Backyard Aquaponics
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Just don't bring it back tooooo quickly, it will stress the fish. aim for less than 0.5 ph per day or less

My system is going really well now ... has a slight leak at one of the joins, but I lose more in evaporation than through it.

I tossed out a lot of the lettuce, and threw in a Tomato ( some form of cherry. can't remember which ) and a strawberry.

The tomato is going crazy, it grew so quick I wasn't prepared to start supporting it. One of the main branches bent and half-broke. I've tied it up by using loops of twine supporing the horizontal(ish) branches now.

The strawberry is doing well too, got our first ripe one ready today.

I'll have to take some new photos of it.

Here's some photos :



First bunch of tomatos :

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Almost ripe strawberry :



Seedling from a bunch of seeds I threw in from kitchen scraps, either tomato or jalepeno, I think tomato though.

updated photos





and this little fellow was hanging around last night on a window-sill eating all the moths



Question: How do I stunt the tomato bushes growth? Can I just prune all new vertical growth and encourage horizontal ? Or can that damage the bush?

Nice tomatoes UT, Raimo put up a thread on tomato growing but it was to get the best out of the plant not stunt its growth.

Here is a link to it
http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/forum ... 4476#64476
just keep laying them down, cut off the useless branches and pick tomatoes

My first nearly ripe tomato :-



and a bean!

In an effort to bring back some decent growth rates of my plants I've just put 10 feeder goldies in my tank. I'm about to cover 3/4 of the tanks sides with alfoil to help reduce algae on the sides.

Here's some pictures of some cool bugs ( no idea what ) that are either just hatching, or laying, I couldn't tell which. ( two bugs bunch of eggs, when I first noticed them one looked like he was 3/4 out of an egg ).

now that you took the pic of the bugs, get rid of them. Feed them to the frog.

Are they bad bugs? All of those eggs have hatched now and there's about 8 of them hanging around on that leaf.

I replaced the glass tank with a food-grade plastic tub ( $11 from the B ). Has been a couple of days now and the nitrates have skyrocketed! I'll have to stop feeding them for a few days. PH seems good, and ammonia/nitrites were low.

aha its all your fault my life is dedicated to AP