⚠️ This forum has been restored as a read-only archive so the knowledge shared by the community over many years remains available. New registrations and posting are disabled.

All times are UTC + 8 hours




Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 559 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1 ... 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 ... 38  Next
Author Message
 Post subject: Re: Aquaponics Hungary
PostPosted: Dec 2nd, '11, 17:03 
Bordering on Legend
Bordering on Legend
User avatar

Joined: Jan 1st, '11, 09:49
Posts: 455
Gender: Male
Are you human?: de
Location: Debrecen, Hungary
I achieved minor progress with the datalogger. Date logging repaired, hummidity logging repaired, but unforunately all temp sensors crashed. I have to unmount it and to find the problem, this is for the weekend. :(

Also a project for the weekend is to measure and maybe if needed select the fish to two branches. Big ones, and smaller ones. I also want to know how the weight of the big guys, as one or two of them are plannet to be the starter for our family christmas event!

Its foggy again, and the forecast says more fogg for the weekend and rain as well. Don't be too said I brought you some intresting video. This is my firt try to make some funny underwater shots. :)

Weapons: A cheap small camera, a huge glass jar, some of my socks to hold tha cammera still and on target on the bottom fo the yar. :D




Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
    Advertisement
 
 Post subject: Re: Aquaponics Hungary
PostPosted: Dec 2nd, '11, 21:11 

Joined: Aug 13th, '10, 20:30
Posts: 2
Gender: Male
Are you human?: Yes
Location: NJ
For the SLO...just put a T instead of a hole....love your set-up...I'll be posting mine soon!


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Aquaponics Hungary
PostPosted: Dec 2nd, '11, 21:33 
Bordering on Legend
Bordering on Legend
User avatar

Joined: Jan 1st, '11, 09:49
Posts: 455
Gender: Male
Are you human?: de
Location: Debrecen, Hungary
I tried a T instead a hole ant that cause an overflow in a few seconds, because the diameter of the SLO pipe is not enough for an overflow only operation. ;)


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Aquaponics Hungary
PostPosted: Dec 2nd, '11, 22:30 
Moderator
Moderator
User avatar

Joined: May 27th, '06, 04:57
Posts: 6480
Images: 0
Gender: Male
Are you human?: I'm a pleasure droid
Location: Frederick, Maryland
I was wondering about your SLO zsazsa. Do you have another overflow hole up higher just in case the SLO holes get clogged for some bad reason?


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Aquaponics Hungary
PostPosted: Dec 3rd, '11, 00:54 
Bordering on Legend
Bordering on Legend
User avatar

Joined: Jan 1st, '11, 09:49
Posts: 455
Gender: Male
Are you human?: de
Location: Debrecen, Hungary
If the top hole cloggs, the SLO sticks on siphon mode. This means that ths SLO sucks down the FT to the level of the irrigation tank. Than the siphon breaks and the water tops up again to the overflow point, when the siphon starts again.

On the bottom I have aprox 30 holes. If you see it in operation you are sure that its unable to clogg. It has a huge suction. Buts lets play with the worst case scenario. Half of tham is clogged it cant support the SLO with water > water level raised > the SLO switches to siphon mode.
Than it either clear the clogging because raised suction, or if enough holes clogged it overflows the FT.


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Aquaponics Hungary
PostPosted: Dec 3rd, '11, 19:16 
Bordering on Legend
Bordering on Legend
User avatar

Joined: Jan 1st, '11, 09:49
Posts: 455
Gender: Male
Are you human?: de
Location: Debrecen, Hungary
Big job done today morning: Fish measurement.

Attachment:
20111203651_.jpg
20111203651_.jpg [ 101.21 KiB | Viewed 5620 times ]


The small ones are arround 150gr :wave1:

The big one on the right with mouth open is 274gr :thumbright:

The biggest one closest to the bottom of the pic is 334gr :shock:

I found one that has a swimmbalder problem, or has a gasy belly, that one is in quaranteen now, mor over tha one is missing one of its front swimmer. Im gonna select the fish into two groups. Big ones - Small ones.


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Aquaponics Hungary
PostPosted: Dec 4th, '11, 16:00 
Bordering on Legend
Bordering on Legend
User avatar

Joined: Jan 1st, '11, 09:49
Posts: 455
Gender: Male
Are you human?: de
Location: Debrecen, Hungary
The weather is crazy! The night was +5C, and its warming! They expect +7-9C today and tomorrow, with rain...


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Aquaponics Hungary
PostPosted: Dec 4th, '11, 19:56 
Moderator
Moderator
User avatar

Joined: Jan 11th, '07, 14:20
Posts: 6449
Location: Perth
Gender: Female
Location: Jandakot
If you haven't eaten your own trout yet Zsa Zsa, let me tell you 334g is a nice starter in butter, garlic and parsley!


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Aquaponics Hungary
PostPosted: Dec 5th, '11, 17:39 
Bordering on Legend
Bordering on Legend
User avatar

Joined: Jan 1st, '11, 09:49
Posts: 455
Gender: Male
Are you human?: de
Location: Debrecen, Hungary
No, have tasted my own trout yet. I have tasted the catfish, but no trout so far.

