Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Love sea bass, next to red snapper and hogfish, it's my favorite. But, I like all fish.

I suppose getting over the labor must be more of those hormones they keep talking about.
I do know that if my brother had been born first (with what Mom went through with him) I wouldn't exist, mom would have called it quits after just one even though she really believed in having a complete set (one Girl and one Boy.)

Oxytocin.

Thanks Ron. Where would we be without you.

TC if we had the twins first I don't think my son would be with us. One of the hardest things I have ever done. Don't know if I would have been willing to try another one.

I concur with the assertion that humans would disappear if men had to carry and deliver babies. Stronger sex my ass.

There are different kinds of strength, and then there is endurance, and flexibility.
I just wish I felt like I could get a good breath today. I thought he was supposed to settle lower here soon and give me a little more room in my rib cage to breath and eat! (drawback, when his head goes lower into the pelvis I get to live with it constantly pressing on my bladder, Sigh.)

On a more Aquaponic and farming related note, Live plants are selling well through the online market this week!

Why? Surely there must be something on the menu that she would like?

If it had topless waitresses or was a fast food joint I'd understand

Apparently the chairs are uncomfortable. Not something I noticed and we had a great evening when we went there so not sure why she doesn't like it.

It is one of life's mysteries Stu.

Next time she gives you that level of responsibility book the table and when she asks where tell her "its a surprise".

got the First two of the New Bunk Bed expansion planted with a variety of things.
Well maybe I should say North 4 and South 5 are planted seeing as how I'll hook up the plumbing to the indexing valves means that each group is going to be counted in a sort of clockwise fashion and #1 is not going to be one of the numbers right next to the valve the way I'm laying out the plumbing.
the beds right by the valves are going to be #4 and #5 of the bank and I'll count all the beds on the North Valve as N and all the beds on the South Valve as S. Probably can't get much more boring than that.

So North 4 now has a row of broccoli, Fennel and Kolhrabi
And South 5 has a row of Veronica, Fennel and Kolhrabi

Indexing valves should be here before the end of the week.

I need to find something easily available to use as caps over my gravel guards on these beds, the gravel guards are 6" pvc with slots cut in the part below the gravel. I don't really want to go buying PVC caps or anything like that and the flower pots I'd been using over the mesh guards are not big enough to really work well on the PVC.

My Uncle has been out working on shelving for the planting/harvesting/washing area. And of course our supply of tools is growing so now I need to figure out where we are going to install a freaking huge air compressor. He said he ordered it but I was expecting a little pancake compressor, ya know, something you can throw in the truck with the little generator to take around the farm and work on fencing and other projects. NO, this is the kind of thing for a big auto shop! Sigh. Not quite sure how they will get it out to the tree house for when it is time to finish that up.

Stu, you are brilliant. I will use that next time.

TC, I'm impressed, you just keep going, like a force of nature.

35 extra lb of mass does help with momentum, once I get moving it is harder to stop me. But it isn't quite as impressive when the moving includes the waddling motion.
Truth is, sitting still doesn't help with discomforts of Pregnancy so I just gotta keep going, (yes gotta keep going to the bathroom too,) I just find that the pregnancy ADD meas it is hard to keep track of what I was doing and since I have to stop and eat every couple hours and go to the bathroom about every hour........ Sigh......... I guess it is just trying to prepare me a bit for actually having a child to keep track of and care for.

Yeah it does seem like nature prepares you for what is to come. Especially when you have to start getting up multiple times in the night.

Very clever is our nature.

No more peectures? :/

Not too much exciting to take pictures of yet but here you go.

First a bit of Plumbing

Diversion valve in tank above water line with bypass for now. Haven't installed an actuator yet because I need to make another controller for it.


And the North (or far) group of beds.

The pipe right by the camera with water coming out is basically where I will have the valve with the ports 4 and 5 feeding a short bit of pipe right to the beds on either side of the valve. The rest of the ports will feed down to the ground and into the pipes that fan out and feed up to the other 4 beds.
I plumbed through the beds for the inlet pipes on those beds because the "drain holes" for the bunk feeders on most of the newer feeders I got were not right above the metal braces so I could use them as the guide hole for drilling the uniseal holes. On a side note, the liners in these bunk feeders are VERY thin plastic. I did experience some seeping out around the uniseals on some of these. Granted, I'm cheating by using 2" uniseals with 1 1/2" couplers through them so I can pull the pipes in/out for adjustment etc but the 1 1/2" couplers are just a touch smaller than 2" pipe so there is not as much compression of the uniseal out against the bed plastic and without the extra layer of the liner against a plastic backing, I have noticed some seeping of water around the outside of the uniseals. On some of them I pulled the uniseal out and added a little bit of Butyl tape before re-installing and others I left alone. Most of them have stopped seeping after a week or so of being left alone with water in them (starting to get a little slimy.) If I notice any of the feed pipes still leaking in the next week or so, I'll probably try spraying the outside where the uniseal and bed plastic meet with something like Flexi Seal to see what that does. Ask me again in a few months on that front to see if such action is effective.


And the South or Near group of beds.