Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

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The chilling plant had a aphid infestation so I trimmed it right back
First white habanero forming


I must have pulled atleast 100 slugs if the system in the last 2 nights :angry: bloody things

Weighted te trout, 30g each so they have doubled in weight in a week

Beer traps work a treat on slugs. We use 90mm stormpipe caps turned upside down, add some beer, watch the slugs come from miles around and drown themselves...

Yep pit a few of those down too, they all come up for the beer, I pull them off and then let the traps do their thing while I sleep

so what are you doing with all those slugs your harvesting?

Im sure I heard somewhere once that if you puree slugs or snails then spray it onto your plants its one of the best deterrents you can get... I think thats what it was anyway... I know you can do it with caterpillars

Otherwise you could always do a 'River Cottage' meal and cook the slugs after marinating...
waste not want not and all that ... apparently they arent too bad - taste like snail

actually your already half way there... theyre marinated in beer

Eereeeeewwwww hehe
The non-boozed slugs went into the ft

Others went to the local birds

what! you gave the boozy slugs to the birds? Did they fly away slightly crooked and looking happy?

Haha not exactly I chucked en onto the garden and they picked them out. Bird songs were Definately louder though

I am imagining seaguls doing figure eights over freos place squawking crazily

made me think of this

well despite it being the easter long weekend my supervisor has decided that tuesday the 26th is a grand day for my lit review and project poster to be due, so i am busy studying all weekend which sucks.'

anyway, naturally studying = procrastination, and ive been doing my fair share
made a video of the trout, tested my water (ammo @ 0.25 will watch maybe there is a fish stuck somewhere but i think i have been overfeeding )

and made a AP tea from sme memory herb (cant remember what its called ) and mint
here is the vid. the end bit is me looking for any yabbies in the IBC drain

How many you god (sorry if i havnt read down further ) and what ratio u feeding.

So let me get this straight, you get the snails drunk!!! Then pull them off!!! Your one sick puppy.

well i do what i can for the environent

Jamey - 30 fish total, im feeding them about 10-15%, waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy to much. gonna cut down to 3-5% from now on, i guess i just got excited

would a someone who knows what they are doinng (mods) have a look at my pics for me? they seem to have crashed? they are uploaded via tapatalk so maybe ive lost them