Backyard Aquaponics
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wow ruperto, you have really done a lot of reasearch for me, thank you!

although i have some knowledge of trout from my father's friend who grows trouts, but he uses a local cold stream to freshen and cool his system, and cleaning every 6 months or so.

now food&fish gave me some courage in trouts again, since he said he had problems with trout at 28°C, 25 was just fine

i've also seen a lot of fish growers throughout slovenia, we have quite a history in aquaculture yes, i've seen remains of fish growing utilities when i was a little boy, climbing through our local streams.

i think i'm gonna give it a go, as long as i'm confident everything goes towards success

i've already ordered 50 trouts at 4 cm size, gonna get them in the middle of may! there's more problem in locating tilapia and warmwater fish here, seen quite a few pages offering a few coldwater species.

"google" is your friend Molj...

has been my friend for a long long time, but my first friend was yahoo.com, before the google

as promised i took two photos of my aquarium, you be the judge!

chilli is crazy!


did some work on the big one too

have added 10 fish, 4 goldies and 6 iforgotwhat:) good photoshop action huh? hehe

some closer looks at the fish


i also added 3 tomato plant, chilli and others are still waiting for some more nutrients in the water


it will be interesting to see what will happen once i add those 50 trout in a few weeks, no one will be safe once the trout outgrow them

can't wait to see this system in full bloom!

coming together really nicely. Well done

Yes - very nice molj

for all of ya

i cooked with my first AP chilli! first i tried to bite in and it wasn't hot, then i tried again and i burned my mouth

the chilli was as tastefull and as hot as it was from my soil pot chilli plant last year,and this was grown under 54W of fluoros, not sun

so far so good

hello everybody!

i went to visit my trout man Hinko, and he gave me about 50-80 trout, for free, he didn't want the money, he just wants to see how my sys. works

he has beautiful trouts, really beautiful, he has two springs flowing hard into his fish farm, the water is pure as it can be, EC was like 0.2 and pH 7, almost rainwater and coooold(11°C), but his trout are the best i've ever tasted!
the transportation was no problem, i've drived them in 20L of water with a 50 L/h water pump in it, no losses
anyway, he's a very nice man, wish i'll be able to repay him somehow(have an idea hehe
here's the photo shoot, i think the tomatoes have grown a little bit and i've also added a plant called Pulmonaria officinalis, which shows the pH scale on her flowers, coloring them from blue to red according to the soil's pH---> wating for her to re-bloom as i've ripped her directly out of the forrest:)



i also added some NH4(50 ml in two days) to bring the ph to a more plant-friendly value and gave the sys. some nitrogen that is needed to start cycling

have a good day and let's hope my trout do fine in my warmer water, no losses so far

What sort of trout are they Molj..... and thank your trout man for his generosity on behalf of all APer's.....

Get your system going and growing and then show him.... reckon he'll become an instant convert.....

Keep a close eye on your water tests.... and don't feed or at least don't over feed your trout until your systems well and truely cycled....

Post your test results here daily.... everyone will gladly guide you...

i sure will ruperto, he'll be happy to hear it!

this is the rainbow trout
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Onco ... mykiss.jpg

thanks ruperto

yoummie:)

I love Trout - they much cuter than cats

Awesome fish! Very beautiful, and I love the taste of trout. I don't think I could keep the water in my set-up cool enough for them, though.

If you live here JP:

http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KILG/2007/10/19/CustomHistory.html?dayend=19&monthend=3&yearend=2008&req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA

You would have great trout growing season?

LOL need an edit button, google gave me the wrong place