Quote Originally Posted by davidstcldfl
Hi Neil, welcome to the forum....

Quote Originally Posted by Neil H
over 100 views, is anyone else going to participate??
Sorry Neil, In the AP forums, we quite often see the 'new guys' come on board, all excited and immediately wanting to go commercial.
There's nothing wrong with that, a good percentage of us here and at other sites have had that 'bug'.
Answering the same questions and talking about the same topic, over and over again...well, it's not that we don't enjoy it, but....

I'll try to post my thoughts soon, right now I should already be getting ready to go to work at the farm.
Hi David,

I hear your comments on the "new guy commercial" side of things and yes i can see how this thread would be viewed in this light... I have been actively reading up about aquaponics for several years now, so i would like to think that post count would not be the only criteria for the new guy definition .... none the less i fully understand where you are comming from.

For the record i have no plans to go commercial at this stage, i dont have the space nor am i in the country i intend settling down in ....

Perhaps i should have explained the above in greater detail at the onset ....


Quote Originally Posted by David - WI
If you have time to read through this, you might get a feel for some of the "problems" that people face going "commercial": http://bayviewcompass.com/archives/11665

Here is a real estate listing for one of the other commercial systems that was in all the local newspapers as a "cutting edge" urban farm: http://www.bizbuysell.com/Business-O...cs-USA/667278/

If they were making money, they wouldn't be trying to sell out just because they didn't have money to expand.
Thank you for the links .... and i guess it really does speak to my thread title ... why is it not pervasive ???

the first link i found fascinating ....

1. for the initial phase they scaled up a small system ..... exactly what i said shouldnt be done...... it did not work
2. the fish were not high value
3. the investor clearly misunderstood or miss interpreted the technology
4. system was not balanced, there was a conflict between the invester and the experts
5. on face value anyway the emphasis seemed to be on fish not on combined fish and veg produce
6. as i said in my initial post, build up of fish solids was a huge problem, the system was not designed to handle this.

It would be great if we shared more experiences and thoughts around commercial operations..... in my mind anyway the think tank that will give rise to the full commercialisation of these systems lies within forums like this one ...............