Shrimp, or crawfish?

[zelmo1234]

What do you suppose drives your need to try force your views on others? Why do you always make declaratory statements about who and what people are, and never ask a question about what they mean?

When did you stop learning?

If you go back you will see that I often ask questions.

There are things that I have witnessed frist hand and you will not change my mind on, and I am not going to change yours. This is a political forum and my political beliefs are very clear Government is not the Solution it is in fact that problem.

When I see people that think some of the assistance programs are being kind it makes be want to vomit. There are people that are trapped in the system and are scared to try and get out of it, and it is criminal .

In the USA today we have kids that are in schools that are so bad, they can barley read when graduating and that traps them into poverty. And I hate it, with a passion and the policies of the left are only going to bring more of the same

[jigglepete]

Are you raising them for fertilizer, food for you, food for an aquaponics set up?

[carolina73]

Just don't mix the shrimp and crawdads in the tanks or you will be left with fat crawdads and lots of shrimp shells for your compost pile.

I would think that larger prawns would be more unique for selling in local markets. And you can do more with them for meals.

[jes'fuchinwitcha]

Are you raising them for fertilizer, food for you, food for an aquaponics set up?

It’s an experiment, or demonstration, of integrating several sustainable systems together as part of developing a circular local economy. The aquaculture operation is in the center of a greenhouse with three parallel beds. The center bed is like a bunkbed with the lower part being a lined wooden tank and a second lined “bed” on posts above the tank. The shrimp and/or crawdads will be raised in the tank and the water pumped up into the upper bed (slightly sloped from one end to the other). Plants in pots with holes in the bottoms will sit in the flowing water, taking nutrients out that the animals put in. The water then drains back into the tank through a biochar filter, which completes the cleaning.

The other raised beds will be filled with rich soil. For cold weather there will be a biochar making boiler heating the water in a 275 gallon tote to use for keeping the aquaculture and soil beds warm. The biochar will be used when the filter media gets changed and the “polluted” char will be added to the compost operation (food waste mixed with shredded biomass) along with the leftover shrimp/crawdad parts. When the compost is finished it will be added back into the soil.

All of the power can be supplied with a small PV system and a couple of deep cycle batteries. I hope to streamline it all into a neat package that others can adopt. At first the shrimp will be for personal consumption and if it works well we’ll expand to be able to supply the community.

[jes'fuchinwitcha]

If you go back you will see that I often ask questions.

You haven't asked me any questions about my approach to business, but you have made a good many wrong assumptions and harsh judgments. Why do you think you know so much about what I do without ever asking any questions?

[Peter1469]

It’s an experiment, or demonstration, of integrating several sustainable systems together as part of developing a circular local economy. The aquaculture operation is in the center of a greenhouse with three parallel beds. The center bed is like a bunkbed with the lower part being a lined wooden tank and a second lined “bed” on posts above the tank. The shrimp and/or crawdads will be raised in the tank and the water pumped up into the upper bed (slightly sloped from one end to the other). Plants in pots with holes in the bottoms will sit in the flowing water, taking nutrients out that the animals put in. The water then drains back into the tank through a biochar filter, which completes the cleaning.

The other raised beds will be filled with rich soil. For cold weather there will be a biochar making boiler heating the water in a 275 gallon tote to use for keeping the aquaculture and soil beds warm. The biochar will be used when the filter media gets changed and the “polluted” char will be added to the compost operation (food waste mixed with shredded biomass) along with the leftover shrimp/crawdad parts. When the compost is finished it will be added back into the soil.

All of the power can be supplied with a small PV system and a couple of deep cycle batteries. I hope to streamline it all into a neat package that others can adopt. At first the shrimp will be for personal consumption and if it works well we’ll expand to be able to supply the community.

Saltwater or fresh water?