Backyard Aquaponics
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Trout not so excited about their food tonight and there were a few pellets uneaten half and hour later so, maybe I have been pushing it a bit too much. Will skip the morning feed tomorrow and try them with a few pellets after the footy .

The stupid things that can happen eh. Went out to check on the trout system and opened the sump lid to find one growbed return with nil coming out. Pulled the ball valve off the growbed inlet and found a 150mm dead trout stuck in it. The holes in the SLO are only small so he must have gotten in there weeks ago when I first got them and grew in the 90mm pipe till now.

Now thats wierd!!!!!

Glad you found him though... could have gone real bad real quick.

Yeah really weird Charlie. A week or so ago I got home to find the sump empty and the fish tank overflowing as the outlet was completely blocked. I gave the main backbone outlet pipe to the growbeds a good shaking and GLOOP some gunk came out of the outlets and it freed up. Refilled sump and thought it must have been just some build up of gunk. Now I am thinking this fella must have died and jammed somewhere and the gunk built up around him to block the pipe.
Checked the slo Tee at the bottom of the fish tank this morning thinking maybe I knocked the end cap of on side of the Tee when putting the air lift filter pipe in the tank. But all is good so the only holes fish can get into are about 15mm
Anyhow, all good now I hope and the fish fed like nutters this morning

Rest of the trout are ok and smashing 7mm pellets but dunno if I am gonna get a bean of this lot. Lots of growth, and just lately lots of flowers, now come on beans

Wow, thats going nuts!!!

Yeah, dunno if its been a good idea to plant out two beds to broad beans, but time will tell. Still learning eh

Yep, I cant work it out either yet mate.

Hows that timber cover going? Was it form board or something.. cant remember the name of it. I can remember when you first made it and I was wondering how well it would go in the weather. Its still looks the goods.

The lids on the sump and fish tank are Modwood and are tough as. i walk across the sump to get to the beds that have the beans in. Expensive but will last big time

Pulled out the broad beans in one of the ibc's as they had covered the path and sump and were not setting beans. Compost bin is now full and have planted out some brocolli

Just cleaned out the ibc bed that had broad beans. Boiling the pot now to blanch then freeze them

After cleaning out the ibc broad beans that were covering two beds I noticed the bed near the fence had sunk at the fenceline. So a bit of jacking and adjusting got it back level

Nice to be eating fresh veggies this coming winter!

Thats a lot of beans!

Ooooo... blank canvas, what are you going to plant?

Have planted a dozen lettuce and silver beet , a yellow pepper and a couple of tommys. One of the tommys was a cutting that I rooted in the clay ball bed in the greenhouse.