Re: The benefits of Duckweed/ or lack of benefits???.
I have read through this thread, and maybe this sounds dumb, but what is wrong with setting up a $3 plastic kid pond that I can buy at walmart and adding some water and duckweed, in a space of 3x3? Every 2 days, I scoop out some duckweed and supplement the diet of the fish. If I bought commercial feed, even $1 or $2 worth, I have to actually come up with $2. This way, I just scoop it up, plop it in, and come back in 2 days for some more. I don't mean it as a miracle food, but simply to lower my over all cost of feeding my growing fish. How does this not make sense to do?
Re: The benefits of Duckweed/ or lack of benefits???.
Originally Posted by nadav
I have read through this thread, and maybe this sounds dumb, but what is wrong with setting up a $3 plastic kid pond that I can buy at walmart and adding some water and duckweed, in a space of 3x3? Every 2 days, I scoop out some duckweed and supplement the diet of the fish. If I bought commercial feed, even $1 or $2 worth, I have to actually come up with $2. This way, I just scoop it up, plop it in, and come back in 2 days for some more. I don't mean it as a miracle food, but simply to lower my over all cost of feeding my growing fish. How does this not make sense to do?
Re: The benefits of Duckweed/ or lack of benefits???.
Originally Posted by nadav
I have read through this thread, and maybe this sounds dumb, but what is wrong with setting up a $3 plastic kid pond that I can buy at walmart and adding some water and duckweed, in a space of 3x3? Every 2 days, I scoop out some duckweed and supplement the diet of the fish. If I bought commercial feed, even $1 or $2 worth, I have to actually come up with $2. This way, I just scoop it up, plop it in, and come back in 2 days for some more. I don't mean it as a miracle food, but simply to lower my over all cost of feeding my growing fish. How does this not make sense to do?
Exactly what I do with duckweed. But I have about 50 square feet of surface area I grow it on.
Re: The benefits of Duckweed/ or lack of benefits???.
My Rain Barrels will collect 1,280 gals with just over 1/2 inch of rain, 7 of my close neighbors have pools, plus I have an 8' X 12' spar. Keeping my 8' X 8' spar cover over the FT and keeping the water level 2" below the surface of the media in the GB's will slow my evaporation rate.
I'm looking for a good quality pump, about 1,200 - 2,000 gals per hr., head pressure around 9 - 10 ft. with as little draw on electricity as possible.
My main concern is power...I'm wanting to get a solar/battery set up, just to run the AP