plants dying in new system

[affanehsan]

Hi,

i recently, about a month ago started my small aquaponics system consisting of a 200 gallon IBC container having 150 tilapia fingerlings. due to non availability of water test kits around i cannot count the ammonia, nitrates and nitrite although PH value is around 7.5. The problem that i am facing is i added plants a week ago but they are dying cannot figure out why as the fish are thriving and have gained size, probably this is because of non cycling of the system as i added fish to tap water after a week of initial installation.

temp is around 30 C and PH is around 7.5

pics are attached

plz help...

[Keith Rowan]

no media, so no biofiltration.. plant roots will get covered with debris and basically suffocate..

put in a media bed

[Carson Miller]

Test kits are available on Amazon Prime here if you're interested.  The test kit will allow you to measure pH, ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate.

[affanehsan]

Keith Rowan said:

no media, so no biofiltration.. plant roots will get covered with debris and basically suffocate..

put in a media bed

hanks keith for your advice. as in pic below i have already added swirl filter and another filter of polyester hence water comes out pretty clean but still plants barely survice for 4 days.

[affanehsan]

Carson Miller said:

Test kits are available on Amazon Prime here if you're interested.  The test kit will allow you to measure pH, ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate.

@Carson:    not sure will amazon deliver products to pakistan..

[Carson Miller]

Apologies - I had thought that AmazonGlobal exported to Pakistan but was mistaken.  Wish I could help, but don't have experience with swirl filters.  Best of luck.

[Vlad Jovanovic]

Try these guys...it's worth a shot...

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