Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

To give some background after buying my first home I was looking into various veggie growing options and stumbled onto AP, i did some research and built a basic IBC system which then had two blue barrels added, the system has been running for almost a year and i would say growth has been fairly good, however my dirt garden seems to match it with the growbeds (maybe helped by being rocket fuel homemade farm compost) this weekend it is time to take a further plunge and i plan on building what i think is called a cift pist system with an SLO, is the SLO likely to improve growth?

thanks everyone for all the info i have gained so far lurking

Welcome to the forum.

With the slo, it's just designed to help pull up the solids off the bottom of the tank. So if your previous setup was getting stuck with solids at the bottom of the tank, and not circulating, then the SLO will help in many ways.

I still suck with all the names of the systems, I figure as long as water circulates from the grow beds to the fish tank, it seems to work out. Well that's my theory anyway.

But for good growth, watch out for defeciencies in the plants, make sure you feed the fish a good quality food, and give a dose of seasol every now and again.

thanks i feed the byap feed, i guess as well that a lot of my slow growth has been through winter with sp so they haven't done much hopefully it improves with the extra growth