Backyard Aquaponics
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Niiiiice, again

Yum!!! Maybe another month and mine will look like that. I hope.

Ok time for an update. First for some words and then for some photos.

It has been 6 months and I have been through some fish losses and some exceptional vegie growth. The remaining silver perch I put in have grown to a max size of around 200g. The recorded vegie production is as follows, however this is majorly understated as the not all household members remembered to record their use... I know I grew chillis, capsicums and had lettuce every day for weeks but not one recording... hmmm... maybe there was a whiteboard nazi hanging around rubbing things out. Anyway:
Bok Choi - 960g
Basil - 586g
Mizuna - 22g - about 2kg to the chooks
Beans - 444g
lettuce - 35g
English Spinach - 58g
Silverbeet - 642g
Tomatoes - 649g - various varieties
Celery - 1450g
Cucumber - 2769g
Snow Peas - 14g

There is still heaps of produce to harvest, at least another couple of kilos of cucumbers, a fresh batch of beans - multiple varieties, radishes, shit loads of basil, a couple of plants of toms ripening, 4 mature celery plants and so on.

Now for some pictures - first the latest picture of the beds.

The cucumber in the first picture is as big as the air conditioner.... you thought you had a big banana in Qld, wait till you see my cucumber!

Now for some fishies. First you will see a fish I cought on the weekend weighing in at over 200g, didn't measure his length though.

Second you will see some donated Tilapia from Joel. He handed over a mating pair, a funny bugger and 10 relatively small fingerlings. I believe the mating pair was given to him from Jonnie7AU - so thanks to you both.

I believe the female is carrying some eggs ATM and the small fry have at least doubled in size in the last month. They have been put inside in a 3ft and 4ft heated aquarium, which has sent the power bill through the roof.
Any suggestions on how to insulate an aquarium. I have some ideas but would prefer to hear of any experiences people have had.

Great pics fizzy. AP never ceases to amaze me. And yep, that's amassive cucumber ya got there!

One last one of my cucumber - not the biggest, will be harvesting that one soon.

I think we should have a largest cucumber contest.

BTW, I never really like cucumbers until growing these.

No bragging allowed, just remember, It's not the size of your cucumber it's how you slice it.

Seriously though, Nice growth I can only hope my system does as well.


-Stevo

It's funny, we never really ate much cucumber before AP but now we're having half a cuc in the salad each day. Our kids will eat almost anything if we tell them we grew it here (oh the lies we can tell to the kids now )

To address your earlier question, Fizzy. I wrapped a couple layers of bubble wrap around the back and sides of my large grow-out tank for insulation. Lids also help a great deal.

Hey Fizzy, awesome pictures!

Maybe put styrofoam board around three sides of the tank? (that's what I'm planning to do, but then again we have a lot of leftover blueboard!)

I'd recognize that funny blown out mouth anywhere...

Nice work Fizzy..

He got a rock stuck in the growth the other day

Well done Fizzy ...

Glad to see that your mossambiques are growing well! (They are such an amazin fish!)

Your growbeds look vey productive.

I would probably use a polystyrene base under the tanks (growbeds too!)

and perhaps do the sides in bubblewrap .. cos it's very cheap and easier to work with.



Well done!