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by lemmox
1802 days ago
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I set-up an aquaponic system on my front porch a few years ago. My wife was skeptical but I grew some of the finest basil around. Just used a tote filled with goldfish, some PVC piping, and a pump. Unfortunately one evening the raccoons figured out how to pop the lid off the tote - it was a massacre! |
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* a good number jumped out as the water level was close to the top of the tank when the water was cycled. Of these, some were found me and others by something else. * birds found and ate them. I was completely okay with this. I never actually confirmed this but it seemed the only plausible reason * illness. The goldfish I bought were feeder fish meant for turtles and were never meant to survive long. Disease was a big component. I would replenish often, but on two occasions within a week or two, all would be dead, old and new. * temperature. We had a deeper freeze than typical for my area in the 20s F. It froze in the pipes and much of the tank. And in the summer we had over 100F
I would have cared more were they fish for consumption. When you can buy goldfish for 10 cents a piece it was too easy to simply replenish than to fix the problems. A more humane, and likely cheaper solution would have been to put a small amount of ammonium chloride in the water regularly. I had a giant bag from setting up the system.
I got a ton of lettuce and tomatoes from the system though and learned a ton.