Backyard Aquaponics
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Is my radish ready yet


Radish seeds, they will mature eventually !

And finally my last pic and a challenge

count all the garlic/turmeric/galangal shoots

Thanks Charlie!
Lots of green yes, I'm hoping to get some vegies of "substance" going as well...

Looks like cauli to me too and of course i am an expert...

That is possibly one of the ugliest radishes i have ever seen SV! What do you mainly use radishes for? salads?

Getting some good growth mate. How are the fish going?

Thanks.... I think
Yeah thinly sliced in a salad is good. Pretty much anytime you have uncooked greens radish is good too.



The SP are doing really well. Eating lots now.
Still no photos/videos. I'm having trouble with getting enough light.
The biggest SP must be getting close to 200mm.
The goldfish are bigger !

Fed the fish this morning and one of the goldfish was swimming upside down and back to front...
I didn't think that was normal so I decided to slice and dice

http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14212&p=363609#p363608

All the greens are looking good. Don't know what to say about the gold fish.

Its likely your goldfish became constipated and then developed a bacterial gut infection. If you get some frozen baby peas, thaw them and push them out of their skins and feed to the goldfish.
I have heard of epsom salt baths but never tried it.
Pellets are not ideal for goldfish.

I hate possums.
@Sleep sorry for the late reply, but thanks for the info

I grew some celery, it went well and I took a few of the bigger stalks for a soup. Now it is all going rotten, anyone know what is going on here ? Is that what celery does?

My GBs are slowly becoming less and less planted because anything I plant get eaten by the damn possums. I hate possums.

I am thinking of making an enclosure around 2 of the GBs from chicken wire.. It is going to be such an incredible pain in the ass because:

-It will catch leaves and dead vines etc awhich will fill it with debris
-It will be a PITA to access the plants from any of the sides
-I have to come up with some sort of door/access flap which will be a monumental PITA
-I will not be able to propery access plants that need spraying with dipel, and so I will have more caterpiller problems
-It will be generally (and specifically) a PITA
-It will look like shit

I hate possums, they have completely stopped my system from becoming productive.
I think I am going to copy this post to the venting corner (just the cranky part).





PS: My SP are doing great, getting bigger and looking super healthy (I have no idea what I mean by that, I think I'm making it up)

Mate, what about a motion sensored spotlight?

Set nice and close to your GB's.

Maybe a little Cat urine sprinkled??

I had a garden pond full of fish and the only way to save the remaining few was to do the above.

The ate early 30!.

Why not just get a dog or two. Jerry

Trap and kill them. Opossums are easy to trap.

I just read this thread for the first time, and I find myself struck by a few things.


1). I wish I had a dollar for every time I've needed a G-clamp to undo something but haven't realised it.

2). A couple of 20 cent coins work pretty well as a pair of pliers for a sticky U-Bolt on a trailer safety chain. (yeah, that's not actually in this thread, but it's really worth knowing when you're in need, and is the only currency that counts to repay for the G-clamp tip )

3). Is it wrong to think that saving a jar of KOH "just in case" makes perfect sense? Price/worth-less

4). For anyone that reads this thread that doesn't know, SuperVeg also teaches electronics - one on one - for free, just for the asking. Ask him anything

Thanks SuperVeg.

You really have to read every post around here, you never know when a little gem of information will slip you by...

Sorry, sidetrack SV...

Haha, thanks BW

Its true! There is no way I have time to read even a tenth of the posts, I must haves missed many tips and tricks
Sidetrack away, my thread has been neglected