A Community and Forum For Aquaponic Gardeners

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Helping each other to learn and grow big nutritious plants and fish to help feed the world.

Location: Phoenix
Members: 230
Latest Activity: Oct 7, 2019

Thank you all for joining my group, I hope to do a lot with all anyone interested. Please
tell me any event suggestions you would like us to do.

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Comment by Bob Campbell on September 6, 2012 at 8:42pm: Did I make a mistake?

Comment by Bob Campbell on September 6, 2012 at 8:26pm: @Scott Bloom - I don't think it had anything to do with the sea weed. My system will drop Nitrates over night too.

Comment by Scott Bloom on September 6, 2012 at 6:42pm: On Monday I had a reading of 0 ammonia, 5+ nitrites and 20-40 nitrates. After taking the reading I added 1tsp of seaweed extract I bought from a nursery to my 60 gallon system. The next day when i tested my system the nitrates were almost at zero and it has taken till today to get the reading up to 5ppm. Anyone have an idea why the seaweed addition might have caused the nitrate drop?

Comment by Larry in Casa Grande on September 5, 2012 at 4:24pm: Wow, no activity for the last 17 hours?

Sheri must still be cleaning fish, cooking fish, canning fish...............

I still feel bad, will Bob ever let me come over again?

Comment by Chris George on September 5, 2012 at 4:04pm: @Larry in CG.....don't feel bad....I know Sheri and Bob love having you visit them....and I think they also love to eat fish, so win-win!! ;-)

Comment by Larry in Casa Grande on September 4, 2012 at 10:05pm: James I have been using this pump I got from Amazon.com, and so far it has been incredible for me.

Coralife 05146 SL-65 Super Luft Air Pump

by Coralife

Comment by Bob Campbell on September 4, 2012 at 6:55pm: @Jasper - http://www.hydrofarm.com/product.php?itemid=7646

I also have an active aqua 4 outlet that I like.

Comment by John Malone on September 4, 2012 at 6:25pm: @Bob : I got my fish from Sheri on August 2, so just over one month ago. I don't know how old they were at that time, but they were about 1/2 - 3/4 inch long. It's completely amazing how fast they have grown in just one month. I've gone from feeding them a teaspoon of food 3 times a day to 1/4 cup of food three times a day, and thinking about increasing that again. It's crazy. They got regular snacks of squash beetles until my squash plants succumbed.

Water temperature is about 85 degrees and the fish are loving life.

Comment by Sheri Schmeckpeper on September 4, 2012 at 6:21pm: OH! Tractor! LOL! Bob would have known exactly what you were saying. Sorry about that! John, thanks for the PTO explanation. I was a member of the PTO at my son's school long ago... :) We have a generator hanging out in the shop if we needed it. Backups are good to have!

Aww, thanks, John. And thanks for taking care of our little friends. I'm glad things are going well with them. :)

Comment by Bob Campbell on September 4, 2012 at 5:58pm: @John - I too have some about 4 to 5 inches. They were born around May 1st. How old are yours?