Originally Posted By: Bruce Condello
VERY impressive! I'd pay you to come set up a couple of those for me. Ever considered being a consultant?


Bruce,

Thanks for the kind words but I'm still not there yet as JKB says. I have some bugs to work out. Yes, I have a system that does what I want it to do as in bring fish in for the winter and put a few inches on them, but there is still so much to learn. And the students love it as it's very hands on.

I will be building and trying both a fluidized bed sand filter and low space bioreactor for biofiltraton. Both are cheaper to build than the RBC I have, and have a smaller footprint and more surface area for bacteria. At some point I think I will be using one of those in combination with a rotating drum filter for mechanical filtration when I get my pole building built. When I have the system that really works for me I doubt it will even look like the ones I have now.

But as JKB says there is nothing like the experience of getting your feet wet by raising fish. You can read all the books and publications, and draw up all the blueprints you want but it's amazing what you'll miss if you don't have the responsibility of live fish.

If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.