But the day is comming, its gonna be on the christmas family party. ;)


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Aquaponics Hungary
PostPosted: Dec 6th, '11, 20:37 
Bordering on Legend
Bordering on Legend
User avatar

Joined: Jan 1st, '11, 09:49
Posts: 455
Gender: Male
Are you human?: de
Location: Debrecen, Hungary
Just a little sunshine and the GH air temp is back in the 20s ;)


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Aquaponics Hungary
PostPosted: Dec 8th, '11, 20:29 
Newbie
Newbie

Joined: Jan 28th, '11, 23:38
Posts: 39
Gender: Male
Are you human?: am i?
Location: Greece Ioannina
Great to hear that zsazsa!Hope to gain a lot of heat these days.By the way great job ,huge amounts of information and very interesting videos


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Aquaponics Hungary
PostPosted: Dec 8th, '11, 22:44 

Joined: Dec 8th, '11, 22:06
Posts: 8
Gender: Male
Are you human?: yes
Location: Hungary
Dear Zsazsa, (and readers of this group)

Finally I am here. :-)
A few unimportant things about myself. I live in Hungary (!) in a little village some 250 kms from Debrecen. I work as a farmer and try to make ends meet by growing (fairly successfuly) and selling (well, ahem) vegetables. Potato, carrots, parsley, onion, tomato, you name it... I have a university degree from chemistry - it might come handy if you need help in that department. :-) I have several hobbies, eg. tinkering with electronics. I like making small gadgets with microcontrollers - I'm glad you found the magic word "Arduino" for the datalogger, otherwise I should have told you. :-)

I'm contemplating to build a poly-tunnel to be able to extend my growing season and I got this aquaponics bug for a while. Unfortunately I have financial barriers and I try to plan twice and spend once so I'm still collecting the available info tidbits on this topic.

On the other hand I'm impressed by your work and achievements with your passive growing house and keep my fingers crossed because if you can make it (against our weather!) then it is the possible best info for me and my planning... So keep up the good work!

Anyway, I really can't be of great help at the moment, because I don't have an actual aquaculture facility and first hand experience with aquaculture but I have experience with net-caught small wild fish in an aquarium, I have seen and cured ich, I tried aquaponic lettuce in a big bowl, know that the hot soldering iron looks exactly like the cold one, etc.

So I will check this thread from time to time and chime in when I feel the urge. Of course, you can PM me and we can chat in Hungarian as well.

Cheers,


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Aquaponics Hungary
PostPosted: Dec 9th, '11, 20:53 
Bordering on Legend
Bordering on Legend
User avatar

Joined: Jan 1st, '11, 09:49
Posts: 455
Gender: Male
Are you human?: de
Location: Debrecen, Hungary
Pumukli wrote:
Finally I am here. :-)


Glad to have you here. Pm-ed you a phone number, alsoif you feel like, join my FB page: http://www.facebook.com/aquaponics.hu

Im having problems with hummidity. Its humid inside the vapor is all around constantly and its not funny. Im thinking of covering the sumps and the tank with a clear plastic sheet, to reduce evaoration.

Have you read anybody with similar problem?


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Aquaponics Hungary
PostPosted: Dec 9th, '11, 21:15 

Joined: Dec 8th, '11, 22:06
Posts: 8
Gender: Male
Are you human?: yes
Location: Hungary
I thought humidity in cold weather will be a problem. I thought it because I have been growing oyster mushrooms for a few years in a low-tech poly building and I obviously needed fairly high humidity to do that - but it was hard to do it right when it was cold.

Covering the tanks will help somewhat (because you don't have too much vegetation at the moment) but it might cause another problem: lower DO in your tanks. Fortunately the lower water temperature (and reduced feeding, etc) will probably offset this. But you must keep it in mind!

I fear that humidity will eventually find your OSB panels, they are pretty cold and condensation occurs. Then in a few weeks green mold (Trichoderma) develops on the wood surface and it will be a constant spore source after that, all year around... Unhealthy, especially for the kids. (Since I was a mushroom grower I may be "oversensitive" regarding the problem of spore load in the air, but my very first reaction was this "ouch-feeling", when I saw your osb-panel walls. Big, nice, untreated and cold wood surfaces in a humid environment is a big NO for me.)

I know it is not much help but if I were you I would try everything to dry the air. Covering the tanks can be a good step.

Keeping my fingers crossed,

Pumukli


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Aquaponics Hungary
PostPosted: Dec 13th, '11, 18:43 
Bordering on Legend
Bordering on Legend
User avatar

Joined: Jan 1st, '11, 09:49
Posts: 455
Gender: Male
Are you human?: de
Location: Debrecen, Hungary
November weather was abnormaly cold, like a normal january. No sun, no rain, cold.
December is way warmer than it the normaly so far.

The plants suffering. The types that did well in the authomn, are not the ones that I need for the winter. I should have planted more cold tolerant greens in september, I had no problem.

Attachment:
20111206655_.jpg
20111206655_.jpg [ 155.26 KiB | Viewed 5325 times ]


The fish are fine and hungry, I reduced their feed rate by a third. I had one that lost ballance again, I put it into the the sump for a week, but it didnt get better so today morning I released it from the pain.
Attachment:
20111213659_.jpg
20111213659_.jpg [ 105.89 KiB | Viewed 5325 times ]


It was one of the smallest, ended its career with netto 90grs.
I mastered myself in trout gutting from some online videos, and I'am proud of the result.

I asked Rob about humidity. And he gave an answer that deep inside i was not hoping for.

This is an other issue where none has a solution? Im on the pioneer's path again...


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 559 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1 ... 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 ... 38  Next

All times are UTC + 8 hours


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  

Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group
Portal by phpBB3 Portal © phpBB Türkiye
[ Time : 0.107s | 15 Queries | GZIP : Off ]