Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Yeah It would probably over time, put im sure it doesnt need too,

its only just under the surface and once i get too transplanting im sure i'll be able to get it out and get rid of most of it.

Wife got me onto some 100% Hemp Webbing thinking about using this next time going to get some and see what its like.

cleaned out the filters today and re instated them, VERY Dirty indeed, water has cleared up heaps and i can see the fingerlings sccoting around very quick they are.... caught a few feeding on some algea but scared them off when i threw in some feed. left the lid off the tank so they get used of light, might just put shadecloth over it so they have light

thinking about knocking up a Filter that can be placed inline on my Tank Outlet, so if things dirty up a bit i can just put it inline as needed (i find that stirring up media when planting and moving plants and getting roots out really stirs things up) by using a 25l drum and a flowerpot full of this wool stuff. so it will allow for high flow but also clean well.

all good on the m3tal front... now to brace for rain

just went out with torch to try catch a peed at the perch, i could only find 3-4... very frustrating.... so i thry a tsp of food in and shined the torch back in and now i wonder if iv got 80-90 they are hungry little fishes, and dont seem torch shy when theres food on hand.

Corn ears are going mental on my 2 ft corn plants LOL smallest damn corn plants iv seen, grown 8-10 footers in dirt hahahah

anyone want cherry tomatoes?? im going to have Bazillions of them had 9 plants, then stiked 4 cuttings off the plants that i took off the bottoms of them so now 13 plants plus 10 roma plants hahahahaha

flowers on zuchinni no fruit yet but iv been polenating and the beans are same story.....got about 5-6 white/greenish butterflys in there that have just come out of cacoons that i found so im leaving them in there to pollenate hopefully plus my girs love them its there own butterfly house....

my mate found a Native bee nest in his yard.... he was going to get rid of it but i told him to leave it alone i wana pinch it but i dont wana upset nature. Thinking about setting up a Hive for some bees and allowing them to venture into the shadehouse and outside it as well.

A hive of native bees would be great. I get bees around the garden but not all the time and I reckon a hive in your backyard would help with pollination heaps.

I have a bee hive and they are going great guns! I reakon if you have the native bees (they have no sting, or at least a very very very very very very small one), then all the better.

those "white greenish" butterflies could be cabbage butterflies.. i had a few hatch out in the basement, you want to get rid of them! (my fish loved them, the cats not so much, they only caught one)

tied up all the tomatoes today, big job it was

also cleared out the cauli and brocoli, they were just too old and going to seed... got plently of seedlings sprouting from the big batch i planted so hope to see them work better in the bed, at least iv got some space for em now

rabbit got a good feed of Brocoli bit n pieces

Been Noticing a few BSF hanging around again, so im thinking about making a harvester, bin out the front was full of maggots the other day i was tempted to grab them n freeze

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good to hear its all going well

We have bees coming from miles for the water in our system, especially on hot days..

Guess you guys aren't having the hot dry weather we're having though...

Nope, no hot and dry here yet anywhere on the east side. Water laying everywhere around us and mozzies the size of baby sparrows

yep wet here too, this time last year my dogs water bucket evaportated in one day, its now floating in a puddle and overflowing

and yeah the mozzies are HUGE!

Very Humid when it gets hot and even then it hasnt got over 30 yet this summer

FT was 14c Last night on the 11 of December HAHAHAAH

Yeah my 2000L fish tank got down to 15C last night. Weird weather

pump is looking a bit sick

got another barrel for free today so im going to incorp it into the system and locate it under the Fishtank, so it doesnt have to pump so far, hope to get a little longer out of it yet!

Always good to have a backup pump

i know iv been meaning to get to B to Buy another one the same, cant beat the Aquapro, and i dont see the need for a laguana as iv still got more flow with this yet (if i take the venturi out it flows much faster) i'm thinking about another AP3000 and maybe a smaller one to just be a pure venturi/whirlpooler

making another system soon also to house some more fingerlings....