Backyard Aquaponics
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F&F Very sorry to hear about the deaths i have lost 6 redfin to unknown supprises. but the rest are looking great it is the bigest thing that worries me about ap sysems ,being in a hot house you have to put up with all sorts of insects with out spraying with any thing,even pyrethiem will kill fish. hope this helps. that is why i caught redfin and yabbies so i am not much out of pocket if things dont go right.but you never know.
jim.

That sucks man. Looks like you know the cause though. We all have these set-backs and they only make us stronger.

I feel for your loss , this for me highlights the need for all of us to aviod chemical herbicides and pesticides where ever we can. I know you can bounce back...

the following rant in small not to take away from my main msg...

I saw 'Round-up biactive' in m10 the other day, what a bloody joke! It is still 360mg/l glysophate, but just gives people the impression you can spray it anywhere. I also recently had a lecturer at uni (conservation land management) condone spraying weedy aquatic species with chemical, saying that it is widely practiced in DSE for treatment of certian species!

We need a more softly, softly approach, there is no quick fix, and weeds and pests are only that in our minds (they are native to the world - I equate our influence on species distribution to that of birds, the ocean, soil, and inscets carriers, whether it is done deliberatly or not, it is all in ultimate ignorance of the path of chaos).

After yesterdays catastophe started to look at the whole system put seasol in the system to sustain the plants with the seasol and the rain or both the duckweed has nearly all gone cant take a trick the pump supplying the nft packed up this arvo wil clean out one ibc tomorrow and isolate from system then will put 10 goldies in with the 2 that survived have plumed the air stones in properly and mounted the air pump in the power box mounted the dial thermometer on the back will tidy up the system as i go Also have taken watersamples and will call on a few favers to get it tested

go Food&Fish! Everything will come good again!

(this is the cheer squad egging you on to bigger and better things!)

Look at it as a chance to make things bigger and better F&F

Best of luck to you

Bet those beers tasted nice, what bothers me is that I haven't had any major hiccups and the longer it takes to hit the worse its gonna be.

All you can do is take one step at a time

What about the impromtu sex change operation.

bet you weren't expecting that one Les!

Think he might have been. The comment of course is in reference to another thread which is currenly running.

F&F - look forward to hearing the result of the tests.

BTW F&F, the hardest thing is always putting the infrastructure together. You have all this and do not need to do it again. ALthough it is very disappointing, you will be up and going again in no time.

striaght back on the horse! thats the way, I only hope I have the intestinal fortitude to get straight back into it if/when something happens to our system! A lesser bloke would just go "bugger it" and take up golf!

to vb... :violent2: .....

with love.......

F&F What water tests are you going to do?

i know you have ammonia and PH.

I have nitrite nitrate and gh/kh if you require.

Yes tried golf when i retired hit about ten balls and thought who is gona bring them back