11/27/13 Ask a' s Aquaponics: March 2012 ask a-aquaponi cs.bl ogspot. com/ 2012 03_01 archi ve.ht ml 1/ 6 aska-aquaponics.blogspot.com http:/ /aska-aquaponics.blogs pot.com/2012_03_01_archive.html Nice water effect! Before I plant them into the grow bed, I'll have to wash their roots first. I can see the Mint anticipating its new found territory. Aska's Aquaponics A heavy down pour tw o days ag o had increased the water level tr emendously. On Tuesday mornin g, I found that the bottom part of the outlet pipe had fallen off into the fish tank. Surprisingly, the siphon still works! I will leave it as it is for now since it's providing more aeration than before. The shortened siphon outlet also slow s down the outgoing flow since a shorter downward pipe means less water within the outlet pipe to contribute to the siphoning action b y gravity. Today I went to the pasar tani (farmer's market) near my house to buy some vegetables to grow in my system . Although my setup is new, most of the fish tank water as well as the expanded clay was reused from from the old system. There is still plenty of nitrates in the water as I didn't plant much in my old system. So in order to remove those excess nitrates, I will plant Kang Kong (Water Convolvulus), a Pegaga-like plant (is it Pegaga? can anyone confirm?), and the famous aquaponics mons ter - The Mint... Kang Kong and the Pegaga-like plant will probably do well since they are aqua tic plants. Thanks forreading! Will post anotherupdate soon... Aftercountless failures experienced from my previous setup, i decided to make a new one... The problem with my previous setup is
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Before I plant them into the grow bed, I'll have to wash their roots first. I can see the Mint anticipating its new found territory.
Aska's Aquaponics
A heavy down pour two days ago had increased the water level tremendously. On Tuesday morning, I found
that the bottom part of the outlet pipe had fallen off into the fish tank. Surprisingly, the siphon still works! I will
leave it as it is for now since it's providing more aeration than before. The shortened siphon outlet also slowsdown the outgoing flow since a shorter downward pipe means less water within the outlet pipe to contribute to
the siphoning action by gravity.
Today I went to the pasar tani (farmer's market)
near my house to buy some vegetables to grow in
my system. Although my setup is new, most of the
fish tank water as well as the expanded clay was
reused from from the old system. There is still
plenty of nitrates in the water as I didn't plant
much in my old system. So in order to removethose excess nitrates, I will plant Kang Kong
(Water Convolvulus), a Pegaga-like plant (is it
Pegaga? can anyone confirm?), and the famous
aquaponics monster - The Mint... Kang Kong and
the Pegaga-like plant will probably do well since
they are aquatic plants.
Thanks for
reading!
Will post
another
update
soon...
After
countless
failures
experienced from my previous setup, i decided to make a new one... The problem with my previous setup is
Pegaga-like plant was planted in bunches of 4 - 5 plants with their roots still intact. For the Mint, I removed their roots and bottom leaves
before inserting them into the media. Letting them grow new roots would be better than risking their old conditioned for soil roots to rot. I
also had sprinkled some Tomato, Chil li and Kai lan seeds 3 days ago. I'll be expecting them to germinate i n a few days time. I've al so
inserted 6 Barbados Cherry seeds in to the growbed - "sigh..." - but I also read that they take 6 to 12 months minimum to germinate and
only 5% will be successful.
I threw half of the kangkong into the guppy tank. Some mint and pegaga were also thrown in together. The kangkong will root in the water
and provide hiding places for guppy fries.
that it was placed under a shade thus receiving very little sunlight and the pump was weak causing the sipho
to fail frequently when it gets too clogged up... Due to its small fish tank size, water temperature and pH levelsfluctuates a lot causing massive guppy deaths many times... Aeration wasn't good either...
Here's a pic of my first setup:
And now, presenting my second aquaponics setup! This time it's bigger and better...!
Here's some pics:
The setup was based on Affnan's Tilapia Breeding Homekit. The idea of using slotted angle iron as growbed
stand was inspired from Mahfudz' aquaponics and En. Ahmad Hayan Radzi setup.
The pic above shows the growbed. The two small plants are seedlings of a nearby tree. I've also inserted a
curry plant cutting there. Its difficult to root curry plant cuttings, their leaflets turn black if it stays wet for too