hope it works.

Stuart

Need to hone your MOD skills AM

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Stuart to get the .... type Mc then leave a space the type "colonrrcolon".... thats ":" then "rr" then ":"
... without the quotes ...

i.e Mc