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looking good Froggo . Congratualtions on livin the dream !!!

Im looking forward to following your progress,

Thanks Amo ,

it's been fun so far

I did some testing of our irrigation water today. I'm using this water in my system, here are the results.



No need to pee in this water, cows, fish or whatever have done the job already I've been running the pump now for a few days and these are the readings today.



Good to see some ammonia being converted, I need to get planting.


God bless, froggo

Hi everyone,

I tried to start some seeds in the sump beds using seeds wrapped in cotton wool. The idea was to keep the seeds moist between cycles and stop them moving to deep into the gravel media.

The sump beds have 50mm of dry gravel on top of the constant water level. Each hour at night the beds flood to 5mm below the surface watering the seeds. During the day its each 3 hours to help keep water temps down.

The seeds did not have enough go in them to push through the cotton so I've only had 50% success rate .

Back to direct sowing in the gravel.

God bless, froggo

Hi everyone,

not much happening here at the moment. New system has stalled due to on farm workload.

The completed section is running well without fish and I hope to get back to building grow beds during winter and installing more fish tanks.

God bless everyone and have a safe happy christmas/new year,

froggo.

Thanks for stopping in, Froggo. Have a great xmas mate

Hi everyone,

finally working a bit on AP system again.

Closing in the trout system shed to block out direct summer sun current water temp 20 C


Added a IBC for fingerlings. 300 new silvers on order. IBC is CHIFT PIST, all 90mm PVC, runs on it's own 10,000 L/P/H pump in sump

Some plants growing again even though they all self seeded from last crop. Rocket, coriander, radish, watercress and who knows what else

God bless, froggo.

Hi everyone,

just get working on AP again and a big storm knocks down fences in 9 places

Plenty of firewood now for winter

Cows think the grass is always greener over the broken fence so I need to fix the breaks quick smart.

Hope everyone is safe and well.

God bless, froggo.

Sorry missed this photo in the last post

Cows pushing and shoving each other and me to be first through the wrecked fence while I'm clearing up the mess

God bless, froggo.

Hi everyone,

picked up some new silver perch today for the fingerlings tank. [img][/img]


and to go in the two 500ltr sump tanks a few catfish to help keep thing stirred up. [img][/img]

Water temps are still at 20 degrees ever thought it's been hot, 36 C today. The buried tanks and fish shed seem to be helping keep temps stable and within range for the trout system.

The SP's are temporarily in the trout fingerling tank until I build stage 2 for the natives which I want to be warmer at about 25 C

God bless, froggo.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE

stay safe over the crazy season and hope everyone gets the new pumps and AP stuff they wanted from Santa.

God bless, froggo

Right back at us Froggo!

some fish started to die today no idea why. Fish just started to hang around the top of their tank, no startle reflex, looked like they were gasping but there was heaps of oxygen. Gills nice and red, no visable disease/fungus, 25 dead today so far. Did a 10% water change and running pump fulltime see how they go overnight.

God bless, froggo.

That sucks Froggo, good luck moving forward

Geez Froggo, that's harsh mate, real harsh, sorry to hear about that.

Thanks Bcasey2703 and Porter.

Overnight I lost another 13 but the survivors were all back to normal and seemed hungry. Got me stumped as to why this happened, only thing that was touched on system was a water top up the day before. The irrigation water may be the culprit? I did the 10% water change (700ltrs) with rain water and all good again now.


God bless, froggo.