Aquaponics Digest - Tue 08/17/99

Message   1: Please take me off the list

             from "Matthew Hanlon" 

Message   2: small family set up

             from Debra Russell 

Message   3: RE: small family set up

             from "Ronald W. Brooks" 

.------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------.

| Message 2                                                           |

'------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------'

Subject: small family set up

From:    Debra Russell 

Date:    17 Aug 99 17:28:35 PDT

If one is interested in starting a family aquaponic system.  Using inexpe=

nsive

materials how low of an investment do you think one can get away with?

.------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------.

| Message 3                                                           |

'------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------'

Subject: RE: small family set up

From:    "Ronald W. Brooks" 

Date:    Tue, 17 Aug 1999 21:39:53 -0400

Well you could do a small system using one of those Wal-Mart type swimming

pools and scrounged lumber and such. All told you could start up for around

$150 - $250 depending on how well you can scrounge. In the spring a lot of

people throw away the frames and pumps and such to those pools and all you

need to add is a new liner. I dumpster dove 3 such pools this May. Cost of

new liner $45 each. Check farm auctions for stock tanks , these usually hold

150 - 180 gallons , very good for young fingerling tanks. Check curbside for

old aquariums that hold water , these a very good for fry tanks.

So you can start very cheaply depending on how well you dumpster dive and

scrounge.

Ron

The One Who Walks Two Paths

S&S Aqua Farm, 8386 County Road 8820, West Plains, MO 65775  417-256-5124

Web page  http://www.townsqr.com/snsaqua/