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    Re: Commercial Aquaponics – Why is it not pervasive?

    Quote Originally Posted by Neil H
    I live in South Africa at the moment
    What are your ideas for aquaponics?

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    Re: Commercial Aquaponics – Why is it not pervasive?

    Quote Originally Posted by urbanfarmer
    Quote Originally Posted by Neil H
    I live in South Africa at the moment
    What are your ideas for aquaponics?
    was waiting for that Q

    your points on a system designed for the local environment and capital available are valid

    but what if we as a community designed what we think is a good commercial AP system ....... there is vast experience in this forum ... could be fun .... disclaimers would be very NB though

    its a funny thing AP we think it is this new technology and a wonder method for farming and dont really want to talk about commercial plans and operations because we think it is this trump card .... so we work in isolation .... but at the end of the day the more commercial AP projects there are the better our understanding the more this will be main stream .....

    discussing plans are the first port of call .....

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    Re: Commercial Aquaponics – Why is it not pervasive?

    Okay! Where do you want to start?

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    Re: Commercial Aquaponics – Why is it not pervasive?

    Now Things are Getting even more interesting
    http://www.diyaquaponics.com/forum/s...nder vipar LED
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    Re: Commercial Aquaponics – Why is it not pervasive?

    Quote Originally Posted by urbanfarmer
    Okay! Where do you want to start?

    Assumptions

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    Where are we... i.e. climate .... i only know moderate sub tropics climate well.... but we could do two systems.... one for a moderate env and one for a cold climate??


    over 100 views, is anyone else going to participate??

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    Re: Commercial Aquaponics – Why is it not pervasive?

    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.
    "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." - President Ronald Reagan

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    Re: Commercial Aquaponics – Why is it not pervasive?

    Aquaponics, she is a harsh mistress indeed.

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    Re: Commercial Aquaponics – Why is it not pervasive?

    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.
    It's all about the fish, dude.

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    Re: Commercial Aquaponics – Why is it not pervasive?

    I am definitely not a fan of publicly funded bailouts. I hope they come out of all this with a better understanding of how to make it work. That would benefit all of us. I don't like seeing fish and Benjamins wasted.
    Less irritating avatar since 02/27/14.

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    Re: Commercial Aquaponics – Why is it not pervasive?

    Quote Originally Posted by urbanfarmer
    Aquaponics, she is a harsh mistress indeed.
    She sure can be...just getting home from my mistress.
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