Time To Get The Winter Indoor Aquaponics System Started Back Up

Last year I put this aquaponics system together as an experiment and it went beyond my expectations with how well it worked and how productive it was. I didn't see a need to keep it operating through the warmer months but I'm starting it back up for those fresh winter greens and herbs, plus I'm just fascinated with it.

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I would be curious to see systems others have put together indoors and how successful they were.

Harold,
ok, I will likely be following you - don't be nervous!
I am so taken with = well, hooked on 'ponics!
I have a dream of a greenhouse dedicated to aquaponics. I did what I call a redneck hydroponics test `on my back porch, with bubblers and buckets - wow - took off like crazy. took an 18 gallon tub/tote and did the lettuce raft thing- even the chickens were getting lettuce and spinach - decided - that first year - to try a tomato (determinate) and a lemon cucumber.
we named the cucumber audrey - she took over the 10x12 porch, and then was escaping out between the rafters. we got a few nice cucumbers, and over 100 roma tomatoes. the tomato had a non-swimming twin from the same hatch out in the terrestrial garden- it stayed determinate - so we are not sure the swimmer was exactly the same stock. we only got around 30 tomatoes from that one.
strawberries are fun - I put a heater in the water at the end of September and they were still going strong over thanksgiving - I am shutting it all d down for now- but still trying to figure out what to do with one strawberry plant that won't go dormant.
it ran for two years and was crazy fun and awesome. I got hurt and gimped up, and have some serious work to do (moving a steel building) as well as building a real greenhouse for the swimmers. my goal is an ebb and flow setup with a fish tank (likely trout) and a tank for crawdads - and with the fishing birds here it will need cover. Osprey and cranes daytime - LOTS of raccoons at night. but fresh food rocks. well worth the "trouble"
I have a huge old hot tub I think might be the crawdad tank- and I can dig in to make it my lowest tank in the siphon run -
keep posting on what you do and how it works!I will try and share as well.
R

Hi,
Thanks for a great post.
Could you please provide some numbers, like "that many square feet (or whatever) of plants for that many pounds of fish"?