Backyard Aquaponics
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Yesterday added plants ,added ammonia half the amount ,the ammonia levels read low,the product I have is maxi crop,might be an idea to apply maxi crop first check, ammonia levels ,then add ammonia accordingly.

Maxicrop is good. Especially maxicrop with iron.

Have added Maxi crop ,readings ammonia 0.3ppm ;nitriet3.3 'ppm nitrate 0.00 tem 59F ,not adding ammonia until ammonia levels subside.

Do you have a heater for your fish tank, or maybe something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDpZZuAezMI
Cheers.

PS I wonder how long before nitrates appear,? have added small maxi crop to system.amounts of

Your plants look happy

computer went down for three days ,since picks taken..Have you any new pictures of your system? ,my garden is very small ,so I am limited as to building more systems ,the original system need modifying ,also plan to build a pipe system .It will go along the wall of the greenhouse ,useful to over winter geraniums in winter- ",they seem to do well in the aquaponics system.". I am hoping the nitrite levels are subsiding ,have acquired a bottle of ammonia ,"that will give me a more control on dosage . Cheers

My system isn't doing that well at the moment and I don't have the money to finish it so I'm just plodding along until I get my tax return. I've got 8 Koi and 6 Goldfish which range in size from about 80mm to around 140mm and they all seem healthy. I've had the Koi for about 6-8 weeks and I added the Goldfish 2 weeks ago and since adding the Goldies all the fish have slowed eating. I want to build a water heater like the one in the link in the earlier post and hopefully the warmer water will make a difference. Time will tell..

Hi I wished I lived nearer I would give you a hand .Surly it would be easier to buy a fish tank heater ,it would give you steady readings be much cheaper than try to make one .At the moment I am looking how to filter water from the rain tank ,I cannot get to the gutter pipe to clean ,water looks yellow in colour ,reluctant to put in A.Q. system , after buying a new water butt but ,I don't know what exactly will be filtered out ,the only good thing about using rain water you can cut P.H- levels.-".P.H "round here is about 8.5 very hard water ,well there is no ammonia in system ,nitrite levels still quite high still no nitrites ,"well slight colour in test tube ? shows whitish colour ???

Hi .looking on YouTube ,good video showing how to make a water filter ,just too buckets with a Daulton supercarb filter fitted through the first bucket ,small hole drilled, through the bottom of second t bucket to allow water through ,wing nut fits a long mount, cartridge 7" high 2" diameter ,give me a gallon of water ,enough to top up system .Water I will use from the water butt ,reason for buying filter simply that I cannot clean the gutter ,owing to an adjacent building .",you can get larger filters mine ,cost £15.00 pounds ,well worth looking on you tube ,filter arrives next week ,so will show picks .Cheers

Reference The water filter gives five gallons of water not two ,this is using barrel, water nitrites still high no ammonia added .

Reference At last I have nitrates ,nitrites 0.8ppm ammonia 0.2ppm ,I used a small amount of maxi crop ,nitrates 0.2 ppm .Just waiting for filters to arrive ,then acquire two buckets to make the water filter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75Ne5xGc9kc

So you'll plumb your filter into the system - only collecting rain water?

Then put an overflow pipe up high in the top bucket when there is too much rain?

Hi the filter system consists of two buckets ,water taken from water butt ,whereas filtered water added slowly to sub tank, still working on idea's ,the filters arrive Wednesday. :

Yeah you take rain water out of downpipe and plumb into top bucket - but you need an overflow pipe, out of the top bucket - incase it gets too full in a downpour, yes?

Or are you manually adding the water?