I'm tinkering with the idea of creating a hydroponics garden and am looking at using coir for my media. Does anybody know of a local source?
I can't see where "local" is because I'm on my phone. Have you tried Organics OKC over on Penn? They have hydroponic stuff.
I'll check them out. Thanks.
I did aquaponics for awhile and and used river rock rather than the fancy stuff. . .cheaper and easier to get ahold of.
Why do you not do it anymore?
I had it outside during the summer. . .and didn't get it moved back into the sunroom before that first freeze we had. I was out of town that weekend, and when I came back every talipia I had was floating belly up.
It was just an experiment anyway, but it worked pretty doggone well. Lettuce grew like CRAZY, herbs did quite well. Peppers/tomatoes grew very well, but never produced much fruit.
I'll run it again in the not too distant future. . .now that I kinda know what I'm doing it will work much better.
It was just an experiment anyway, but it worked pretty doggone well. Lettuce grew like CRAZY, herbs did quite well. Peppers/tomatoes grew very well, but never produced much fruit.
I'll run it again in the not too distant future. . .now that I kinda know what I'm doing it will work much better.
Ohhhh ... where did you get your tilapia?? I swear I'm just gonna set up a couple of 100 gallon tanks in the living room ... LOL GC is mortified ... But, we had fish tanks when I was a kid. 100 gallons not that big in the grand scheme of things ...
I got 'em from Harbin Fish Farms in Wetumka. Quite reasonably priced.
I had 2 330 gallon totes set up in the sunroom all last winter. . .cut the top 1/3 off, flip it over, fill it with gravel, and use it as the grow beds, with water in the lower 2/3. There wasn't much (if any) smell, which I was very careful about. My wife is wonderful, but I still don't want to take advantage of her "wonderful-ness" by having stinking fish stuff in the house!
After about 6 months, I added a half-pound of worms to the growbeds, which help break down the fish waste even more. It's an ingenious system, really. . .quite efficient, which I like. I tried adding mudbugs to the aquarium part, but didn't have enough cover for 'em. . .and the fish gobbled 'em up.
I had 2 330 gallon totes set up in the sunroom all last winter. . .cut the top 1/3 off, flip it over, fill it with gravel, and use it as the grow beds, with water in the lower 2/3. There wasn't much (if any) smell, which I was very careful about. My wife is wonderful, but I still don't want to take advantage of her "wonderful-ness" by having stinking fish stuff in the house!
After about 6 months, I added a half-pound of worms to the growbeds, which help break down the fish waste even more. It's an ingenious system, really. . .quite efficient, which I like. I tried adding mudbugs to the aquarium part, but didn't have enough cover for 'em. . .and the fish gobbled 'em up.
Hmmmm ... Man I am so tempted. I'm specifically looking at greenhouses just to give tilapia (and worms) a try ... the plants will just be a nice by-product. There are so many things I wanna try ... Man, I wish I lived on an acreage. I'd have a little bitty house and a GREAT BIG BARN! LOL
