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Well that typed from in my pocket!!!
Another family infected with the bug.
System looks great, the pre-reading and planning should make the learning curve more enjoyable!!


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As you can see, some of the plants didn't make it. Be those that are left are looking good.




If you look close at the image below, you'll see what I'm worried about. What might I be messing up?

Here's a picture or two of the tank and fish.


hope you like them.

Temp steady 76F
Ph - 6.4 +1/2 t Baking soda -> 7.0 (perfect)
Ammonia: 0.125 ppm
NO2: 0ppm
N03: 100 ppm

The Dinasaur Bichir Eel (Avatar) has been happily gorging on the ghost shrimp infusion.
The tomatoes in the back corner are starting to look like real plants now.

After re-'tonning, we've seeded the other two beds. Left one is salad. Radishes, carrots, Spinach. The middle is Herbs. Basil, Cilantro, and chives? (didn't seed it).
The gutter garden will be getting fixed tonight, put up and re-plumbed. Anyone else have experience with gutter gardens wish to chime in?

Yesterdays levels.
Ph - 6.Then
Amm -0.25ppm
No2-0ppm
NO3- 80ppm

Just had more plants pop up. Tomatoes and beans

Also just seeing carrots.

Please HELP! What am I missing?


Wierd is to only way I'll describe what's been going on.

pH has bee 6.4 and lower
Amonnia: 0.25ppm
NO2: nonexistant
NO3: 80 ppm

Weekly adds:
5 gallons H2O add/week,
We picked up some chealated Iron, and Maxicrop power, mixed up a gallon, and am adding a capful in the sump a week. (1 Tbspn)


Modifications... Flow diversion on the sump return, to the Lettuce Ladder.

*3rd bed ((Peas and tomatoes) is an ebb-flow with no siphon. the other two are siphon, and unsuccessfully sprouting much of anything.

*We've had big problems with the root rot (I think) when the dead plants are pulled, the root zone is a small shrivelled black/grey mass.

*Water temp has been moved up to 83°F to combat root rot.
Since this temp increase, the roots have grown.

*he pea grew three four feet and then shriveled and is dying. Not sure why.
The tomatoes aren't growing much at all, certainly no flowers, and nothing else holds up for long.

*But on a good note the lettuce is growing slowly, but it's growing.

*We put a panty sock full of coral sand near the drians to the sump. It's Not enough buffer.

Do I need other supplements? I'm not looking to put in more $$, but It feels like we're so close.

UPDATE:
Still having a slow grow...

Lettuces are wilting, we have tall tomatoe plant with the bottom leaves browning in spots
pH is steady around 6.4 with a slow drop until we buffer up.

Weekly input:
14 gallon add of de-cholorinated tap water.
I put a Milk-Cap-full of Maxicrop concentrate into our 100 gal system per week.
We are going to do a vacuum and waterchange this week.
We planted more beans a month ago and they took off, but have not fruited and the bottoms are wilting like everything else...

Not sure what to do.