Aquaponics Digest - Tue 02/24/98
Message 1: Tilapia
from "Devon Williams"
Message 2: Fwd. New web
from S & S Aqua Farm
Message 3: RE: Small System, was First greens
from "Charland, Stacy"
Message 4: Brick chips for media (was small system)
from S & S Aqua Farm
Message 5: Re: Brick chips for media (was small system)
from ryarnell@orednet.org (Richard Yarnell)
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Subject: Tilapia
From: "Devon Williams"
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 06:59:30 -0500
Hi All,
I am new to this aquaponics stuff, and I am currently pricing out a system
for my middle school technology education classroom. I've gotten great
response from this group on ideas for the hardware end of the system, so I
thought I would ask about the "software" end.
I am looking for a Tilapia supplier in the Southeast US. Any ideas?
Also, any info on what is considered a "good price" for them? AND, what
type of food do they eat?
Thanks for your help.
Devon Williams
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Subject: Fwd. New web
From: S & S Aqua Farm
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 10:23:02 -0600
To the group - our "shy" friends from Sweden have surfaced. Wanted to share
their letter with you and invite you all to view their pages. Haven't made
it through all of them as yet, but we're very impressed with the work
they've done this past year. (Now is surely the time to pose those trout
questions.)
Paula
>Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 10:59:32 +0100
>From: Stefan Goes
>To: snsaquasys@townsqr.com
>Subject: New web
>
>Hello Tom and Paula!
>
>Pekka and me are buzy building a greenhouse here in Harnosand, Sweden.
>We are a bit shy but we read and save all info we find interesting from
>the discussiongroup in a lokal database on my computer. Latly we have
>build a generator in Delphi, which produces everything in the database
>as homepages on internet. We have dedicatet these homepages to You.
>Thanks for everything. We have also stolen some sentenses and a picture
>from your site. We hope it is all right. You can see it on adress
>http://www.itv.se/rainbow .
>
>We hope to publish more of our own results later and perhaps we will
>participate in the discussiongroup later as well. If You find our site
>allright, You can perhaps mention it to the discussiongroup. Otherwise
>tell us if we have offended You or anybody else.
>
>Bye for now
>
>Stefan and Pekka
>in snowy Sweden
>
>
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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Subject: RE: Small System, was First greens
From: "Charland, Stacy"
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:10:38 -0500
Brick chips (maybe brick crumbles are a better name) are heavy, but not sharp.
The size is about the same as pea gravel, and they have lots of nooks and
crannies that ought to be good for bacteria. I think lava rock chips would be
the ideal (although THEY might be sharp), since they are light weight and should
be a perfect media for bacterial growth, but I haven't found a local source.
Stacy H. Charland
Stacy_Charland@nih.gov
">>>>>The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up."
-Unknown
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From: S & S Aqua Farm [SMTP:snsaquasys@townsqr.com]
Sent: Monday, February 23, 1998 1:45 PM
To: aquaponics@townsqr.com
Subject: Small System, was First greens
At 12:39 PM 2/23/98 -0500, Stacy Charland wrote:
My only question about your system - do you find the "brick chips" to be
hard media to work with. I don't know if this is actually pieces of
brick
or something I haven't heard of. Working in the pea gravel that we use
is
not difficult, but I'm trying to envision poking, planting and
cultivating
into a bed of sharp edges.
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Subject: Brick chips for media (was small system)
From: S & S Aqua Farm
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 19:28:23 -0600
At 12:10 PM 2/24/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Brick chips (maybe brick crumbles are a better name) are heavy, but not sharp.
>The size is about the same as pea gravel, and they have lots of nooks and
>crannies that ought to be good for bacteria. I think lava rock chips
would be
>the ideal (although THEY might be sharp), since they are light weight and
should
>be a perfect media for bacterial growth, but I haven't found a local source.
>
>Stacy H. Charland
>Stacy_Charland@nih.gov
Stacy - sounds like good, available media. Any chance to send a small
sample through the mail to us to look at? Or could you tell me where you
obtained them.
Lava samples (very large) were sent to us some time ago. Very sharp indeed.
I wonder if it were "crumbled" what the results would be. Can you crumble lava?
Paula
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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Subject: Re: Brick chips for media (was small system)
From: ryarnell@orednet.org (Richard Yarnell)
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 21:01:13 -0800
>Lava samples (very large) were sent to us some time ago. Very sharp
>indeed. I wonder if it were "crumbled" what the results would be. Can
>you crumble lava?
>Paula
Still sharp!
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