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Thats the same kind of crayfish I had too, the dude at the shop called it a 'red lobster'

Things all going well still, no further deaths, fish eating very well.
Water in the FT has gone a bit cloudy the last few days, has been crystal clear since the day I filled it.
Seems kinda odd.

Been playing with valves again, got the GB outlet sorted.
Have had the whole system running all day.
At the moment the indexing is done by time, but I will add the water level sensors soon.

Good to see everything comes along Dui.

Thats a pawpaw tree there ainnit? and what kind of flowers are those?

Yes Papya, PawPaw or Ma la gor in Thai.
I'm ashamed to say I don't know what the flowers are, I put them in as a quick way to soak up some Nitrates, they happened to be in the same shop as the Papya and the Moringa.

One of the flowers went to seed today, so I planted them in the GB.
Plan is to transplant them to the garden when I finally get some time to sort things out.
Everything seems to have had a boost lately, beans and Kale starting to motor, probably as a result of me not fiddling and letting things be !

Electronics looking good, water sensors all wired in, just need a few days off in a row to install it fully and let it run.
I need to be at home to keep and eye on it for the first few days.

Yeah, it's amazing how important that can be !

Damn quick edit requirements...


I'm not very good on things I can eat and am happy to be corrected, but I think they're either daisies or marigolds.

Closer to a type of daisy, I'd say - def not a marigold - or at least not as I know them!

BTx

Hey guys.
An update..

Thanks to all who have given advice/comments so far on this thread, it's much appreciated !

Fish seem healthy no mishaps for a while now.
Electronics and 0-pressure valves, water sensors all working flawlessly.
Third GB is now online thanks to the micro controlled indexing.
I don't have enough water in the ST to flood 3 at a time, but the micro gives me total flexibility to control how much water is in any place at one time

Some more pics.
This pic is of some plant, I have no idea what it is or where it came from, it just started growing one day and has gone mad



Chinese Kale at the front, random flowers at the back.
I'm actually not a great veggie eater, but Chinese Kale is probably one of my fave.



Papya and beans looking very healthy indeed.
A friend of mine planted some papya (dirt) same time as this one, mine is looking much better than his, satisfying because he told me AP was unsuitable for papya because it was too wet.
Papya like lots of water, but also need good drainage.... Perfect for AP !




Good luck all

Dui.

very nice thread and system coming together , on that media i hope them little white rocks are not lime rocks. thats what cause my epic fail last try. media has been my biggest challenge to date , any stone i get i soak in buckets for a week or more now.

toyota! such fine machines we now have 2 , a 93 4x4 compact pickup and a 95 4 runner , pickup has 300k and 4 runner has 160k both are still very dependable.



dui i look forward to following your system progress , keep up the good work and have fun with a/p

Thanks Johnny.
Your Hilux looks well sorted for some off-road fun, but where's the snorkel

Glad to hear it's all running smoothly now Dui !! Want to see some photos of those fish soon !

CD the water is too cloudy for any decent pics of the fish.
Cloudiness kinda appeared overnight and just won't go away.
It looks like someone poured a large cup of coffee with extra milk in the tank, kinda brown murky turbidity.
I'm guessing that it is some sort of algae as it's not clearing.
Will cover things up properly again to see if it goes away.

toyota hey . .i got a toyata recovery vehicle sitting outside hehehe

good to hear all is going well dui
how long till you start eating fish??

Probably 2 months or so, trouble is, now there are so few, I've come to think of them as my mates lol, especially the one with only one eye, no idea how that happened!
The single crayfish is such a character, I don't think I could possibly eat him/her.
I'm not a girly vegetarian or anything, in fact quite the opposite, without meat I would starve !
It's obviously something I have to get over hehehe.
I may end up with 10 x 50kg catfish in my tank

Bet it feels good to have the system all running properly and fish surviving, good stuff bro

Well done on your papaya beating the dirt papaya, score one for AP