Backyard Aquaponics
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Trout are growing like mushrooms boy can they eat.
Have just made some changes added autopots to A/P system.

I know the smart valve will only open when the reservoir is depleted...

But what stops your reservoir from overflowing Jim.... do you manually open the tubing line supply...

Or have you got it hooked to a timer or is just a slow constant drip feed to the reservoir??

Smart valve only fills reservoir to 30mm then closes
jim.

Ah OK...So the thin poly feed tubes go directly to the smart valves then?... and the "larger" poly tubing is just plumbed into the rest of the water distro?

Was wondering what stopped the reservoir fill.. Doh

What medium are you using in the auto pots? Just soil?

Hi John mainly scorrier [pea gravel[
Jim.

Always love catching up on your constantly evolving system, has been inspiration for day one. do you still have any redfin, or have you moved to silvers and trout.

More redfin 3 weeks ago.
jim.

Same place? get kenny on to it, I am bad at finding the goods

No not the same place,got them from private dam.

The smart valve is pretty smart.


Do keep posting pics of the auto pots. Im interested to see how they do. They were a disaster for hydroponics. Well, they were for me anyway.

Hi D-D what ever, I have been using auto pots for 6 years in hydroponics even the smart valve mark1 was a bit of a dineasor but it worked very well, the mark 2 is the Most simplest and efficient valve i have used no problems ever,i run NFT and auto pots ,the auto pots are a lot more efficent and productive .
Regards Jim.

Plant growth in A/p Autopots after 3 weeks,have stoped using nft and added more autopots.
Jim.

View from other end.
Jim

So your conclusion is that growth in the autopots is better than growth in NFT... using AP water??