Chris " Wild Dog " S.'s Posts - Aquaponic Gardening2024-03-28T14:39:36ZChris " Wild Dog " S.https://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/ChrisWildDogShttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2797022556?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=28ef86a1jiomu&xn_auth=noChristmas in July...sure.....but What about Strawberries at Christmas !?tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2015-12-10:4778851:BlogPost:6194812015-12-10T22:14:38.000ZChris " Wild Dog " S.https://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/ChrisWildDogS
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2730521802?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2730521802?profile=original" width="640"></img></a> Christmas in july... ok sure but what about, <br></br>Strawberries for Christmas !?<br></br> <br></br> The other nite i came home from work to find a most pleasant surprise. A pair of bright white <br></br><br></br>Strawberry flowers !! YAY ! This in the middle of december too! I doubt they will mature in <br></br><br></br>time for christmas, but it will be nice just the same. I am so happy and feel…</p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2730521802?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2730521802?profile=original" width="640"/></a>Christmas in july... ok sure but what about, <br/>Strawberries for Christmas !?<br/> <br/> The other nite i came home from work to find a most pleasant surprise. A pair of bright white <br/><br/>Strawberry flowers !! YAY ! This in the middle of december too! I doubt they will mature in <br/><br/>time for christmas, but it will be nice just the same. I am so happy and feel blessed with <br/><br/>this gift in my indoor aquaponics system.<br/> I also have onion flowers blooming, what i think is neat about those is they look like a <br/><br/>bouqette of tiny white flowers. The onion plant has 3 long stems each with blooming fowers.<br/> while i am sharing about new things..my rosies made babies. i found a baby rosie in my sump <br/><br/>tank while doing maintenance last week! The thing that is so special about this finding is the <br/><br/>path the baby had to take to get there. 1st out the water bridge syphon can, to the flaoting <br/><br/>raft tank, another water bridge, to the grow bed (full of lava rock), then travel into the <br/><br/>homemade bell syphon to the gold fish pond, and finaly another water bridge into the sump <br/><br/>tank.I dont know about you but i think this is quite an undertaking for a baby fish. i put him <br/><br/>in a fish tank that i have baby cichlids in as well as a couple adult rosies...and of course a <br/><br/>couple gold fish that got stuck in my water bridge pipe. i thought if they want out of the <br/><br/>pond so bad, then so be it, off to the fishtank with them. <br/> I have mint drying, to give organic mint tea bags out for christmas gifts.<br/> I truely Love my aquaponics!<br/> Wild Dog</p>My Start as a NooB and new member to this wonderful grouptag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2014-11-03:4778851:BlogPost:5851332014-11-03T22:31:48.000ZChris " Wild Dog " S.https://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/ChrisWildDogS
<p>I started this about 6 months ago, because I stumbled across DIY aquaponics You Tubes, while looking for a way to stop having to buy filter media for my 2 fish tanks and Koi pond in my Living room. This started an obsession that has led me down a path of learning and applying all sorts of methods and ideas to use on my 1st aquaponics system. I use a host of recycled materials including a shampoo bottle, empty fishfood bottles, rolled up monster can( used as a pipe for a bell syphon) the box…</p>
<p>I started this about 6 months ago, because I stumbled across DIY aquaponics You Tubes, while looking for a way to stop having to buy filter media for my 2 fish tanks and Koi pond in my Living room. This started an obsession that has led me down a path of learning and applying all sorts of methods and ideas to use on my 1st aquaponics system. I use a host of recycled materials including a shampoo bottle, empty fishfood bottles, rolled up monster can( used as a pipe for a bell syphon) the box the shop light came in, as a gutter lined with window plastic, (filters i had already made -peanut butter jar, coffee cans), scrap foam from a manufacturing plant, just to name a few. i now have a sucsessful colony of red worms, even the snails have moved into the trays and are multiplying :) cuttings from plants grow like they were never cut from the mother plant. i recently upgraded the system adding several new trays, to my surprise the snails moved into the new trays on thier own and are growing well. it seems to be a fool proof system. My 19 year old cichlid even seems happier since i tied the whole system together, 2 fish tanks and a koi pond feeding the grow trays then to "Mr Ugly" my reactor draining into the koi pond, used as the sump tank for the system.<br/> I used several methods i learned and I invented a syphon overflow to feed the trickle lines to the trays. a water bridge connects the 2 fishtanks, a pump in the koi pond fills a tray above 1 tank and a syphon overflow exits the other fishtank, feeding the trays, then drain into Mr Ugly, wich drains into the koi pond. I have a flush fill bell syphon system on several trays and the 4 big trays use a flood overflow, i periodicly pull a scrap piece of pipe out to flush the systemand replace like a flush fill. ( about 4 to 6 times a day ). my ph has managed to stay in range by itself, it changes after adding rainwater, but the next day it is normal again. I have not lost a fish for over 2 years! except the new feeder fish i bought that were sick already. my goldfish mixed with the koi are feeder fish the cichlid did not eat. i have a few rosies i am starting in the other fishtank, i was upset that 8 out of the 10 i got died within a week later, (this is the supliers fault not mine, as all the tanks are tied together and no adverse effects on other fish or plants) scrap foam cut into about 1 inch squares are in Mr Ugly as biological media as well as some filter floss. i have pepsi can and spice bottle with holes drilled in them as a drain cap for the pipes that exit the reactor. I tried buying "organic Herbs" to grow they were dead when i bought them as well only the basil survived in the trays. I cut clippings from my bay leaf plant and they grew like they never left the original plant. i have had some trouble getting the flow rates to work the bell syphon right, as well as adjusting the water level of 2 tanks across the room from each other. about 12 feet away the water bridge works great although it collects air i have to runa seperate pump to constantly suck the water n air out so it will keep working right, but i had a smaller pump already so i used it there. the fountain pump i got at rural king is great for only $27 it is made for a 5 foot fountain but works incredibly well to feed both the 1st tank and the isolated tray. wow I am excited to share this look above i have writtten a book just to say i like this group, Thank You for accepting me and here is where I am at in the NooB stage always learning and applying new methods as I can. Thank God I am single and own my own trailer !<a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2772261459?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2772261459?profile=original" width="640" class="align-full"/></a></p>