Backyard Aquaponics
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Thank you Dan.
Currently have - strawberries, cos lettuce, bok choy, rocket, capsicum, climbing beans, broad beans, nasturtiums, parsley, chives. Today planted 3 chilies and 2 spinach.

I have six fish. At a guess, they collectively weigh about 5 to 6 kg. They certainly produce more than enough output.

Actually was interested in the pipe in the Tank...

but I do like your Balance pipe setup..

Juergen

some free scoria going begging c/o gumtree

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System looks awesome Dunder. Your climbing bean looks like it has gone mad.

Thanks rsevs3.

I have not added anything to the water. No Seasol, nothing. Just feed the goldfish home made gel food, a few dog pellets, duck weed, lettuce and compost worms.
Cos lettuce is green but rocket and bock choy is quite yellow. So planting more Cos and not planting any more of anything that is not looking well, for now. System is only young.

Hi Dunder, what is your gel made of?

Im setting up a little AP system for my office at work and I am wondering what to feed the goldies - or do they eat floating pellets?

thanks in advance

taken from my system thread (i knew id asked him the same question somewhere)

thanks Dan

The gel food -
500 ml water
2 TBS heaped, wheatgerm
3 TBS paprika
250 gm red meat - blanched - ox heart is good and cheap
200 gm lettuce/carrots/capsicum/seaweed/parsley/broccoli/spinach..... - blanched
100 gm peas - cooked
5 ml fish oil
1 multivitamin tablet

use minimal amount of your 500 ml water to -

chop your meat and stick in water that has boiled but no longer boiling, and leave for a while.
chop up your lettuce stuff and blanche.
cook your peas
grind the tablet to powder

I use an old fashion meat grinder, the one you bolt down to the bench-top. But if you're not a tight-arse like me, use a food processor.

Chuck everything in the processor/grinder.

Use the left over water. Boil it. Let it cool off a bit. Chuck 60 gm of gelatin in and dilute, stir with spoon.

Mix this with the rest. Mix well, by hand. place contents in ice cube trays and allow to set, in fridge. You then freeze it and keep a bit for each day.

As my goldfish are huge, and I had to put my last dog to sleep last Christmas, I also feed them the dog biscuits I have. It does not contain any artificial colour of flavour and is a complete dog food. They love it.

I hope this helps. There loads of recipes on the Net.

how are these guys goin? i used to have a couple in my tropical fish tank but they died after not very long.

Hi Dan
They are from the Murray so are for cold water.
Some info here -
http://www.murrayusers.sa.gov.au/RMUUC-OldVersion/animals_of_mdb.htm

They are doing well and I have about 6 more now. Helps keep the water clean and they live a long time.

A couple of photos for this month's update

Aquaponics - It works!

wow looking amazing!!

i bet your neither the first, or will be the last to think that