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PostPosted: Sep 1st, '15, 01:46 
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Lettuce wilting a bit. Maybe nutrients or perhaps aeration. Will figure it out in time.

Will be getting 5 blue tilapia and 10 tilapia rendalli.


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Date / ph /ammonium / nitrite / nitrate
21-08-2015 / 8 / 2 / 0 / 0
27-08-2015 / 8 / 4 / 2 / 0
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Was a bit lazy and didn't wash the crushed rock.

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3 egg whites and 24hrs later everything settled to the bottom.

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Added some basil, spring onions (in a net pot in the growbed) and some red onions.


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Sudden cold front last week really screwed with the cycling.

Date / ph /ammonium / nitrite / nitrate
01-09-2015 / 7.8 / 0.25 / 5+/ 5
05-09-2015 / 7.8 / 0.25 / 5 / 10
10-09-2015 / 7.8 / 0.25 / 2 / 15

Added 1kg pool salt this afternoon for the fish I'm getting tomorrow.

Not fully cycled yet and will test tomorrow morning again. Hoping the nitrites come down some more.

Water temp this afternoon @ 15:00 was 20.7°C

Seeing some green algae (maybe some brown too) in my tank, so will invest in some reeds to cover the sides from the sun and make it more pleasing to the eye.

The brown might be bio-film or maybe just be me hoping that it's bio-film.

Tilapia should assist with eating some algae.
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No they will eat all algae,bio film and anything else they can find,they even have the ability to syphon it out of the water,particles down to low microns in size.
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Bloody algae.

Covered my tank sides in think plastic and added a bucket filled with filter wool and 500g of ceramic bio media.


Date / ph /ammonium / nitrite / nitrate
12-09-2015 / 8 / 0 / 2 / 80
15-09-2015 / 8 / 0 / 2 / 5
21-09-2015 / 7.8 / 0 / 2 /10


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A week later and the pea soup is nice and clear.

Date / ph /ammonium / nitrite / nitrate

27-09-2015 / 7.8 / 0 / 0 / 80
28-09-2015 / 7.8 / 0 / 0 / 40

Will be connecting the filter to the SLO before the growbeds.

Might get rid of all the filter material inside the filter and change it to a radial filter with a single layer of filter material before the outlet.

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PostPosted: May 4th, '16, 17:03 
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IBC R750 + R250 delivery (Garyth 0793418508 or garythhylton@gmail.com )

Piping (local hardware would do 50mm instead of 40mm if I had to redo it) and bits at least R1000 (
Cnr Malibongwe and Boundary. Plumbing and Irrigation warehouse)

Grow beds (plastic basins) is from westpak in Randpark Ridge. R300

Pump R750 (pump shop in Oxford road Randburg)
HQB-3500 from HENGTAI INTERNATIONAL. 3000 L/h and 3.5m max head.
Pump Shop on Oxford Road - 011-793-7433


Plants and media ( black crusher rock works perfect ) another R500

Api Test kit R650 (Pet shop hillfox in Roodepoort)

Fish tilapia rendalli and Mozambique (Koialami in Midrand) R175

Feed from Aquazoi.co.za
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ACO-318 60l/m Ait compressor - R780

http://www.jungleaquatics.net/online-st ... p/46402727

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F9-16 Leca - R400
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I approve of drinking red wine + aquaponics on one condition...

Is the wine from the best place in the world to be named SA? South Australia?
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