Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

lol, 2 buck floating jobbie, but when lyndsay was over on tuesday he dropped his Ja-rool one in there and it read within 0.5C of mine (cant remember if it was high or low)

sorry to butt in, .. but i will anyway, whats the ideal water temp meant to be??

they normally read higher.
to be on the safe side.
would hate for the buggers to take up floating, swimming is much better.

for trout 15c,
but that is objectionable.
10-16

whos BK?

im bk lmao

not who is BK I meant whos A.... Bk?

ahh,
i thought the bacteria growing in the medium had to be between 20*-25*

it must be alot of effort to keep it at 15*.. no chance of keeping trout in brisbane then.. heh

no unless you have a cool room!

bacteria works best at 37*

not far off cooking them (trout) well sushi anyway

chook, 20-25 was for optimal bacterial growth at start up, they will go all the way down to above freezing with a corresponding drop in efficiency per colony size.

i'm at the end of my trout growing season. i'll keep the two largest ones in a tank indoors. if i get my heat exchanger chiller happening soon i may leave them in for a while longer just to play with the device, but i'm not going to expend energy on 38C days to keep them

we had 3 days in a row of 35+ the ponds were like soup with cordial bottles floating around

yeh, two days in a row would kill me

yeh kind off defeats the idea of sustainability...
guess you have a shithot (cool) aircon in ya house hey steve.