My pilot project Francois

[Francois Lemmer]

I started messing around with tilapia 2006-2010

2010 - the end of july i had to take  my system down

i am currently trying to get a piece of property to set up a scaled system.

basickly i dont have a system that is running

but i want to share my last 4 years with aquaponics

with members.......

 

[Francois Lemmer]

Hi All
Winter is here and I build a small mini plastic tunnel over the tank.
Not a lot of space inside ….but will help with better water temps….?
A hot box…yesterday with only one side closed temps went to 60 deg Celsius inside.
And today I closed up the other end…temps were 40 inside.
I packed bricks inside down the sides to store some of the heat for night times…?
My fish are all happy and the veggie’s….?
Yust me thinking

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same celery and basil

 

 

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[Francois Lemmer]

Hi All
The plastic tunnel has been a help with temps........
Not much but noticeable…+-2-3 Deg Celsius
It has been cold and we had a lot of rain.
My tank temps went down to 12 deg c
I want to find a cheap and simple? Solution for heating the water…
The fish are happy but very cold so I have not been feeding as much as I want to….
The plants…celery still going…look good
Basil…..growing but I am not to happy with the colour of the leaves
Beside the colour of the basil leaves they are still growing bigger….?
I have a few pepper plants and some lettuce growing
I have in the meantime picked up that I was adding far too much iron to the system
I was adding 13 grams of iron thinking it is 3 grams ….3 or 4 times over the last2-3 months.
Ca (OH)2 I was adding 9 grams and thinking it is 3 grams but I was checking ph so did not matter
I am not sure but I think the basil leaves are showing signs of the over dose of iron
Lesson learned

 

with the plants wind is my biggest chalenge...pepper plant in background blown over

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these lettuce never formed heads big flat leaves....