diy budget aquaponics simplified plumbing design | Aquaponics Roots in the media

diy budget aquaponics simplified plumbing design

Its quite possible that this is one of those things that everyone does, but its so obvious that nobody mentions it.

Perhaps everything is one of those things, but Id rather hear something twice than never know about it, so Ill say it anyway.

For some time, Ive been harvesting things like lettuce, then spending valuable seconds of my life getting the media out of the roots and retuning it to the grow beds. Clay balls get loose a bit more readily than scoria, but roots seem determined to hang onto whatever media they find themselves in.

Dont get me wrong, this is no way an issue because it really is only a few seconds, but Id rather spend those few irreplaceable seconds doing more important things - eating strawberries, looking at fish, that sort of thing.

But I discovered that if you just snap off the roots and leave them in a bucket, the media falls out all by itself.

Bam! Earth shattering tip right there.

I add an extra step for the worms.

When I pull up a lettuce, the root ball always has a few worms in it. Even in the constant flood grow bed there are worms everywhere. And as much as Im happy to feed my worms to the fish, I like my worms and like it when they live in my growbed rather than die on the ground. So when I snap off the roots, I lay the ball of roots, and media back on the growbed until the next time I wander past. This allows the worms time to get back into the growbed as their root ball home slowly dries.

The next day (or whenever) I drop the root ball into my root ball bucket, where it dries out and leaves the media behind. After the bucket has seen a few root balls added, or when I get around to it, I return the loose media back to the grow bed, and the dried roots and stems to the compost heap. Once in the compost heap, they sit for eternity. We dont use the stuff.



120 Things in 20 years - Wasting compost from the roots caught up in my aquaponics media.

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diy urban aquaponics | The Inspiration

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Sharing some photos of where my 2010 IAPLC tank idea coming from. Its a moss garden photo of Kinkaku-ji (Golden Pavillion) Temple at Kyoto. What you see on the ground is all moss not grass. I was so amaze and decided to create something like that in aquarium. Unfortunately there are similarity with 2009 IAPLC rank #12 and 35 but cant be help. I start this tank before 2009 IAPLC result is out. By the time I have the IAPLC booklet, it is already too late to change.

This year work "Beyond Darkness" happen to win the first price of AQ + ADA Singapore Aquascaping Contest 2010. Although I have to thanks Sim (IAPLC 2009 rank #4) and Yeo (IAPLC 2009 rank #19) for not participating. Otherwise there is no chance of winning. I seen their 2010 work and my jaw just drop.

...and what did I got?
1) Cube Garden 60-P
2) Lily Pipe Outflow P-2
3) New Lily Pipe Inflow V-3
4) Garden mat

Cool huh... my first ADA tank and Lily Pipe... I never even dream of buying those with my own money.

Hopefully I can get better rank this year IAPLC.. *keep my finger cross*... will know the result end of July if not delay

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diy vertical aquaponics system | The Aquatic Scapers International Aquascaping Contest 2010

diy vertical aquaponics system

The Aquatic Scaper International Aquascaping Contest 2010 is now open for submission. Starting date November 1st, 2009. Closing date February 15, 2010. Result will be published April 25th, 2010

Click here to visit the official site

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diy aquaponics pdf murray hallam | Segregating The Fishes

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In the CRAFT set, Tilapias and Jelawat with other fishes are mixed together. This obviously not good since some fish are aggressive and even among the Tilapias, the bigger fish will fight off the smaller ones for territorial right.

The fish has to be segregated and redistribute between the three tanks. 

Water in the tank that I need to catch the fish first is reduce by pumping it to another tank with the growbed filled up and preventing it from flushing.

Once water level has been reduce it will be easier to catch those Tilapias.

All the fishes are place in the center tank (Feeder tank) where the pump is located for later selection.

The bigger Tilapias is placed in the right return tank while the Jelawat and Patin in the left tank. The center tank will be for smaller juvenile tilapia.

While I am at it, why not scoop up few dirt, and and pebbles from the fish tank too since this is the best time to do it.

Transferring water from one tank to another ensures I do not waste any in the process of reducing the water level in the tanks that I want to catch the fish.

