Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Yea, I will definitley use that next time.
Thanks 100 for tip

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Can you not update what you have? you have the holes already.

Maybe, it'll be a challenge to get off the silicone I put on there already. I probably won't get the time before I sell it.
Been real busy since yesterday with a family crisis.



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Kalanchoe. I thought it needed dry dirt with occasional watering. Was wrong.

Some kinda aphid eating bug. A bunch of them move in at night cause the light.

Some kinda leave burn here



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I just made an experimental copper supplement for my dirt garden. It works and going to supplement it into the fish food. I found a piece of copper ore in my yard. I grinded off the surface to form a nice green oxide powder then I dissolved in water and watered my beans with it. I can already see that they have copper deficiency so if this fixes it then this will be the route I go for now on.


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I know you want to sell this off but do you want to stick another maybe friend with it leaking. The silicone will just pull off in one piece. If not gently cut it off. Or sell it leaking.

I sealed the leak with aquarium grade silicone already, if it doesn't leak for a week I call it fixed.

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With the screw together connectors you can yank on them all day and they never leak. Keep them in mind for your next build. Every AP setup I see here has them.

There are lotsa APers who are well past the dinner plate. This experimental system I made is to prove to myself that I mostly understand the concept of aquaponics. And perhaps somewhat to show my family once again that I'm the good egg. I know this is unrelated but I'm the only person in my family with a medal.
Arizona State high school F.I.R.S.T. Robotics competition, 2nd place on team 498 Cobra Commanders! And still they doubt me.

Anyways, the experiment is going well. The water is less yellow and smells less like a pond everyday. One wind blasted pinto plant that I transplanted into the GB yesterday looked like it was gonna die but spang back to life overnight.


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One thing I have learned so far is that some people can grow a garden on a head of a pin while others would kill a mature house plant. It will be up to your own work to see which group you fit in. So far I have one thumb in both. Mostly in the killing department.

One nice thing about AP is the ability to rotate more crops each year. I know you mentioned DWC and if you try that it has its own learning curve. I would like to be able to someday graze on the AP unit all year round. With enough of a variety to keep it from being the same old stuff every day. With each new type of plant comes another learning curve.

Maybe it is time for you to sell test 1 and start test 2 to jump on that learning curve to figure it all out. It will take time to get used to DWC and all of its perks and problems.

Congrads on the metal. Doubt is a part of life I think all APers need to live with and our other halves can be the worst of it. Losing support right in the nest is the hardest one to beat. I finally got some doubt removed when all the seeds sprouted and lost it again when I transplanted them and lost all of them. And I waited for the 3rd set of leaves. All leafy greens are giving me problems yet the vine plants are loving AP. So this summer it will only be pumpkin and tomatoes on the plate and maybe a few small pan fried minnows if they taste good.

On the average ROI of 3 to 4 years it is taken in account of many failures, even whole crops of plants and fish. If it was really that easy then the first 6 months for everyone would be full of crops and fish and a 6 month ROI.

On your 200 dollar trial, have you taken out 200+ dollars of food yet? Ok, it is great that you proved you can get stuff to grow. Even I have done that. But until you can get that 200+ on the plate it is only a test of concept and not proof. I am working on many of these tests of concepts and they are leading the way to test 4 which will either be a seed to plate AP or a failure. I also want to rotate crops thru it so I have something ready all the time to graze on. I don't want an AP that locks me out of eating for 4 months at a time. I want food all the time or to me it would be a waste of time and money and we would end up buying greens again.

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no pond smell whatsoever, new leaves are yellowish.
I think I need more fish.

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I have been adding a bit of steeped egg shell, ash and rice water to the blend and the plants are loving it. and more yellow leaves, even inside. Applied to water as a fert and put on the plants base. Maybe 5% of each or less, mixed first with the same FT water. Will add steeped seaweed next in a test. Looking for 8-8-8

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Lithop


replacing ft with this


wrapped in starwars tape.







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