From smith.11460 at osu.edu Thu Jul 7 09:26:51 2022 From: smith.11460 at osu.edu (Smith, Matthew A.) Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2022 13:26:51 +0000 Subject: [Sc-aquaponics] fish fact sheet | open office hours not happening today (7/7) Message-ID: All, I hope everyone is faring well after going from draught to flooding so quickly. As a reminder, these cloudy days are lowering the oxygen concentration in our aquaculture ponds as there is less sunlight for the phytoplankton. Feeding is also ramping up, which will increase the biological oxygen demand on these systems. Check DO, at minimum, just before sunrise. If possible, check in the evening and then again in the morning to get a picture of how much oxygen is being used up overnight. For this week's fish fact sheet, I am sharing one called Buildings for Aquaculture Operations by Bob Rode and Albert Heber, both of Purdue. Questions on the fact sheet? Either reach out to the author's or contact me. I will be at an Urban Gardeners' meeting today in Columbus so there will not be open office hours today. Come on by if you want to see the aquaponic system and other cool things going on at the Urban Gardeners' meeting. I will be there from about 2:30-5. I will be demonstrating to FACCES and gardeners how to weigh their fish to determine how much to feed their tilapia. The aquaponic system has 60 tilapia, and it is a vertical system. Central State University Extension will also be present to talk about plants in the AP system, plants in the hydroponic system, and plants in the raised beds - all within their greenhouse. If you want to come, the address for FACCES Starting Point Family Center is: 2515 Lockbourne Rd, Columbus, OH 43207. Regards, ?Matt [The Ohio State University] Matthew A. Smith Program Director, Aquaculture Extension Madison County Extension Office College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences 217 Elm Street, London, Ohio 43140 740.852.0975 ext 17 Office smith.11460 at osu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: NCRACFS128.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 1682942 bytes Desc: NCRACFS128.pdf URL: