badflash,

This is a non-ordinary format that has been set up to accommodate this tutorial. This particular post is perhaps the smallest in the series. This is a highly edited down version from the original text. I do not see any way to present it with less verbiage and still hold the intent, which is to provide newbies with enough information to build their own system.

I appreciate your input. I understand that you probably already know all of this and I can see how it would be a lot of unnecessary verbiage for you. But from a beginners point of view, which is the target audience, I needed to include enough detail so they can use it as their Aquaponics primer, which is why it is called "Aquaponics 101".

Oliver