Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

How have your temperature test been going? Have you been able to keep the water warm enough for tilapia?

I've considered duck weed but have heard horror stories about it taking over your tank, clogging your pumps and filters and generally being a nuisance. I don't know if it was a specific type, but after seeing the video I've been leery of it. I keep meaning to research it a bit more but it's still a ways down on my list.

I grow duckweed both in my fish tank (full IBC) and a 100l tank that I add my topup water to before it migrates to the sump. As long as you pull all the water from the bottom of your tanks with a SLO, there really cant be any way for it to cause a problem.

Because it floats, it's also very easy to empty a tank of it. When ever I want to take video of the fish, (there have been a few times for my blog) I've just run around the surface with a kitchen sieve. It take perhaps 3 minutes.

It would definitely be a problem if you put it into an irregular shaped natural looking pond and ever wanted to be completely rid of it because just one missed leaf would see it making a comback, but getting rid of it in something like a fishtank is easy enough.

If it wasn't for smartphone alarms and appointments, all I'd ever get done is typing random stuff on forums (Foru?)

Although it has to said, only an hour ago an alarm went off on my phone telling me that I have something that's going to take up the next week, and I have absolutely no idea what it is. I guess that's why they let you name appointments. I hope I'm not too busy doing "New event" this week.

Forui

I justremembered what it was. This week is the due date for my solar charger delivery.

Yay.

Wow... solar flare due eh??? ...

Flare - to get dramatically larger at the end

Charger - See "Papillon"

That's a cryptic (and very clever (in my own opinion( (including nested bracketry)))) joke by the way, not an actual reference to the unit I bought, and in no way casts anything but assumptions of profound wholesomeness on the part of the retail outlet selling me said solar charger.

The temp has been at least 55 deg F with the heater -- and that includes through the cold spell we had a while back. Lately it's been up around 65. So I'm thinking I almost could do it...but I'm a little apprehensive...

Duckweed will find you, whether you want it or not. It spontaneously generated. I'm convinced of it.

When we were living in Vancouver, I built a whiskey barrel pond on the patio. I got a half-barrel from Bi-Mart and filled it with water and let it sit for a few days to make sure it wasn't going to leak. One day I noticed something floating on the water. It was a single leaf of duckweed. I hadn't put in anything yet, just the water. I have no idea how it got there -- we were in town, nowhere near a lake, pond, stream, etc.

I've had duckweed ever since.

And speaking of ADHD, how come I've never known about these before?

Forii.



If I ever lost my phone I would not be able to function. I honestly don't know how I ever knew where I was supposed to be when, before I had it. I certainly would never have been able to sort out which days I worked where, and would have to have only one job in one hospital at a time.

At work (at my main job) they finally hired us a personal secretary. Only they're calling him a "coordinator." He'll be the one dealing with all the phone calls and pages and random requests and administrative details and figuring out which patients need to be seen by whom, paging doctors who ask us for consults but don't tell us why, and making them tell us instead of us having to try to guess because we can't stay next to a phone long enough to page them and have them call us back, and stuff like that.

This means those of us who are supposed to see patients will actually have time to SEE PATIENTS! I'm excited, since that's the part I went to all that school for, and what I signed up to do when I took the job.

He already kept me from forgetting like three different things I needed to remember to do today. One of which was eating lunch. It's amazing how much more work I can get done toward the end of the day when I've remembered to eat lunch in the middle of it.

Also, I got to come home on time. That NEVER happens.

I'm voting we keep him.

Incidentally, tangent123123, the fact that we met on an international forum and still have not met face to face despite both living in the same town and it being roughly the size of a postage stamp (depending on how far you zoom in on Google Earth) is really unacceptable. We're going to have to fix this.

And Ace Hardware has expanded clay growing media, in case you didn't see when I posted about that. They got another shipment in, and called to tell me. I love that about small towns. I love it so much I went and bought some from them even though I didn't need any more.

It's called "Plant!t," in case you go looking for it. It's cheaper than Hydroton, and I like it better.

Is this for real???

'Cause, I mean, we badmouth Twinkies for their ingredient list all the time, and here I've always wanted to taste Tim Tams because supposedly they're so amazingly awesome...

I may have to issue an apology or something...(you too, RonMaggi!)

TimTams truly are everything people claim and more.

Really really really good.

As far as I know they contain no Soma or Soylent Green.

If you PM me an address, I'll send you a packet in return for a packet of twinkies


I don't think there has ever, in the entire history of deals, ever existed an offer so one sided