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My media has actually settled by 3 cm. Probably when I moved house a few months ago.

Thats a good thing, because now I can add another 20L of scoria

I put 1/2 a cap in last night

With my shortened siphon*, I'm probably running around 115 litres (30 gallons) of water.

How much seasol should I add.


*http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=7290&start=255#p285758

was it enough to tint the water? If so it was probably enough, otherwise you might put in another half cap full.

no tint

I'll add another

I just found this in my glass house. Is this a black soldier fly?



If so I think I just found my next project.

Nice pic..... Love those water droplets showing a tree or something in the background.... Excellent... Ummm What? A fly? Does look like one, but normally they have quite obvious/dark antennae. Perhaps I just can't see them in that pic.

Yeah its our big tree that takes up most of the yard.

It's a pity I didn't get full focus on the front of him. I need an SLR again, I've got an old film one, but I haven't used it since I got a digital happysnap.

The bubbles look like the way documentaries demo bee's eyes.

If I keep taking my camera into the new hot house, I'll need to buy a new one when this one goes mouldy

Which is nice.

Massive water temp swings are not so good for the fish, in a "billabong" or natural enviroment there is a water column where the fish can find a comfortable temperature to sit. Not so in a blue barrel or IBC.

Hmm, that's a good point.

Is 10c-17c massive? it takes around 7 hours to gain 7 deg c

thats a pretty big swing, and i'm sure it will stress the fish to some extent

can anyone remember seeing a doco about a japanese village where they washed their pots and pans by giving them to the koi to play with? There was a link on BYAP somewhere, and I cant for the life of me remember how to find it.

I want to share it with someone and its driving me nuts

just found it

Satoyama (narrated by David Attenborough)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Is0Z1RO ... er&list=UL

as you were

I just luurve the photo of your fly Bullwinkle That may not quite sound correct if you take it out of context though, hope you appreciate the compliment in the way that I meant it

Cool thanks

Is that a BSF or am I paying photographic tribute to a plague carrier or something

I wish I had the camera to get the tree and the fly in focus.

I cropped it, and rotated it a little, and found this years landscape Actually its more of an earth scape. I think that's Europe!



I think the equator is the power line to my shed.

And I just noticed that the fly looks like it's carting around its own venus fly trap on its back!

Some folk will do anything for attention.

Must be a goth fly.

Who needs a death obsession? Just keep moving slowly forwards in thyme.