A bunch of you guys have been giving me a hard time for being somewhat "absent" from the forums for the last couple of weeks. Well, I figured it was about time to explain myself. :-) I've been working on several aquaculture projects that have kept me away from home for much of the time, and I've also been working on the construction of our newest hatchery building. Oh, and we broke ground on our new home last week as well. Forgot about that. hehehe.... So.... I may have bitten off a little more than I could chew, particularly with the 6 month old twins as well. However, things are starting to take shape, and the aquaculture projects are completed, so I should be getting back into the "normal" swing of things, I promise! :-) I thought I should share a little about the hatchery building with you all.
We now have the dry shell completed for our newest building addition at White Brook Tilapia Farm. This building is roughly 2,000 square feet. It will house most of our tilapia breeders and will result in a substantial boost to our output capacity. The building will be highly insulated and incredibly efficient. It will hold over 200 aquariums of various sizes, along with numerous larger holding tanks for trials we conduct with our tilapia strains. There will be about 16,000 gallons of water under roof, all said and done.
From past experience, we elected to add oversized overhead doors in order to move tanks and equipment around, as needed, with ease. Accessibility was always a problem with our other buildings, so this will help a great deal. Being able to run a pallet jack or forklift down the aisles and directly out of the building is a huge convenience and time saver. The "old" building will be used for growout only, and once we get the breeders transitioned into the new building we can begin working on the "old one" to improve on some things that, over time, we found to be quite inconvenient.
Some pictures are below. :-)
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