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Saw this. Seems like a good idea, although I see a bit of a struggle getting the wood out of the lower parts of the cage. These IBC totes are actually a great idea for many things, especially if you can get them for free… would like to know how to do this.
As long as they did not contain hazardous chemicals, they could be used for rainwater collection (this is going to be extremely huge when the grid goes down) or for raising fish. You can rear 200-300 tilapia to nearly full size in one of these in about 8 months. Yeah, that’s pretty crowded, but they grow at different rates, so as you harvest the biggest ones, the smaller ones will have more room to grow.
One of the great things about doing this is you can use the effluent to grow many crops, including duckweed and water hyacinth to feed back to the fish, thus reducing your feeding costs, as well as tomatoes, lettuces, etc. I’m not a huge fan of eating the tomatoes, as they do taste a bit fishy, but the chickens LOVE them, so this is a great way to convert fish poop into chicken eggs and it cleans the water they live in.
I guess I should write an article about this.
I might add that this works really well in warmer climates, or inside a modestly insulated greenhouse. Tilapia do not do well at temps below about 50 degrees, and they’ll die below 45. We grow ours year-round in a greenhouse, and the tote is insulated AND HEATED, so the water temp never drops below about 65 degrees, even when it’s well below freezing outside.
I would be greatly interested in your experiences using IBC totes for Aquaculture and hydroponics.
I’ve never heard of tomatoes tasting fishy, did you experience this firsthand?
Links would be awesome.
I am using one right now to rear about 350 that we hatched late last year. We have three tanks for growing, including the IBC. The only issue with the IBC is it’s not as easy to keep the water clear as a round tank, as the shape does not lend itself for efficient circulation. I have to do a partial water change every couple weeks, even with the water being filtered, but this only takes a couple hours.
The tomatoes were cherry tomatoes, and were growing in hydroton in a bin that was fed by one of the round tanks after going through the biofilter system. They looked good, but the tomatoes just tasted, for lack of a better word, fishy. It is entirely possible that I imagined it, but I did not eat any more… just gave them to the chickens.
I’ll work on some sort of an article about this with photos.
I am using four IBC’s in an insulated shed from a spring and a dozen filled and stored outside as a back up. My inside tanks won’t freeze but some pipes will
if not insulated. My spring tanks feed a pump, but can gravity feed the house.
If you are new to heating with wood, use a wood box fed from the outside and open near the stove. Having a truck accessible to the box is helpful as well. I keep two ricks near the box and six in storage.
Heating with wood is lots of work and is ok when you are young, but when you are old it can be brutal. Make it all as easy as possible!
I have a neighbor who stacks the Norwegian way. Nothing to buy. Just learn the method. Everybody admires his beautiful round stacks.
https://www.rusticwares.com/blogs/news/norwegian-wood-or-how-i-learned-to-love-stacking-wood-in-neat-little-mounds
Good idea, never heard of it, and I have been cutting fifty years and have even been to Norway!
The neighbor who does it sells some of the wood (at boutique prices) and the pretty stacks advertise themselves! He was all sold out by the end of February. 🙂
One of the best things about coming to this site is learning about lifestyles I haven’t been exposed to before. Raised in the city and near suburbs of Chicago. Urban life has it’s good points, but you gotta love the farm country.