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A few fish for sale or good home
Started by Linda Logan. Last reply by Linda Logan Feb 2, 2019. 1 Reply 0 Likes
I need to shut down my indoor system for a few months. I have 2 mature Shubunkin, 1 albino Hypostomus to clean the aquarium. There is another small fish living in the sump.I live in SE Portland and…Continue
Aquaponics system as filter for swimming pool
Started by John Wilson. Last reply by Wade J Rochelle Jan 25, 2019. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Hi all, we've just purchased a property with a large indoor swimming pool. Around 80,000L with a greenhouse roof and plenty of room around it for grow beds. However, this is far too big for us to…Continue
Not for human consumption!?
Started by Nichelle Hubley. Last reply by Nichelle Hubley Jun 30, 2015. 7 Replies 1 Like
Well, I think I messed up big time. I've been feeding my precious tilapia koi food (I like in a small place and it was all I could get... :( ) for about 2 months and last night I read on the back of…Continue
Help!! Help !!! with new filtration and set-up.
Started by Henrique Miguel. Last reply by Wayne Mcbryde May 14, 2015. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Hi,I have a set up of 2 55 gal blue barrel with Tilapia and guppies separate. I have young ones and they are growing well. Issue of overcrowding and feeding. 1. I would like to use a water…Continue
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Comment by Matt Miskinnis on May 10, 2013 at 7:45am
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I brought in Aphids on some Broccoli I got at a local nursery, and they went onto every plant!
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Comment by Jim Fisk on May 10, 2013 at 7:23am
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And I want to caution (again) that if your AP system is in a GH (greenhouse) then I would never (in my case again) introduce someone else's GH plants into your system. Any plant bugs or diseases will flourish in your system and your choices of remedy are far more restricted than are theirs due to your FISH. Been there, done that.
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Comment by Melissa McCauley on May 10, 2013 at 6:50am
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Cool, thank you. This will be a fun experiment
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AP is aquaponic, so the suggestion is to wash the roots in water from your aquaponic system. Discard the water after washing the roots.
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Sorry to sound uninformed but was is AP water
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Comment by Verna Gross on May 9, 2013 at 8:35pm
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Melissa. Be very careful with plants you don't start from seed yourself. Remove all dirt then soak the roots in a bucket of AP water to clean all traces of dirt off them inspect very closely and plant in your beds. Watch for bugs. They will look bad or a few days then should perk up if not pull them out and check for lack roots or white. You want healthy white roots only. I learned the hard way!
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We bought some Vegetables at lowes already started in 4 inch pots in soil, how do we transfer to aquaponics set up?
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Comment by TCLynx on May 9, 2013 at 5:41pm
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Unless you have an ornamental display aquarium, I wouldn't bother cleaning the sides of the tank.
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Comment by Dukie Dixon on May 9, 2013 at 5:20pm
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Ok so it stays thanks. It just looks gross.
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Dukie,
The brown slime is bio-slime (some could be algae but that is normally green.) You could wipe it off but the truth is the slime is part of your system bio-filtration so wiping it off is not a good thing to do. How bad it would be depends on how much additional filtration your system has.
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