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RE: Does anyone still have?
Hi Charles,
Although I have never built one of these systems, I have seen it in
photographs. The one I saw was very elaborate it involved a shelving unit
with rows of shoe boxes and yards of pvc plumbing and dozens of elaborate
fittings. As I recall it had two manifolds intake and output. It was a
marvel of engineering. Interestingly enough from what I was given to
understand it was never filled with water turned on or even tested.
I was told of a smaller system which was turned on and run. I was told that
it was truly amazing to see how many different kinds of killifish fry could
cohabitate in just one sump. As far as the efforts to screen the output of
the shoeboxes went, the problem was simple. If the screening material was
fine enough to keep the fry out of the sump it also clogged. This very
conveniently eliminated the problem of fry in the sump. Whereas on the floor
they can be more easily swept up.
If you were able to resolve the screening problem, you would still be
running headlong into the cost benefit issue. And just as importantly the
issue of disease spread. This could be resolved with a sterilizer on the
return line, assuming that you are using two manifolds, but that brings you
back to the cost benefit issue.
Best regards,
-RJ-
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-killietalk at aka_org [mailto:owner-killietalk at aka_org]On
Behalf Of Charles n Sue Harrison
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 9:16 AM
To: KillieTalk at aka_org
Subject: Does anyone still have?
During the early '90 there was a fry raising setup known then as the
"Trickle Flow Through System"
It was a setup of mostly vertical small tank/shoe box rack
arrangement of shoe boxes with holes cut in their sides and
collection tubes inserted and filter foam or other filter to keep fry
in the boxes as the water from above was allowed to drip into the
boxes and then flow out to be collected in the bottom holding tank of
the setup and pumped back up to the top to reuse again.
Does anyone still have one of these going??
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