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your system issues are a reality check for me, a roller coaster indeed; beautiful flora while the fauna side suffers. Achieving balance in these systems I realize can be truly heart wrenching.
Brian

Thanks for the places, I'll keep an eye out.

And then a few more. But then I got sleepy. And then I had an idea!

But I have no idea what it was.

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Great system... I'm envious.. and wonder what the bride said when she came home to such a sight..
I had MAJOR issues with initial acceptance, but not she-who-must-be-obeyed, is making the expansion suggestions..
How much easier it would have been to have done it and then display the results..

Read comments about Melafix in the FT.... just wondering on the safety of such a product on consumption fish and also on vegies...??

Noted an early comment about the rain-water-tank and Zinc, and as i think you suggest that it's metal, then hopefully it might be colorbond, rather than galvanized...

I have yabbies with fish and generally find no issue... the fish never seem to get caught, but then i don't have slow moving goldies ...

PS.. Healing-Garden.... I think all AP systems are healing... there is just so much contentment in keeping it all working..

PPS... re. Community AP garden... great idea, but what a concern for having others using chemicals etc, without thinking...or knowing..
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upside-down fish, too sad

Hi Sejin ((re Whatever it is that is eating my vegies have eaten casicum and cucumber that started to grow. 2012))
I passed your place every day for 5 years while the houses were being built . Next door to the Torrens river I would lay bets that you're problem was possible Opossums' one or more. I use to live in Golden Grove now in Nairne in the hills and have had half of my Rockmelons eaten by Opossums

we dont have opossums in aus, just normal possums, but its more likely to be rats if your around the torrens. place is full of em

Hi Mark and Dan,

Whether possom or rat, I suspect it is of a reasonable size, say bigger than 20 cm.
Once I went out to garden after midnight, and heard some animal running away. The sound was of almost like a cat running away. I have many mouse poison traps set up here and there and this animal eat it and survive. So, I can only conclude that its size is not small like mouse. Yes, being able eat a half of small melon (15 cm diameter) means it is a big rat of small possom, in size. I still have never seen it. Poisons traps were untouched for last 2-3 weeks, and I wonder what happened.

Hi BuiDoi,

Thanks for visiting my site.
It seems you have read most of my past pages.
About "healing garden", I had this idea even before learning about aquaponics.
It is true that all gardening and/or aquaponics could be healing as a result.
What I had in mind is healing even for visitors.
Ethisiasts tend to be a little bit "abnormal": to them anything can be beautiful!!
That is not good for a healing garden that I have in mind.
So, I try to make the place physically as beautiful as I can.
Of course, it has to be productive too.

Sejin

PS I got to visit your site.
Your system looks like an engineer's system.
I am retireing soon too: July this year.

Nice thread, i dono how i missed it all these days. Keep going. Also, Sorry for your loss. I like your tank clear water and the duckweed tank .

Oh! I guess I should have left the "O" off

A possum (plural form: possums) is any of about 70 small- to medium-sized arboreal marsupial species native to Australia, New Guinea, and Sulawesi (and introduced to New Zealand and China). The name derives from their resemblance to the opossums of the Americas (the name is from Algonquian wapathemwa, not Greek or Latin, so the plural is possums, not possa).

How silly of me Possums as Dame Edna would say

Lovely system - looks like a very peaceful place to be. Hope all goes well with your fish.

It's been more than a year since I visited my BA site. I changed my phone and had forgotten my password. I have not made any expansion that I originally planned, but my system has matured with time. Will upload some pics.


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2016 update
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The basis of my system is 500x90x90 cm pond.
The pond is half underground.
After trying various fish, I settled on goldfish alone.
My growbeds are multilayered.
Some parts of growbeds are used for ornamental plants.
This system is to be expanded when I have more time.
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