Backyard Aquaponics
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pyro's will be pyros........................it has only been sheer lazyness of powdering the aluminium myself that has stopped me from doing it earlier

tooooo many cool u tube vids Although i dont think the ages of some of the voices playing with the stuff are right considering the extreme danger....................

VB, he copper sulfate is for a tiny bit of copper for the plants. There are no other sources for it in the system. I won't add it too regularly.

Steve, I can definitely vouch for that seller, hehe... The only thing is thermite isn't as exciting as the videos make out. Unless you make a cup full of it, muhahaha!

Anouther question I have about adding nuts to the system , is I go through a rapid evaporation period. So I have been adding nuts everytime i top up the tank. Today would have just started hitting the 30 oC mark and its only going to keep getting hotter up to the 50 oC if not higher. So 3000 lt of water is evaporating in about 10 days max, which is cauing all sorts of problems as i am finding it hard to keep the water levels topped up on a daily basis, with standing water, and have been all this time putting the hose into the tank to top it up. Need to fix that part , but havent lost a heap of fish since the system cycled at the start of set up.

So the question being am I adding too many nuts to the system too often?? i THINK I am, might hurt the plants maybe.

You're adding nuts...

What sort of nuts and why Jessy.... (apologises if you've outlined it before)

chelated iron, carp of coy, that sort of thing, sulfate of potash

Numb Nuts Rup, lots of them

Nuts = Nutrients

good to see i made someone smile today,

jessy, 3000L in 10 days seems like way too much..................

can you post a link to your system thread?

spining me out too steve, there are a few things I just aint really happy about, lets go to system in Onslow

I think you have a leak there somewhere Jessy - my max was 50l/day in the summer (+30c temps)

as Steve said, where is your system thread????

okay heading to system thread

How much would one expect to may for a kilo of Potassium Bicarbonate? Anyone got a clue?

EcoRose/EcoCarb sells for about $18.50/500gm.... $35/kg....

Yep - which is why I wouldn't be buying it. Rip off.

Got a quote for a 5kg bag - food grade. With freight, it ends up plenty cheaper than that. Still need to just work out how much it is costing me for my current solution (cream of tartar). Can't remember the size of the little cans off the top of my head. Will look in shed tomorrow.