Backyard Aquaponics
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Cheeky bugger

i seriously didnt know when i posted on ur thread

i had just come in with my tubes of water when i posted on urs expecting the ites to be trace still....

and then started my post as they cured!

ur system is only young tho and im very jellous of it ahahahah

I was refering to you wanting to buy some fish
I only have 18

18 will do

Here they are

Seen a plarke in a bar yesterday had a huge black pigs arse on it,

Above was written "we give credit"

Underneath was "we do"

I want it!!!!!!!

I take it I'm on a midnight mission to abduct 8 trout and a keg!

Can u have a coopers ready for me??? Hahaha

Looks like I might have to get some feral little gold fish to keep my bacteria alive and building

Goldfish are cheap and do the job nicely. Thats how I cycled my first system

looks like were spiking tonight so no hummonia added, should i wait til i see 0 ammo for 2-3 days before adding again??

or wait for ites to drop off??

Ammo: 0.4
Ites: .1
PH: 7.5ish

had a wamer one last night only dropped to 5.5 Deg over night with a high yesterday of 9 after a -1 and a high today of 11.

Others will know more than me but I would let the ammonia get to 0 then add some more humonia. You will need more ammonia for the bacteria, but not more than the bacteria can handle if possible.
Or wait till 0 ammonia and put in some goldfish. Goldfish worked for me because I had a fish pond to put them in when I got the trout.

Just like feeders? or random goldfish or like big ones???


i'll just give them to the kids school when im done with them

how many did u have??

In my 500L tank I had 10 smallish and 2 bigger ones that I netted out of the pond.
Got the system cycled and then got 20 trout of around 125mm. 2 trout died after a major stuffup but 18 have survived and have been in there for just over 3 months. I had slight ammonia and nitrite spikes after putting in the trout but nothing to panic about, althogh I did back then

Give the ballarat trout farm a call if your thinking of using feeders. You'll find them very competitive.

More Tests today

PH Is Steady at high 7

Ammo seems to have dropped to 0

Nitrite is .25

will still wait to add more hummonia incase of another spike.

Crisis Yesterday!

went out Yesterday morning to find my GB stand wasnt quite upto the job, So i tried to jack it up and put some more legs under it when it all stated to go to shit, and try falling over.

so i bit the bullet and decided that i had to remove the media from my beds and remake the gb stand upto standards.

i cut the old trampo down and put the ends back in, used 2 palletts and screwed them to the trampo with some big decking screws, made a middle leg to hold the middle up and braced the whole thing with a ratchet strap, this will be replaced with some steel diag' braces when i can get the welder out here from work to weld it in.

i also changed the position as the neighbor cleared some trees and opened up some more sun for me and the ground has much more rigitiy about it there.

my Drains now run over 2mt each to the sump and i had to fiddle to get them running but i found if i remove the elbow on the end it works fine every time so far

all flow is running fine, i run out of plumbing supplies so ive just improvised until i get to the HW Shop to get some more 40mm PVC, but all is running ok now, iv also been able to turn up the flow as my siphons aren't as fussy

ok ok enought chatter heres the photos

Grow Beds Removed



Plants Just Chilling in some media and water



New GB Stand in The Making



In Place




Drains into my Sump



few shots of plants

Crisis averted in the knick of time...