All in all it takes me an hour to do the tanks and transferring the fishes to regroup them.

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diy aquaponics supplies | Cooking Deep Fried Aquaponics Garlic Chives Fritters

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Making deep fried Aquaponics Garlic Chives Fritters, it is simple to make and encourage kids to eat vegetable.

You can add bean sprout, grated carrot, spring onion, leak or any herb to add flavoring.

Thanks for watching.

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diy ibc aquaponics system | Trying Out New Pump

diy ibc aquaponics system

I had been using the Astro pump from the start of my Aquaponics hobby. Its time to look for some other brand that may be better suited for my usage. This Sunsun HJ 1100 looks interesting enough for me to give it a try.

The Astro AS1000 rated 14 watt ,1000 liter/hr at 0m and max head is 1 meter.

Rating graph of the AS 1000.

Sunsun HJ 1100 rated 20 watt 900 liter/hr at 0m and max head is 1.5 meter. The Sunsun is cheaper by RM5.00 as compared to the AS1000.

Rating for the HJ 1100

On my gutter growbed system I need more water inflow but try to maintain a pump that is small and relatively low power. So at 20 watt is the max Ill do for two 15 mm siphon at 24 inches water head.

The HJ 1100 comes with various fittings for water outlet coupling and two types of feet.

I use the rubber bung type of feet, no need of the suction type which wont really hold but just makes it difficult if you want to remove the pump from the tank.

Same like the HJ 600 that I purchased for the Ornamental set it has a variable water output by means of this blue dial that in this installation I leave it to the max.

Water inlet to gutter increase as compared to the AS 1000 delivery, this increase in water in-flow makes it necessary to retune the siphon since it had exceeds the normal operating range of a standard installation.

Whether this new pump is better than AS1000, only after a prolong usage will tell. Both pump are cheap at about USD 10.00  each.

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diy aquaponics japan | One More Bite The Dust

diy aquaponics japan

Another Alpha 1000 failed on the newly planted Tomato growbed. It has a hard life anyway running continuously for more than a year for my barrel set.

 Removed the pump and found the rotor shaft broke.

 The shaft has been ground to a needle point and detached from the supporting rubber mount.

 The permanent magnet rotor has deformed probably due to scrubbing the pump inner wall.

 Thats a sharp point

 The rubber mount with broken shaft inside,

Replaced with a spare rotor, no time to change the entire unit. I need to keep an eye on this over the next 2 weeks, may need to replace to a new pump before the festive break next month.

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diy gravity aquaponics | Rosemary Revisited

diy gravity aquaponics

Rosemary in aquaponics is one plant that I need to retry, it didnt do well the last trial. This time Ill do it in the #SilosGrowbed style aquaponics.

Almost two weeks ago I planted few cuttings and checking it today to see whether there are any sign of positive growth.

Pull out the cuttings from the pot, and it does show some root growth.

It looks good as above, the last time I tried Rosemary due to sludge in the growbed their roots does not look that good as in photo below.

Closer look on the cuttings below, sure is promising.

Re-pot the cuttings in one of the Silo tube, to give it more root zone for better growth.

Since I do not have much growbed space left, the Silo tube are place into existing growbed.

Will be few more weeks before I know for sure whether it will grow in this style of planting.

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diy aquaponics tutorial | Betond Darkness Kurayami wo Koete

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The IAPLC 2010 result is finaly out. My tank entry was ranked 218 out of 1819. I cant remember which photo I send to the competition, so the photo above may not be the one I send. I probably took thousand of photos through out the tank life.

Tank specification:

1. Tank size: 90x45x45cm

2. Light: 4x39W T5HO

3. CO2: 8bps injected using inline diffuser

4. Temperature: 25 degree C

5. Filter: Eheim 2217

6. Substrate: ADA Amazonia, fine river sand

7. Fertilizer: EI

Flora:

1. Echinodorus tenellus

2. Eleocharis parvula

3. Eleocharis vivipara

4. Glossostigma elatinoides

5. Microsorum pteropus

6. Taxiphyllum sp (spiky moss)

Fauna:

1. Caridina multidentata (Yamato shrimp)

2. Caridina sp. "Malaya" (Malayan shrimp)

3. Neocaridina heteropoda var. red (Cherry shrimp)

4. Hyphessobrycon megalopterus (Black Phantom tetra)

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diy aquaponics video | The International Aquatic Plant Layout Contest 2010

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The IAPLC 2010 applications had close. Total 1819 participants from 55 countries. Amazingly there are 59 participants from Singapore, new record high.

