Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Have you kept a running total of the harvests?

We've kept photo's of harvests, missing a couple of harvest pics ATM got to get them back from Fayes home computer..

There havn't been any fish harvests from these systems yet have there?

Na, silvers in all systems, went in as fingerlings, now weight an average looking one the other day and it was over 200g..

Its a bit difficult to tell from the pictures how things are looking. And if EB mentions anything about it, the net will start screaming of bias, but has anyone seen the results up close that can say what they think is the better system at this stage?

So, any/all opinions from people who have seen it first hand in the last few weeks would be great.

i saw them maybe a week ago.

honestly, there's little difference other than whats already been mentioned about plants appearing to prefer the flood drain over constant flood.
Id be pretty proud of any of the three.

Thought I would put up a few pictures with some closer shots for people..

System 1






System 2






System 3






Comments, (biased of course ) The systems are pretty close at the moment, they each have some plants going well and others a bit behind.. System 2 lost a celery plant early on so it's celery doesn't look quite as great. System 3 had such massive spring onions at the back that the purple cabbages and lettuce at that end of the bed had a much slower start than the other 2 systems.

Might do another short video soon, that's a better way to see things rather than photos.

Water was at 7.4 this morning when I got here, not much of a sign of fish... Might go and try to feed them now and check the water temps...

Yeah, they all looked pretty much the same to me yesterday Joel !

Trial Progress Data & Photos 4-07-2011

Harvest 5-07-2011

Thank you.........For the Trial Progress Data & Photos
I like this experiment and am glad you are sharing this info/results with the rest of us

Thank you

Trial Data & Progress Photos 13-07-2011

You had to harvest so you could uncover your signs, eh

Yeah pretty much.... The photos of the harvest don't really do it justice, we had buckets filled with celery, parsley and thyme, and we were telling customers to help themselves..

People look at you strangely when they are in a shop, and you say to them, "help yourself, take as much as you like, it's free.." Couldn't give away all the giant chives we had about 5-6 weeks back..

That's the kind of dilemma we need to see more of.

I love it.