Backyard Aquaponics
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Sounds like an awesome day! Congrats to your family.

spent the last few weekends cleaning out all my glass tanks, i gave a couple away so i'm down to 8 tanks, and the pool... i did the 3 smaller ones first (1 10g, and 2 20g), and put a single marmokreb in each, then started the 55's.. found a berried marmokreb to plant in the first tank cleaned, and another berried one to plant in the second 55... then i found baby cray's in one of the 20's!
finished cleaning the last 2 55's, and 1 40 long.. planted the 40 long with glass shrimp, put the cray that just released it's babies in it's own 55, and found another berried marm for the last 55g tank
i'm still thinking about using 1 of the 55's for trying out a different feeder fish.. not sure what yet though, but it's nice to have all 8 tanks cleaned out, and already producing food..
now to clean out the gb's, catch the rest of the fish and get ready for maybe something different (as far as fish type) this fall

A little news with a teaser, nice.

up to 4 tanks with baby crayfish, and a cloud of baby rosy red minnows in one tank, with a male tending eggs in another tank.. time for some pic's
middle tank was the first with baby crayfish, but the bottom tank was only a couple weeks behind

this is the first tank i put a berried marm in, but the 3rd to produce babies

this is right after i cleaned this tank out, now it's full of baby rosy reds

this is the fourth tank that baby crayfish showed up in

top tank had just the marm that had the first hatch of eggs, thought i'd give it some time alone...lol
but now it has a pot with a rosy red garding his eggs.. bottom tank has one cray (for now) and some glass shrimp

from the first hatch of crayfish

couple shots of the biggest marm (so far) - i have 15 or so (marmokrebs) in my single tote system

the baby minnows are not the easiest thing to get pic's of

the glass shrimp are bigger but just as big of a pain to get a decent picture of

eggs on both of these pots, hopefully the male will take care of both, it worked in the first big hatch..

using his head

gotta throw in some growbed mess..kale and behind the asparagus bush

for scale

planted the asparagus in a terrible spot, and it made it hard to take care of

the bed next to that has a big rosemary plant, and extra jade plants that the dil didn't need


i still have to clean out the cress and lettuce bed

i moved the jade plants to where the asparagus was.. now i won't have to mess with an area that is hard to reach

and the asparagus is in an spot that is easy to reach (i'm suprised by how fast the plants send up new shoots, and how fast they grow! already trimming off shoots)

i don't know what i'm going to do with my single tote growbed yet.. it only has some thyme and rosemary, but i need to get some lights

Hi Keith, Nice clean fish tanks .

How difficult was it to move the asparagus and how old was it?

i flooded the bed for a little while prior to pulling them out, it wasn't too bad easing them out, 6 have been in since early spring, 2 were put in last fall
flooded the beds to plant them as well, it was a little rough getting them deep enough, but it was worth the effort

I have one that's been in for about two growing seasons now and I have my doubts about being able to remove it. has about 100 shoots, unfortunately none of them are particularly thick spears but growth is way better than in soil. I wonder if planting deeper would have helped with spear size, I think that might be the case

how deep is your growbed? mine are indoor and not that many spears, but it sounds like yours is a bit bigger than any of mine are