Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

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Dandy are these guys near you?

Thats a good price!

Dipel & seasol mix. Or compost tea as the BT bacteria is naturaly occuring.

First floater today. One silver fingerling went to the big George in the other tank. He looked like the other fish had given him a hard time. Will up the feed. One loss so far is not too bad given the amount thats in the FT and the temp.

I like seeing results...

Found an easier way to go water changes. Hooked up a davey pressure pump to a garden hose and ran the cord to the power board next to the glass tank. Now when I siphon off water I just hit a switch and the water gets pumped in from the pool. Doing water changes with cycled water has a lot less effect on the fish. They will swim in the flow and don't show any signs of stress. The bio filter is holding the readings as Am 0 to .25- Ni to less than 0.5. But I've moved more fish so I expect to be doing small changes for a while over winter. The other problem is how fast the silvers are growing now there water is warmer.

Ph 7.4
Am 0
Ni 0
Na 0

Can't wait for summer.

Little guys in the inside tank.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neBPghCRYM4

Feeding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAEZtjhCaYo

Are they silvers and catfish?

What was the chunk of food they were attacking?

Those plants do look great. I suppose the lack of bugs is partly due to it being the middle of winter down there. My neighbor has a nice dirt garden with alot of bugs, but hey, its middle of summer here.

Silvers and catfish. The food was brine shrimp and the bug less gb's are due to winter and dipel+seasol spray.

Everything is running well. Even managed to dill a drain hole in a standpipe that was leaving one gb filled when it managed to flood and drain and start again before the timer turned off. Was something I noticed when I first put the gb in, just never got round to fixing it. Plants are going well and fish are starting to liven up as the water gets a little warmer.
Have a guy looking for some koi to trial.

The inside tank is running at
Am 0
Ni 0
Na never check it.

Some of the silvers have managed to grow 4 or 5 times there original size over the coldest parts of winter. Will put a 100 ish silvers in next year over winter and see how they go.
I have liked how the bio wheels performed but can't tell how much of the load they were handling. Going to build a bigger one for outside if I can source the material.