Hi folks,
I recently joined the DMS and I am interested in getting involved with aquaponics! I see there is discussion about using LEDs as grow lights and the area in general. I’m happy to see that other people are interested in this as well.
Can some of you provide me some guidance on using the work space, equipment, and what the current vision for aquaponics at DMS is please?
Thanks!
Hello, Seabrain!
I’m happy to have more people wanting to get involved in bio!
As far as guidance goes, I reckon if you want to do something just let us know and we’ll talk about how to make it happen. Bio is very very much a do-acracy, it looks like it does right now due to what active members have made of it.
Currently I’m interested in aquaponics as a means to grow food and herbs. I’m using a specialized kind of crayfish for my bioload right now…might eat 'em when I have enough to do so.
Feel free to private message me if there are particulars you want answered!
Thanks for the reply. I’m new to it all and look forward to learning!
You ask good questions. DMS in general is a directionless workspace, in that DMS provides members a place to work and tools to use and leaves to the members what to do with those resources. Several of us in Bio lab have been working together informally, trying out various things. Several of the members are more advanced and ambitious than I am. Right now, though, we don’t have a formalized, long-term plan that I know of, though we’ve all shared some of our daydreams of what we might do.
I shared in another thread some of my flights of fancy for Bio. Right now, I’m happy just to see what we can get growing in the space. I might be inclined to do more, but it takes me about a half-hour or more to drive to the Space from my home, and that takes a lot out of me in terms of time, energy and gas money. So, I visit the Space now and then, but I interact mostly online.
We don’t have a lot of equipment in Bio; it’s mostly the lights and tanks that you see when you walk in, as far as I know. I don’t know what the status of the vacuum freezer that a member offered to loan to us; it might already be at the Space. That would require training to use; I haven’t seen training for it posted.