Backyard Aquaponics
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How time flies... It's been 4 years since I posted on my thread...

I recently did a bit of work on my system, a change that I've been meaning to do for a few years now. I increased the return pipe from sump to fish tank up from 25mm to 40mm. The return line couldn't keep up with the flow coming from the fish tank through the beds sometimes. New pipe is heaps better..

Also put in a battery backup air pump as I'd never put one on the system before..

I ripped out all the plants and replanted the whole system.. Have now started pumping the feed into the silvers with at least twice a day feeds. There's only about 15 silvers in there but plant growth has been pretty good so far..

The system has been really neglected since the shop started and it's really just been ticking over for at least a couple of years now. I've only fed small amounts and left the plants to go ferrel and self seed. Interesting to see that you can just turn a system around and go from almost hibernation, into rapid growth by pumping the feed back into it..

As promised on another thread, pictures will be coming very soon...

Ha this is going to be a blast from the past! Can't wait to see how it looks... just wondering what you're going to find at the bottom of that FT

Hey Dave.....

Been getting a few enquiries from S.A. lately, you must have been talking over there....

Hey I don't leave home without my BYAP cap on - and yeah I don't stop talking about AP either, people over here think I'm nuts count me in if you're going to send a container over...

Haha the thread still lives!! Although pics or it didn't happen

I'm sure EB will eventually contribute SOMETHING to this forum ......

Any estimates on how big those SPs are now Joel ?

cmon EB you said on anopther thread you were taking pics of the system

Alright just to prove there's something growing.... Pretty crappy pics though because it's dark out there.. Will try and get some better ones on Saturday during the day..

You reckon that's crappy. They look sooo healthy, and wasn't it just the other day that you planted them?

Very nice, very nice - certainly plenty of nutrients in such a mature system

Looking great Joel

Is that a mass of flat leaf parsley or celery? We let the celery go to seed last year in the school system and I think I pulled about 1000 celery seedlings out of a grow bed today trying to thin back to just three decent seedlings. They are also popping up in all the other beds.

That's self seeded parsley... I think.. There was also a couple of celery plants there which could have self seeded, but I'm pretty sure most of it is parsley.

Did a bad thing the other day, after telling soo many people that they should have a tap timer just in case they forget to turn off their taps when topping up systems, I did it myself..

The whole day running into this system...

When I got home in the afternoon I noticed the water everywhere.. Two silver perch had jumped ship over the side of the very full tank and the water in the fish tank had a green/blue tinge to it and looked extremely clean..

Still a couple of days later and there have been no losses from the system apart from the 2 jumpers. Just wasted about 8 hours of water though, which is terrible.. I guess that negates a fair bit of my water savings, though I know plenty of people that would water their garden for 8 hours in a week or two.

whoops

holy crap just had another look at the photos i gues syou can never have too muck parsley hey