Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Good stuff Jessy...

hey rupert all this stuff I have grown is ALL struck from seed ....I rather love that aspect even more

Me too...

Yay......the fish are eating again......Temperature in town today is 31 oC.....there goes winter.

Now to be careful with the feed....having just gone for one handful a day for the last 6 weeks.....to 4 handfulls this afternoon

So I have been thinking off adding a second single bed system.

After 2 phone calls to Faye this afternoon, I am stil not sure to go through with it....even though I know I should.

The reason for the second single bed system is to start growing out fingerlings to be transported to the main tank...Fish ..I think should be produced ongoingly....not all in one hit.

Then have that tank souley for quarentine and a purging tank later. Great Idea.....but where to put it and all.

I have been reading about all these people loosing fish to uneaten feed formenting on the bottom of the tank. I have 2 koi that are my clean up crew...and might suggest adding a few gold fish or younge koi to eleviate this from happening

I have added a few pics of them in there younger days last ....and their size now......they are cool...and worth $$$ too at that size

Have you got spare room inside for a tank. My glass tank stays at 20 degrees over winter without heating.

.... jezz Jessy... I hate to see how much you'd feed them... if you were being reckless....

they might of being dieing of starvation....some had stress lines .. and by the look of the koi...they are about to burst ...so go figure....

It was good to see them all at the surface again though going for it

HSM ....turned the pumps on and walked away...nothing unusual.

Looking at the system running from the balcony and noticed water dripping from the broccoli so went down to stop that from happening....

Then got to the sump and the damn thing had emptied all the water from the tank...the cords connection must of been only slightly bumped, so it isn't properly in the socket..and there goes 1500lt of water

Not as if your short of water up that way J

might off been short if I didn't see the HSM in action

Well the Bio Pod is emptied.( not with out a good arguement amongst my gardeners ) It stank to hi heaven

BUT some one eat a Black Peal Pepper........one of the hottest peppers .....so all was not lost

heheheh the kids learnt the hard way not to take hot peppers from the garden

I've heard that the biopods can become pretty rank... is this always the case... or just a matter of maintenance??

I think its both maintanece as well as what you put in it. But I think you should empty and clean it at least once a season. When its hot it reseeds fast and the chooks love what come out!