Backyard Aquaponics
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Awesome, you can never have too much air with trout I'm told.

Just popped up the road and used my cousins test kit as I only have a salt water test kit.

The kit is old (18 months) but hopefully is testing accurately.

pH looks to be 8
Ammonia 0.5
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 0

Besides patience does is there anything I could do?

Water is pumping 24x7 and the growbeds are currently set to be constant flood. Approximately 2100 liters of air is being delivered per hour.

I have only feed lightly once (Saturday) and will hold off before feeding again.

Nup, just waiting and light feeding

I should read my post thoroughly before hitting submit. Posting via an iPhone doesn't help.

Tank temp is 24 at the top. Need to figure out how to test the water temp at the bottom - bit hard with a floating thermometer.

Go to B...they have the cheap indoor/outdoor thermometers, weight the outdoor lead and chuck it in the tank

Unless your tank is over 2 mtrs deep... don't worry about measuring the temp...

I'm sure there's a reason for that......but here goes, why not?

Because any difference in temperature is going to be minimal... if measureable....

Fair call...now that I think about it plus arbe's tank is above ground so not much variation anyway

You want to come help me dig a hole to bury it Gnash?

The only reason why our tank is half-buried is because otherwise the grow bed would be too high (because it has to be above the FT). I understand that in general, the FT temperature is more dependent on the temperature of the media in the grow bed, unless pumping is limited when the grow bed is too hot or cold.

Nice thread Arbe
regards
matt

arbe it all seems to b comming together now the end is in sight now
the hard part for you now is leaveing it alone and let it do its own thing
if your not going away for the long weekend i'd like to come over and
have a look

More than welcome RB. Will send you a PM.

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