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Fantastic! Great info- and the evidence of trials and troubles are as valuable as pictures of success. Helps a noob like me learn to recognize signs of things going awry in time.
I suspect that a well rounded mineral diet for the plants starts with the same thing for the fish?
What do you use for a biofilter/digester? I spoke with an experienced aquaponics operator locally, and he said that he installed a settling tank upstream of his biofilter and this helped keep his solids down to a manageable level. In his case, the system was heavily biased towards raising fish, as he didn't have a lot of plants growing in the system. I would bet that the higher the plants to fish ratio, the less trouble you'll have with excess solids.
Ya I followed stutts grow via oceangrown I think that's the name. He posted it here in an organic thread too. I'm putting an aquaponic system together in the next month or two. My buddy has 2 in a green house and it blows me away every time
Thanks for joining the show!
I was a "noob" just five months ago, started reading and 3 months ago built The Prototype, lol. Wasn't a looker at all :oops:
The new setup which are in the photos only ran me down 250€ - excl fan, lights and aircon, yes it gets hot in Spain.
The goldfish would eat pretty much any food I give them, but since I have a mix of species right now I feed them a exotic aquarium mix. Tiny pellets.
As for the bio filter, here comes the fun part, no filter needed!
The red wigglers added in the medium lives there and are more then happy to eat the bigger chunks of poo that comes through the tubes. Which then becomes worm poo which coincidentally is AWESOME for the plants :smug:
Haha! Go easy on a fellow noob :bookworm:
I would think that if you have a large scale system, a sump is required to some degree. But my testing shows no signs of ammonia overload, so I do not worry.
The drip system is always on, so far no problem except some algae build up between the pots, but I think this will also adjust itself.
As for the extra nutrient for the plants, which cannot be added through the water stream, here is where the foilar feed comes in handy.
Read about it and some scientific studies show that compare foilar to soil feed you have a 90 - 10 % difference in what is absorbed by the plant. I recon the % is higher with hydro, tho.
Ah-ha!
I don't see how this cannot work with a little bit of tinkering and what not.
Maybe you ad to have look at this:
Free cannabis, veggies and fish, hot damn! :D
As for the insulation in Norway, the temp creeps down to 20F so it is pretty darn good insulated ;)
pH crept down to 5.5 today. Starting to think I have to buy some pH down at this stage.
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