Indoor garden or hydroponics setups

GreenFire719

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Hey guys! I’ve been looking into my options for providing fresh food for my tortles and was hoping to see if anyone here has a setup for growing food indoors. My backyard is full of clay and very prone to flooding so it’s not the best for growing things in (as well as having noisy dogs). I already grow a couple of things inside in separate pots but I want to do it more efficiently/cost effective. If anyone has advice or does any “bigger” scale growing I’d appreciate it.
Things I’d probably want to grow would be more “lettuce-like” plants like endive and arugula, zucchini, squash, and broadleaf weeds. Oh and this is probably a long shot but mushrooms too for my eastern boxie if anyone has experience in that. Thanks guys! [emoji173]️
 

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I grow pothos over a pair of fish tanks, turning goldfish pop into tortoise food....

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What makes it difficult to grow plants indoors is the fact they need really bright light. You should have no trouble at all if you can provide a very bright light.
 

Tim Carlisle

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I wish I could do something along those lines. Unfortunately, my wife has a high intolerance to black mold, so no standing water. We are not even supposed to have house plants. :(
 

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the top is a 500gallon pond , it serves as a part of the filter for the small 70 gallon pond on the bottom …. 8-9 P.R.manni live in the small bottom pond area , I believe it's been at least 5 yrs since I cleaned the pond or the filter …… there are 20 four foot fluorescent bulbs most 6500k , and a few 2800k …….. the one tree in there blooms every winter , it's awesome , you can smell it throughout the house ……….

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No tips on getting them to grow but I wouldn’t put energy into things you can easily get at the grocery store, which include endive (and most of the chicories) and arugula.

Zucchini is a great choice if you have the space. Even if they don’t live long you’ll get a decent amount of food out of it and another plant is cheap.

You might just go with one of the tortoise seed mixes, like the one from Tortoise Supply. It’s got plenty of variety, if you have the light for it.

And you might as well look around for a type of cactus that will do well in your climate. Someone here will have some experience with what will or won’t grow; there are more options that you might think.
 
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