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Thanks every one for the feedback,yes my system has cycled but I will slowly build the feed up.
Also welcome aboard Hezzy,good luck with your set up,get a thread going and send in pics if you need a hand give me a yell.

hi everyone an update ph8.2,ammonia 0, niritite 0.25
Nitrate 0. Still feeding fish once a day started with half tablespoon and increasing it bit by bit each day.Fish look healthy and relaxed temps 18.2, some plants are a little yellow.but over all looking healthy and still growing.should I be doing anything else or carry on as I am? Cheers

Carry on.

Don't increase your feed rates much until your nitrites are gone..

Hi everyone water test today ph7.4,ammonia 0,nitrite 0.25maybe slightly under,nitates5.0
still feeding half a tablespoon.ph seems to swing up then down a lot.

HI every body can somebody tell me these reading

I would say ph 7.4 ammonia 0.25 but may just be the shadow making it look darker? Nitrites 0 and nitrates 0.

Still travelling well at this point so keep slowly increasing the feed each day


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yeah looking pretty good.
My experience was that the nitrates went really high and then the PH went down - then the nitrates went down also with more plant growth and stronger bacteria. But you seem to have some plants eating your nitrates and good bacteria possibly? Could also be your system is stable at a higher PH than mine, which is constantly pushing 6.0

Thanks guys its probably the six tomato plants I have three at one end and three at the other end

hi everyone just a update my ph7.4 ammonia0.25 nitrite0 nitrate0.this has been like this for at least 20 days now I thought I was suppose to get nitrates by now the plants are growing rapidly now and the trout are noticeably getting bigger by the day and I have been increasing feed rate slowly and now giving them one and a half tablespoons a day should I be doing anything else or just carry on as I have been doing? PS I have put some iron chelate in the system and I can see the improvement to the plants that were lacking in iron that was 4days ago.

There are no nitrates as your plants are growing really well and using them all. That is a good thing. I would increase the feed to two tablespoons for a couple days and if the tests are still ok then increase to 3 and test for a couple of days. it's going well so far


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Twenty trout, no nitrates, cycled system, I'd say you could up the feed rates substantially.

Definately cycled and crank the feed

Thanks guys good to hear I hope everyone didn't get much damage last night the wind and rain was full on here had to cover one side to protect the plants they were getting hammered mmm
Don't really want to go to work.

Hi all been a while since ive updated my water test as you can see i have nitrates now didn t have any for a long time plants are pumping along