Tag: Aquaponics
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New aquaponics bed
We’ve finally filled the 4th bed in our aquaponics system! We can segregate the plants a little more now. Theres one bed for Warrigal Greens, one for River Mint, the third is for Kangkong and the last is Sweet Potato (for the delicious leaves). The next goals are to connect up the NFT table (it…
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Ready for production!
The greenhouse aquaponics is ready to go! I’ve got all the times worked out for the bed, flow rates and lighting and the test plants, well, they haven’t died… There have been a couple of small modifications over the last couple of days. The bell siphon on the gravel bed has a small hole drilled…
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Aquaponics build #1
We’re well underway with the aquaponics build. The frame is almost done, though I couldn’t take a pic of it almost finished because it came in too dark too quickly. Jelina just managed to capture me hard at work Like so many good things, my first estimate of squeezing four tubs into the greenhouse was…
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Greenhouse life part 1
Today, we managed to get the greenhouse wrapped. We’re pretty proud of our cable tie and duct tape efforts! The greenhouse is an old shade house frame that we were given, plus two (and in some places, three) layers of plastic sheeting with an air gap between most of it. It measures 3.6m x 1.8m…
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Just a little short!
Things don’t always go to plan! There I was, putting up the plastic for the new greenhouse that will hold the aquaponics systems and I discovered that I measured about 2m short… Back to the hardware store! Bugger.
