Backyard Aquaponics
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The last little cool spell for the year gave me one last chance to raise some gold goldfish fry. I lost most of the others due to one fry getting a little bigger and eating all of the others, or mis-management, or both, or all four (including this).

They look like this...



And I built a seamonkeyfarm, but windows 10 wont let you see it.

write billgates@microsoft.com to complain, and I'd CC a copy to obama@whitehouse.com to be sure

Fry look good, is that feed floating? Looks like a lot.

And also you've mentioned a lot about this sea monkey farm but we haven't seen it, I'm starting to think it's all a clever ruse.

Damn you windows 10.

how did the seamonkey farm go? Did it work?

Hi Bullwinkle11

Have now read about 30 of your Magazines

Found a tip in there for Iron deficiencies (but now cant re-find the article)

Each week when I add the Compost tea (made from all my weeds soaked in worm liquid) I add a teaspoon (heaped) of skim milk powder

Has made a NOTICABLE difference to my COMFREY

May be the Compost Tea or the Skim Milk Powder

Bon&Mark

Excuse me what magazines please? The BYAP magazines?

Don't neglect the Queen. She needs to know everything

Magazines that Bullwinkle11 gave away
Some from 1998

The gardening magazines are called,
"Earth Garden " (sustainable living and planet care for bush or city alternatives)

Your go with the fry sounds like mine. I killed a large batch of eggs by trying to separate them, and they didn't get enough water flow.

And the next batch were ask eaten by the larger fry.

Fungus seemed to take another batch. I've got about 60 in there now though.

Fry sound difficult to rear

that's actually on the bottom and was an attempt to drop in an entire flack of fishfood to see if they were interested. and there is some slime in there, and some other plant matter. I was only in for an hour or so.

I stuck a q-tip into an air hose to slow down water transfer, and now have a constant drip leaving the container to keep the water ticking over. I add water from my system outside a cup at a time whenever it looks low. Also the siphone taking out the water is set at a height so it can only take out around a third of the water, so its safe, and the tests show it's healthy. I can never see what they eat - thus the tests of dropping in everything to see. I siphon it out.

the word "flack" should be flake

A Q-tip stuck in an airline also makes a good airstone

Yeah, it seems to be working well. I have a new batch that are now around half the size of a full stop with a sharp pencil, so there's no chance of a photo, but this time I added some green water from my duckweed tank. Apparently these shrimp like that as a starter feed. It seems they are small enough to eat colour

I'll try to put up a pic of the device when I can see the little critters. My computer is a little old, and the up/downgrade to windows 10 really killed it.

There is a chelated iron product you can buy from bunnings that you can add to your system. Check with someone else first though, because there might be a couple of different types. I'd avoid adding any other iron to your system (just in case they suggested dropping in a few nails or something into a dirt garden.. It might not be a good idea for your fish)

My aquarium shop tells me the most important thing (other than good water and food) is to regularly grade them into similar sizes to stop a few getting all the feed. The problem is trying to find the right mesh sizes when they are very small.

I found the best feed was goldfish flakes that have been mortar and pestled into dust.

AH! *flails and points* IT'S YOU!

"120 things in 20 years" sounded familiar, so I clicked over there, and IT'S YOU! Er, I mean, a few years ago I was randomly surfing my way around the Internet (as you do), and I somehow ended up on your blog, and it was your posts on aquaponics that first got me interested in the idea! I lost the bookmark in a computer crash at some point and couldn't find it again, but retained the interest, and now I'm building my own system and having the time of my life.

...and here you are. Thank you!