We've been working hard at building structures in our ACRESS staging grounds in the Seabright area of Santa Cruz. The cold weather has slowed some of our experiments with water hyacinth and water lettuce, but we're figuring out ways to keep our plants warm. Pictures will follow soon!
Our animal family is also doing well, except for our Oscars, which were eaten by a raccoon that dug into our greenhouse. We have since raccoon-proofed our mini-greenhouse and have received more fish donations. A woman from the East Bay donated three albino corydoras, which are miniature tropical catfish, and three guppies. We've decided that these smaller fish will better serve our aquaponics system and are less likely to tempt raccoons. We'll continue adding small, tropical, non-aggressive fish until we reach our desired balance of fish waste produced.
Our goal as an organization is to use tilapia for our aquaponics systems when we have our full set-up. While we're doing these small scale experiments, though, our corys and guppies will do just fine.
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