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Originally Posted 14th-March-2009

In Utah you can keep ornamental fish without a license. If you intend to eat, breed, or sell fish, then you must have a license and EACH species must be approved. Searching the Internet I found the regulations at: http://wildlife.utah.gov/guidebooks/...al_animals.pdf.

As it turns out, Tilapia is prohibited and only 1 person that I can find has ever been granted a variance. Red Claw Crayfish are “controlled”, meaning ...

Originally Posted 4th-March-2009

Well things progress, the water temps are 72 degrees (22C) in the fish tank and the DWC tank runs 64-68 degrees (18-20C). I’ve added 2 small handfuls of Urea over 4 days and a small handful of powdered seaweed to put some nutrition in the system. On Monday I also added 6 small Koi (6 inches). Two of the stupid things jumped out of the tank last night! That was a waste! Now I have a foam cover over it.

Water tests, since I filled ...

Originally Posted 28th-February-2009

Today’s project was building the raft tank. I used a 4’ x 8’ (1200mm x 2400mm) sheet of ½ inch (12mm) plywood and 2” x 12” (50mm x 300mm) pressure treated lumber. I built the box using 3”(75mm) long wood screws. I put the plywood on top, and screwed it down around the edges with 2 ½” inch (62mm) . I turned the whole thing over, added some corner braces to give extra support. Then using 2” x 4” (50mm x 100mm) lumber I framed an extension to the box, ...

When I started planting I had insufficient lighting, at least my lighting was too far from the plants. Everything that came up was reaching for the light and became long and lanky. I lowered the lights to within about 2" of the plants and moved the second light from the unfinished growbed over the plants. Things began growing well after that, but the lankiness really affected the radishes. They were supposed to be about three inch cylinderical and they ended up about 6" with only the bottom ...

Originally Posted 26th-February-2009

Yet another day gone and AT LAST there is water. Nothing every goes as easy as it looks.

This day’s work started a month ago with diagrams and elevations and planning. I redid the plan at least 3 times. First a Two Pump system with dump tanks, then a two pump system on timers and floats, then a single pump system with bell siphons and pump in the sump.


At first I considered Trout and would have needed a chiller ...