Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Yeah, bloody good job Jessy... and a great reward for your determination...

That Tatsoi looks interesting... how do you use it... cooked, salads??

So nice as always Jessy. The plants are monsters!

I've had good luck with Tatsoi in both the AP and dirt gardens. It is great either way, cooked in stir frys or raw in salads.

Your veggies are looking great!!!!!!

mmmmmn....I need more AP garden ....Oh well....might have to create something an soonish

AHHH SPIDER MITES

I got bugs....these guys are really cruel....just sucking the goodness right out of the plant....going to make up a spray bottle of dipple, seasole and garlic pesticide and attempt to kill them of....It's like " Revenge of the Bug "

And the stand pipe holes are blocked up once again with root matter, so one table has had crap water sitting in it for probably a while...nitrite spike here we come

I have become complacent ....and now I am going to pay with poor waterquality and a pest problem

Don't mix to many things together in the one bottle to spray on the plants, Mitch tried that at work and we ended up with bad burning on the leaves.. I think it was dipel and seasol he mixed together...

Aaaah Mitch

HSM Pump failure...fish deaths up to 5 so far...Had a spare pump, so changed that one over...now just hoping the main tank pump will kick back in once it has cooled down

thank goodness for spare spares

might not be out the shit yet....

Oops
Best of luck with that

Hum, one more reason everyone should have an air pump going!
good luck with things!

I run two air pumps maybe was enough to save the remainding fish....this is the first dead lot of Barra out of the tank. Maybe 15 or 20 more on their way out struggling for life. The heavest was 875 g.

I suppose the question then is, what size air pumps? Little aquarium pumps don't really cut it except for in little aquarium. I was told that I needed 1 cubic foot of air per minute for 400 gallons of fish tank for when other forms of aeration fail (so I have an air pump that can deliver 2 cfm of air at 2 psi hooked to my battery backup but it also runs all the time since I noticed how much cleaner the tank stays with lots of extra air and the fish eat more too. I'm not quite sure how to translate that into metric.

How long was the water pump not working do you know? Was it just overnight?

Sorry about the losses, those look like some nice big fish.

sorry, I don't know the air pump question...I use 2 both supplied from BYAP, because in the summer months one isn't enough for up here, due to the water temps getting to 36oc and dissolved oxygen being at a low level.