David, that would be really great. I could not pass up an opportunity like that! As I have told many people, Friendly's training seems the most comprehensive based on their outline (click). However, I have spoken with several people that were "unimpressed" with the training and felt they did not get their money's worth. The trainings from other companies I have seen were definitely not worth the money. There's way more information on the Internet for free, and most folks would be better off joining a forum like this one to get started. On more note though, I am not saying that their system would not necessarily work. If one guy tells you to buy $5000 worth of air pumps and another guy tells you to simply life the rafts up a few inches (practically no cost) and both systems yield the same... well they both work, but in my opinion spending the $5000 is stupid in this case. A lot of these trainers may have in fact created a system that works, that I don't doubt, but they start talking about the "science" behind what and why, and they're literally blowing air out their @$$ because they really don't know, made stuff up (not to deceive anyone they think they're right), or heard something through the grapevine that's just not true. A perfect example are these "rules of thumb" regarding ratios. Most folks get told one thing or another, and the ratio only takes into consideration grow bed area and tank gallons and fails to address the fish mass and feed rate. Dr. Wilson Lennard has a tool that tackles this on his website for backyarders... ANYWAY, I hope you see what meanOriginally Posted by davidstcldfl