Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

aren't you supposed to get more than the heads of the fish?

yeah yeah i know. Its just the call them "ekor" which means tail and in canada when we talk about animals we use head so i just translate it over in my head. Hey thats what happens when you have not seen another white person in a while.

sorry JT, just messing with your head!

A friend of ours is home now for a month before heading back to Lombok for work. He's in Oz maybe 2-3 months of the year all up. I think he just comes back to drink some homebrew and see some football.

Hey what about the Bali power blackouts? not the most reliable power grid on earth

sounds like far north queensland

we had an blackout for 3 or 4 hours the other night, but if the tank had been occupied, there was heaps of wind and the aerator would have done its job (all hypothetical at this stage of course

Well actually for us here there is not that many power outages. and i am looking into vuilding an windmill to get some air in the water.

that is not the first time that has been mentioned.... perhaps I should look into it myself - another projectto add to my "gunna do' list

Well you got to figure most reasons the power goes out is because of a strom and a strom means wind. Also rain which will help airate as well.

So today i made a great discovery. People here will give me duck weed by the bagfull for free!!! yeah so now I have about a kilo of duckweed floating around in the "duckweed growth bin".


Now for the update:
About a the day the site went down i bought soem starter fish. Real cheapy's 5 golide for the small tank and 11 in the big bintang tank. The system is going ok minus the leak i sprung about 3 days back and the 5 goldies turning up dead. Other than the leak and some small deaths (cats were happy) all is going good tomorrow the gravel all goes in and then its time for some veg.

jt, looking good - so have you sourced the local labour for gravel washing details yet?

JTJF,

great news about the duckweed, just be mindful if you want to use it as a free feed source for your fish. GD has mentioned previously that it does and EXCELLENT job of stripping heavy metals out of water.............problem is that they endup in the duckweed.

Just know where your duckweed is comming from, thats all.

Hey steve i got them from a nursery and they were growing in pots they said they got them from the rice paddies (where i will get mine from now own). I assume if i eat the rice and don;t die the duckweed should be ok

Yeah the system is up and Going!!! other than springing a leak last night (oops pulled to hard on a connection) the system has been running great.

We got a tonne of rain last night and my half full sytem was overflowing this morning.

Now all i have to do is get some coco peat wash it down real good and i will have all growbeds online.

One question does anyone have a good way to stick plastic to a fiberglassed form. It just wont hold and i have tried everything i can buy here. Next stop ACE hardware the land of dreams here in bali bc it is way to expesive for us ordinary folk to shop at but they speak english so off i go.

As a last resort - I assume Sikaflex would do it (it's a silicon sealant). Muzz loves the stuff.