Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Pictures will be on the way another thing to add to my list. This Christmas time is hard my mom and dad always complained about gifts to wrap and etc. But now having to wrap 48 gifts one for each kid i know their pain.

What is it you do over there jtjf???

I am helping to run an orphanage here in Bali. I am the "operations manager" so my job description can be almost anything but basically it means i am in charge. That means the buck stops with me so a lot of resposibilty for me and ym wife. Its a great experience though the holidays makes it a little more stressfull.

Big move for someone your age - kudos my man to both you and your wife

Merry Xmas to you both

Thanks heaps mate and a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and the family.

Ok So Now for some photos first you have the fish Red Tilapia. I also have ten other fish like the blue one (forgot name help would be appreaciated) they were the system starters.

Next we have the soon to be coco peat grow bed and our duckweed tank. I have been putting the tail less in hear for recovery as well.

And then Our Growbeds with the chillis in them. In the back you can see the header tank.

very nice Jonathan! Do your helpers get their hands wet very often?

Yes as there is always heavy lifting and other stuff to do. And of course they all want to help in the eating!!!!!

Hey - coming together nicely for you, well done

Hey all i know is this if it were all to fail atleast i have a way of setting up a good hotwater tank for the house!! But it will not fail

Systems looks good, nice work there and keep up the good work there... we need more people like you and your missus!

Beautiful!

Well have coem across the first major hurtle. We have suicudial fish. They seem to keep raming them selves into the pump. So today I have had to drain the tank and go and get something to put over the inlet so that they stop killing themselves. The other problem is i have a lot of deformed fish now i thikn its the old ones (blue) that are attacking the tilapia as eyes and fins have gone missing as well. If i knew what kind of fish they were i might be able to find out. Any ideas?

No idea, some sort of perch? seems to look like my fish other then the color.

So i wake up this morning to a dead pump. Run out to fix it and while i am clearing debrie i end up cracking the outlet pump. 2 hours till i have to leave and i have water sooting out the bottom of the tank.

So what to do. Catch the fish, pump it out, glue it up real fast, pray hard, put water back in and bring the fish back. Good news all fish survied bad news I seem to have lost about 40 of them over the last week as they were using the pump as a hiding place.

Can't blame them it was a great place once you went in you were never seen again.

Well i should be off of here. Got to go and set off lots of cheap and probably very unsafe fire works . BOOM BOOM Have a good one all of you see you back here in 2007.