Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Saterday 9th dec, Other fish tank installed up early go to work a make brackets to support one end of grow bed. cut off legs,remove pavers and start diging bloody hard ground,all sorts of crawleys under pavers but redies loved every thing i threw at them, 5pm now time for a beer.tomorow go to the M10 store and get fittings to join tanks together and clean up the mess,jimbo has had the dickybird .
jim.

Fish tank from different angle . Just checked perlite bed looks to be fine tuned and there are some parsnips sticking there heads up,
jim.

Jim, you seem to be the hydro guru here.

What PH do you run your hydro nutes at (i'm guessing around the 5.5 to 6.0?)

if you have the space and the intrest how about running a side by side hydro / AP trial?

You'll have to wait till your AP is well and trully cycled though.

Then do it again in 12 to 15 months. "Aged" AP systems seem to have hulk like superiority to hydro.

Hi steve i read where joel said if every thing looks and smells good leave well enough alone.I used to monitor and test p/h e/c and change things to the hydro so called experts specs now i use my own brew in the hydro system very realy check p/h and e/c it all seems to be running at 7ph and 2 /ec and it is the best crop i have ever had.the aq system runs at 7.2ph ec 1 the tommies are grown from cuttings [laterals] taken from the hydro tomatoes and are catching the hydro tomies looking great.
Come and visit Jim.

Ps Steve how is the head.I havent realy started yet.
Jim.

heads ok now......... was rough working this morning, had told the boss to book in first job at 10am to be safe........was sick as a dog last night, then fell asleep in my clothes without setting my alarm.

Woke at 7am with no alarm (unheard of!) Thought "gee i feel good, i'm going to ring my clients and reshedule them for earlier! HA! until my feet touched the ground and my head nearly exploded and the toilet called again was a tough day, had the shakes and not being able to keep fluids down until after lunch was really rough on a 37.5C day

checked my ap system this arvo, water temp was 28.5C! mys system is in full sun and i'm glad i have 1000lt (800 effective) will monitor temp closely tomorrow as its 37C again......... I have about 3 meters of black poly supplying the grow bed, and i'm thinking this is heating the water too much from the sun. might rap some Al foil around it tonight or tomorrow morning, as its getting a little too close to 30C for me, and i doubt the water will drop below 26C tonight.

Jim, outstanding that yur hydro runs so well at ph 7 I have a mate of a mate who was told about AP and is RIGHT into his hydro, might be meeting up with him onme weekend to explain the concept of AP as he's interesting in setting up a BIG system........

Stewv my water got to 29.8 today. Isn't it funny how quickly we go from panicking cause it's too cold, to working out how to cool it down!

tell me about it! Winter is still in the back of my mind.............

sounds like you should be thankful that you still have your mind steve

Hi Everybody 2nd fish tank all finished, paving done and connected to other tank and filled with water . Redies are very inquisitive they checked out the 50mm plug and drain instalation for more than 1hour fun to watch.
Jim.

All i need is some yabbies to put in 2nd tank redies cant eat them in there.
jim.

jim, did you say you had redfin? where did you get them from. am interested in some.

Hi steve just have to go approx 1km and catch them good fun.
Regards AQ verses Hydro i will be into that next year have the perfect setup to try, tested AQ water and Hydro neuts to day AQ PH 7.2 EC 1
Hydro PH 7 EC 2.6, next week will start picking the best tommies i have ever had.
jim

This mihgt seem weird, but i've never had much luck with fishing. I don't catch anything, hence it shits me.

If there is a good chance i might catch a few (or more) then i'll make a day trip of it with my soon to be BIL who loves fishing, but doesn't really like to eact fish, but is keen on an AP setup

Oh, and we'll come pick you up first!

Sounds good steve there are other options as well .
jim