Feed The Fish

I thought this would be a good exercise for some of you newer Aquaponics folks. Remember that if you feed to the fish too much you will throw your system out of balance. Excessive feeding will cause excess waste, and that waste will not be properly cleaned by your plants, the results could be higher ammonia levels (potentially deadly), and even algae growth (thanks for that bit of wisdom Jason). Have a great day

Ideal water temperature for catfish and Bluegill

As I posted earlier I installed a heater for the fish in order to keep growth up during the colder winter months. Here is a quick little list of what is optimal for the fish, and should help keep plant growth continuing as well, who knows maybe fresh Tomatoes in January.

Catfish

60-72 degrees, any colder than 40 degrees and they have no interest in feeding

Blue gill

65-72 degrees, any colder than 50 degrees and they lose their appetite as well.

So I will keep the water temperature between 65 degrees and 70 degrees. In order to facilitate maximum plant growth I will plant warm weather plants that will absolutely love the warm water. My only concern is that in these temps algae growth in almost inevitable, so I think I will put some fresh water sucker fish into the system.

My fish are happy

The fish love the fact that I installed a heater for them. I checked the water temp this morning at it was a very nice 70 degrees. I will be posting more information about the ideal water temps for various fish here in the future. If you have any questions about fish temps let me know.

We are official!!!

Sage Aquaponics Has just received it’s LLC. one step closer to providing healthy and locally grown produce and fish to our community and friends.

Sky rocketing food prices

Over the last few years food prices around the world have skyrocketed, all the more reason to learn to be more self sufficient. Aquaponics is one of the answers to these higher prices and possible food shortages.

Heater

I just installed a heater in my fish tank to warm up the water for my fish. I hope they like it. Unfortunately I also found one dead Bluegill this morning. That means of my initial 15 bluegill I lost one and of my initial 10 catfish I lost 2. Not to bad. I have ben checking the Ph and Ammonia levels regularly and is all is well.

The start of my indoor aquaponics system

Today I ran all kinds of errands to get the finishing touches for my indoor,garage, aquaponics system. I bought two aerator’s, one for each system, a few bags of Hydroton, and some air stones. The last thing I need is some 2 1/2″ pvc to finish my bell siphons. My fish and plants in the outdoor unit are doing great, as are my seedlings. I do need some insight into grow lights so if anyone is knowledgeable in them please let me know.

Hello world!

Hello happy aquaponics people,

This is the first day that Sage Aquaponics is out to help you with the in’s and out’s of living a self sufficient lifestyle. We hope that we can adequately answer any and all questions you may have in regards to aquaponics. We will try to review as much information as possible here. You can also visit us at our main page sageaquaponics.com or at our forum where many people can add their own ideas and creativity to your system.