Backyard Aquaponics
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Watch the pH then buddy, will be harder to clean dead fish wash just little itty bitty bag so can track how much of it dissolving also.

How about a picture mate, lets see how them plants doing :]

Will post some pics later in the week. Down in melbourne at the moment, for shopping, (wife and daughters , me 50kg of malted grain hic).

Sounds like everybody be having a good time drive safe man...

Home now and all fish alive and well including little silvers in the indoor tank that I have turned the heater off in. It was sitting on 17C ambient but we dropped the central heating down to 15 while away and the tank went down as well. They are still really active and eating well.
New system is crystal clear now and the plants have started to get away nicely. Will post pics tommorow.
Trout system had a slight ammonia reading but pulled off two buckets of solids and topped up with some fresh rainwater. Trout hitting the 6mm pellets like maniacs. Plants in this system are going crazy. Silver beet has nearly hit the greenhouse roof and the celery glut continues
Strawberries starting to grow really well with some sunnier weather.

Post a picture of this excitement I say!

Silver perch in inside aquarium waiting for the ap system to warm enough for them
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MenceB-nlJY[/youtube]

New system with 9 fat goldfish and plants starting to grow
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwonscnMtzk[/youtube]

Side of the greenhouse with tomatoes growing in selfwatering/wicking tubs

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE6vXazwMa4[/youtube]

Trout system in the other side of the greenhouse with plants and fish both growing well.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE6vXazwMa4[/youtube]

Hope to make a start on fish tank lid tommorow

Well that didnt work

Could you tell me how to imbed a youtube vid like you do in your thread Abdul
I need help

You were on the right track Mantis.... you only need the id between the {youtube} ...{/youtube} codes...

Instead of [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwonscnMtzk[/youtube]...

You should have had... {youtube}vwonscnMtzk{/youtube}....

Squiggly brackets replaced square brackets so that you can see what I mean...

What Rupert said Mantis :] Just copy the bit in front of the 'v=' and that will make it work.

Heres what it will look like










Now am going to go look at these vids right now if I can manage it off this machine.

Seen them! Nice stuff mantis.

Are the trout feeding in this one the same that ones that you put up a video of feeding back in July? Thems some big fish

love the tomatoe wicking beds! Question for you: why are you hanging the tomatoes?

Quachy

Haha, not hanging them Quachy, just holding them up. I train them up ropes not stakes and then along the horizontal ropes when they reach the roof

Thanks for posting them the way i was trying to do Abdul. I was gonna do that this morning but spent the morning changing water in the trout tank due to high ammonia and nitrite readings
Must have been feeding to heavily since going from 1mm to 6mm pellets a week ago

edit: Oh yeah Abdul they are the same trout, and I might have to start eating some very soon if the ammonia wont come down.

Got a good lot of shell grit under each of the gb returns and now ph 6.6.
Since returning from Melbourne the new system has been 0,0,0 with the water readings. I guess 1000L of growbed handles 9 fat goldfish's waste pretty easily.