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This is the rust I talk about.
Seeing this on mostly one plant, and by the looks, seem to affect more and more of the plant.
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Funny how a Norwegian....
Free cannabis, veggies and fish? Sure! Just pay my €1300 power bill!
Dude.. Why have I not thought of that, brilliant.
Like the instant I read it I was like:"Yeah, when I tested the sunglasses in the store compared to none-polarized ones in the small mirror box, you can easily see the stripes.".
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Thing is tho, I have been told and also read that Ca and Mn is the stuff that you never have any trouble with in a AP system.
That is very useful information, indeed.
A pellet mixture of tomato, basil, and cannabis seeds - should be just the thing for my little fishies!
Heading down to the stores to check what they run over counter, perhaps I need to order it online.
This is awesome. I am catching fish right now to put it mine. You should do the same so you can have meal come harvest time. I also added organic tea and bat gaunu and the fish didn't mind at all. But those look plants look great.
Yeah I found out real quick that fish do not tolerate chemical notes. All natural is easier anyways...so far anyways....
FANtastic! Another aquaponics thread. A warning about the algae eaters, though--if they're Chinese algae eaters they may start going after the goldies, especially the black moor because it's so slow-moving. They will eat the slime off the fishes' bodies, and ultimately will kill them. They can get rather large and aggressive, so you may need to use another fish to serve their duties.Fish:
8 * Goldfish, where as four are Comets and two are Black Moor(they looked so hella cool!)
2 * Algea eaters (cant remember the name, small quick bastards)
2 * Algea eaters - Catfish (the bottomfeeders, suckers of glass)
That appears to be a Ca-. You mentioned egg shells, you can also use crushed coral, dolomite lime, or aragonite as part of the substrate to help add back Ca, however, know that it will also buffer your water pH upward.This is the rust I talk about.
Seeing this on mostly one plant, and by the looks, seem to affect more and more of the plant.
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Perhaps it's because your system is still new, but you should not be getting an readable NH4 or NO2, it should all be being converted to NO3 once you have a fully active biological filter bed established. Also, IIRC, doesn't stutter add some nutrients? I'm not sure what you mean about the utilization of nutrients via foliar vs root delivery, can you elaborate on that, please? Is it a 90% difference, or a 10% difference? I thought it was more related to the size of the molecules than anything else (what can fit through stomata openings).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.
Depends on the source water, plants *must* have Ca. I think you're confusing a Mg- with Mn (magnesium vs manganese). My experience says Mn- is very difficult to achieve, whereas Mg- is very easy to achieve. Totally different from the Ca- that I think your plants are experiencing, though I also see P- and possible Mg-. If you like I can attach some charts that I like to use to help me with Dx.Dude.. Why have I not thought of that, brilliant.
Like the instant I read it I was like:"Yeah, when I tested the sunglasses in the store compared to none-polarized ones in the small mirror box, you can easily see the stripes.".
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Thing is tho, I have been told and also read that Ca and Mn is the stuff that you never have any trouble with in a AP system.
I wonder why they went to the trouble of pelletizing it instead of just feeding it to the fish. Did she happen to mention why?I spoke with a grad student who was helping at a research greenhouse doing work in aquaponics. She said they fed the fish the very dried herbs and veggies they'd grown in the same system the fish lived in! They would process tomatoes, basil and more into pelletized fish food and feed it back to the fish. More leaves went into their biofilter, where they had red wiggler worms to eat them and convert that back into nutrients for the plants.
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