This forum may be a waste of my time.

I guess part of what I left out is that I run a small hobby nursery that I'd like to expand and quit my day job. Its been taking off while my regular work is going south. Both ironically are due to the economy. People simply are growing more of their own food and aquaponics is a part of that. I don ...

I saw also that the blues had slightly better cold tolerance. I grew up in Oregon and not to date myself but am old enough to remember when the place actually got cold in the winter. -14 one bad winter. Our Koi ponds would ice over and it didn't bother the fish one bit. And pretty much all the ponds ...

I'm looking to build some large outdoor ponds this year. I live in Anchorage, Alaska and due to the long daylight in the summer the temps usually range at minimum in the high fifties (F) to upwards of 80 during hot periods. I'm narrowing my search down to the Blue Catfish as they seem fairly hardy ...

The blue catfish look promising. A lower end temp of 55 farenheit is doable outdoors here without even supplemental heat. Anyone have experience with them?

Forgot to mention I'd really like to get breeding age cats as aquaponics is really taking off here and there will be continuous demand for fry. Just throwing that out there as I don't know if its practical to ship large adult fish. Although my Tilapia arrived just fine with regular mail.

Hey all just a quick introduction. I'm looking to get into aquaponics and already have some Tilapia for indoor and greenhouse use. I'd like to expand into catfish. Been doing some research and was amazed at the variety available. Probably just going to go with channel cats unless someone can ...