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Post by krull68 on Oct 23, 2014 11:48:45 GMT 10
ibcofaquaponics.com/Takes a bit of funds to get started, but the up sides of this is, reduced land for growing, higher yield per sq foot, and you produce two food stocks at the same time, meat and plants. Many would ask, where do you get the ibc tanks from, well, lots of farmers are now getting their liquids in these, they are the new rage. so therefore, they will have plenty spare, you just have to make sure no poisons were used, and clean the tanks out with industrial cleaners. I have a friend who is a farmer and he has told me he can get me as many as I want because, it costs them money to send the tanks back for reuse.
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Post by scoutmum on Feb 6, 2015 4:59:09 GMT 10
Just wondering, krull, if you've come across anything in your research about using sand in aquaponics? I read something about needing to use sand as the media if you were wanting to grow any root-based veggies (potatoes, carrots, etc) but I can't seem to find much on the ibcofaquaponics.com about setting up a sand-based one... Anyhow, really hoping to finish setting up the system this coming weekend!
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Post by krull68 on Sept 14, 2015 8:48:57 GMT 10
I have been looking into this and what I have discovered, through blogs and places like you tube is: 1/ you can use course washed river sand, the big grained stuff. 2/ your outlet pipe has to have a good solids filter wrapped around it.
Hope this helps.
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