The number of participants are listed below:
Japan 498
China 234
Malaysia 116
Taiwan 106
India 100
Hong Kong 95
Poland 88
Singapore 59
Brazil 49
Thailand 40
U.S.A. 39
Russia 34
Indonesia 33
Vietnam 33
Spain 30
Italy 28
Greece 18
Ukraine 18
Germany 17
Australia 16
Israel 12
Serbia 12
Hungary 11
United Kingdom 15
France 10
Korea 9
Venezuela 9
Sweden 8
Portugal 7
Turkey 7
Kazakhstan 6
Macau 5
Mexico 5
Philippines 5
Romania 5
Qatar 4
Belarus 3
Bulgaria 3
Canada 3
Croatia 3
Czech Republic 3
Latvia 3
Netherlands 3
Azerbaijan 2
Chile 2
Lithuania 2
Moldova 2
Reunion 2
Finland 1
Ireland 1
Norway 1
Slovakia 1
Slovenia 1
South Africa 1
Switzerland 1

Click here to visit the official site.

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diy aquaponics tank | The Plants Talk seminar by Dennerle

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In my personal opinion, the seminar was disappointing. It is more toward new product launch rather than plant related talk as the title describe. There are no talk about Difference between emmerse and submerse plants, New plant and their requirement, nor Nano plants.

The entire seminar was promoting the Dennerle product and 7 golden rules. However, there are couples of interesting points:

1. Heating cable, my understanding from other hobbyist experiment across the world that there is no significant growth different between with or without heating cable. Heating cable suppose to circulate the water in the substrate as warm water will move up. This might be the reason Dennerle do not dose macro fertilizer.


2. Dennerle system relied heavily on substrate no water column macro fertilizer dosing.


3. Dennerle reduced the blue spectrum from their light bulb. This is the opposite of ADA light bulb. Who is correct?


4. It was mention that plant is taking a break during photo period. Thus Dennerle suggest of siesta (5 ON – 4 OFF – 5 ON). Did plant take a break?


5. Rule of thumb for CO2 injection is (tank volume in liter)/10 = bubble per minute. Just imagine for 3ftx1.5ftx1.5ft tank about 180 liters so according the formula 180/10 = 18 bubble per minutes. There is no way you can get 25 – 30 ppm with this amount of CO2 unless he is talking about big giant bubble.

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diy aquaponics greenhouse | Initial Sketch

diy aquaponics greenhouse

Time for new scape on my long abandon 2ft tank. Above is my simple sketch. The scape is about how tree still survive after the logging. It shows new braches and leaves are growing from cut area. It show how resilient nature is.

At this moment my plants selection are:

1. Cryptocoryne wendtii var. green


2. Echinodorus tenellus


3. Eleocharis parvula (Dwarf hairgrass)


4. Eleocharis vivipara


5. Glossostigma elatinoides


6. Microsorum pteropus (Java fern)


7. Rotala sp green


8. Rotala sp red


9. Vesicularia montagnei (Xmass moss)

Im Curently on the process of gathering material. It may not even materialize if I cannot get the right wood, which is the main focus point. There is not much wood selection at local fish shop in this country

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easy diy aquaponics.com | This Years Balcony Garden attempt!

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Good crop of tomatoes, no aphids since i planted lots of onions and marigolds, Blackberry bush has grown huge and still growing had to use an old clothes drying rack as a growing frame, Installed a new drip irrigation all the way around balcony from my 100liter water tank with the help from my grandson.
Biggest obstacle has been getting supplies to my apartment, carrying bags of growing mix and compost by bus is a pain to say the least, oh well at least its exercise. I am lucky with that i get 6 hours plus of sun on the balcony, but the winds can be a destroyer drying things out and breaking my tomatoes.

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