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Comment by Jeremiah Robinson on September 30, 2014 at 1:30pm
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Gotcha. I've been thinking of adding some different filter styles to my basic design. The trick is figuring out how someone can build one with stuff they can get at their hardware store or by ordering online.
One easy addition I can make is a 5-gallon bucket with bird netting.
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Comment by Jim Fisk on September 30, 2014 at 11:50am
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Now I also have another filter online, although I am not running much thru it, (just enough to keep it aerobic along with an airstone in the bottom). It is the poly fill filter that I have posted before, and it is great at removing algae and I would assume any other microscopic solids. I built it some years ago when I got the dreaded start up bloom that turned my water pea soup over night. That cleared the algae out in about 36 hours.
As far as cloudiness that comes and goes a bit during the seasons. I feel the 2 bio-filters on the trout tanks are probably doing most of the work. Everything works together I would have to say. I just transferred 12 mid size trout (10") from the fingerlings tank into the grow out tank which is now all cleaned and ready for a Winter harvest. Finalizing the mid size tank today in terms of upgrading the slo, etc. so we can get another couple dozen fingerlings. It will look like the one below when done.
This is the poly filter I mentioned and I simply run the bypas in the center tube with slots and it passes thru and out the T (siphon breaker) and drops right back into the below grade sump:
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So it sounds like your solution is to filter, filter, filter.
Was there a time when your system had cloudiness? Say, before you implemented some of your filtration?
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@ Jeff, thanks, I wear way too many hats.
@ Jere: 5 media beds, swirl filter and 2 Bio-filters I would guess. Here is a pic I took while the grow out FT was empty showing the PU for the Bio (top) and for the SLO. Sorry about the graininess but it was pretty dark and I had the flash turned off. As you can see I have a couple air stones on the SLO and a 24" "curtain stick" on the bio-filter PU both from WallyWorld:
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Hey Jim,
I'm curious what you think does the clarification to make your water clear? How do you deal with the microscopic dissolved solids that make my water cloudy?
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Comment by Jeff S on September 29, 2014 at 6:39pm
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Jim you never cease to amaze me. Here I was thinking you just know a lot about wood stoves and aquaponics. Who'd have guessed you're a computer guru too.
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Just harvested a 17" and a 16" trout for dinner! So my Swirl/Bio-filter is doing just great and the tank was the cleanest ever.
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Well I guess I'll have to give up the magic. First off I found the pdf by Googling the first sentence from the article. Guess I have to give Google that one. Next I wrote "This is the article if I am not mistaken HERE" and I made the "here bold and underlined because for some strange reason on this forum a link starts out as a standard blue link (after you link it but back to that in a moment) but goes to standard black as soon as you post so no one knows it is a link unless you do something different like make it bold and underlined. As to making it a live link: first copy the url's link into your clipboard (highlight it and hit "command c" on a Mac or "control c" on a PC). Next highlight the text you want to be the link and then click on the "LINK button on the upper left in blue (see pic below) and when the window opens simply "paste" the link that has been sitting on your "clipboard" and close the window (Command v on a Mac and control v on a PC). Voila! it is a link. Now if we could just get the forum brass to fix the link color this would be a bit easier but for now this works.
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Yeah Jim that's it but I had downloaded it back in Feb. so I only had it as a PDF without the URL. I'm still trying to figure out how you put a link where you put HERE lol.
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Jeff, all you need to do is give us the url address. This article has been around since '06. No need to post the entire article, just a link.
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