Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

hey df thanks for ur support ill add some updates today when i get back home, the system has become over grown in the last month but i have many tomatos starting, i was planning on cutting things down and just having an herb garden because the tomato plants are exploding in growth they have almost completely covered the window

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tomatos

Holly lightshades Batman...... can someone turn on the lights

OMG rblaster! your toms are looking awesome!

no problem for the support ! i love how you took a full hydro system, and replaced it with a fish tank! your system will convince that hydro systems can be easily converted to aquaponics! fish is the only real difference.

hey your system is so cool. keep it going!

-df

more of those triffid tomatoes! Well done!

my orchid that i hand water with water from the fish tank has finally bloomed after 6 months

Very nice orchid. I used to have a couple like that, and always had good success with them. After it has blossomed, you may be able to cut the bloom stem back to just above the next joint down. It will then re-bloom from there. It looks like it may be doing that for you already -- second blooming from the same stalk?

thanks. i bought it it had flowers and when they fell off it started to grow more buds but then the gremlins got ahold of it and the buds ended up getting broken off so it started a new shoot, that side stem is dead i just have waited to cut it off cause i don't know alot about them. so since i have had it this would be the 3rd set of flowers if the last buds hadn't gotten broken off

so latley i have been having problems with cogging in my system, the roots from the toms have gotten so big that they fill the tube and stop the water from flowing and it leaks all over the place spilling raw water on the plants below killing them and not to mention flooding my apt. so i am thinking about building another system using flood and drain. im thinking of using a 24" diameter pvc pipe and cutting out section from the top leaving some full sections for strength. using hydroton for media. this way i can play with some auto syphons and hopefully eliminate some of my problem while prolly creating more. either way i get to play with my system more here is a drawing of what i was thinking of doing

wow, always good to expand your systems

Is it easy enough to get end caps for 24" pipe? I've never looked so I don't know.

The local council is doing massive works in our area at the moment, putting water in to the suburb. There are huge piles of black 24" pipe just lying around beside the road! Oh it is so tempting

actually didn't think about that. but i don't know if they even sell 24" pvc at the local hardware store so ill go and see. i would imagine if they sell it they will have some accesories. if not ill have to rig somthing

can you get to a trade plumbers outlet?

prolly the guy next door works for a constuction company so he can prolly help my out. maby i could even persuade him to get me any left over peices from a site