Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Certainly get some nice peppers down your way Slicer. Managed to get some Big Jim seeds and they have that large nice foliage.

If the're fruiting well not sure its a potassium deficiency, what are your nitrates like at the moment?

Need to get a Nitrate test

Ammonia is lower but I added 60 gallons to the system so... My ammonia is around .5 now.

Nitrites are still as dark as the dark gets

Here is the latest picture of my seedlings.

Keep at it SD, problems are still ahead when the cycle kicks in and all the nitrite is converted to nitrate...more HSM

whats that sneaky sneaky bottle under the left bed?

Steve fox farm nutrients that I usto use in my indoor system. I am moving all my nutrient bottles out to the garage.

That one is Grow Big 1 gallon. Expensive stuff I say :/

Ohh and I converted from using nutrients like that to no nutrients then to Aquaponics on the indoor system. Took about two months to cycle so the fish were in a safe environment.

Do the new barrels still smell of iodine? Might make it hard for the bacteria until it dissipates.

Nah I cleaned them really good no smell of iodine at all.

Ohh and my Ammonia is setting at 0ppm however my nitrites are really high still.

I just tore down my first system and transplanted everything out to the garage system. I am going to do a indoor barrelponic system. This should make it nicer to have flood/drain

My very first post has been edited to contain 2 days of growth in a animated gif. I will be updating it everyday to show growth as it occurs. This should give a good idea of growth speeds on things under light

Patience... It all takes time. Its hard not to get ahead of yourself.

What you mean DT? I am limited right now on what I can do so I am re-engineering the indoor NFT to be Ebb&Flow

Here is a mockup sorta of what I am going to do. And I will also note this is my older system that I started with.

Those racks can hold about 1000lbs so I figure it will be safe as for the old system well everything got transplanted out like I said. I do think that it will be better served having it all transplanted anyway as I figure this will be my herb rack.

Parsley, Oregano, Mint etc will go here. Then with having the fingerlings and mating tanks behind my computer I can keep a eye on them easier

I still have a huge amount of work to do with plumbing on this one but I prefer hard pvc pipe now after working with it in the garage. I had been planning on tearing down the system behind me from the moment I found this site here and wanted to transplant everything elsewhere so it had more room.

are you sure that stand will hold the weight?

Perhaps the stand will hold the weight. I am a little more worried about the wheels and the floor below them. That is a lot of weight transfered to 4 small points.

Its already held that kinda weight

More Pictars!

Indoor system assembled and running water.