My pilot project Francois

[Francois Lemmer]

I started messing around with tilapia 2006-2010

2010 - the end of july i had to take  my system down

i am currently trying to get a piece of property to set up a scaled system.

basickly i dont have a system that is running

but i want to share my last 4 years with aquaponics

with members.......

 

[Francois Lemmer]

 

Morning

Sir nitrate I have not checked yet....no testing kit...very expensive

Fish in my system 10 male tilapia+-30g and 15 Kio...8 off the Kio are +-150-200 mm and the rest are smaller 80mm

In total I have25 fish in the system and in my system +-1760 litres water...in my tank I have +-600 litres

Safwat if you open the chart ....double click you can see the chart clear

Thank you

Hi Francisco,

Thank you for sharing your experience with your AP system, unfortunately the chart is not clear to me! can you tell us how much nitrate you get now since you started last July?

What's the size of the fish tank and how may koi in it?

 

 

 

[Safwat Zaki]

Hi Francisco,

Thanks for your reply, I would like to know if the system means the rafts where you plant the vegetables and your fish are  in the tank? Is that right? Does  the water cycle continously from the filter into the rafts and back to the fish tank?  Now where are the worms in the filter or in the growing beds?, Don't they get drowning?

Cheers

 

[Francois Lemmer]

Hi Safwat

yes sir the rafts is the polystyrene flouting with plants

the system cycles continously and the worms do fine i a system in the water

the worms are in my worm filter were the water from the tank runs through before going into my grow trays with the plants

as long there is food for them you can have them in growbeds no problem....they survive and do good for a system

i believe the worms is aquaponics secret weapon....

Yust me thinking

this was worms in the growt rays of my pilot project...between the gravel and they thrived

[TCLynx]

As long as water is well oxygenated, worms can survive fine under water.  They breath through their skin and oxygen dissolved in water is just as good for them as oxygen from the air.

[Francois Lemmer]

thanks tc

[Safwat Zaki]

Thank you guys for the clarification. I had the impression that the worms migrate away from water flooding media.

Francois Lemmer said:

thanks tc

[TCLynx]

worms can wind up almost anywhere in a system.  I regularly find them in the pump basket, up on wet bits of plumbing at the feeds to the tops of my towers, in among the plant roots and in my media beds.  They only try to escape from flooded conditions if they are running out of dissolved oxygen, in which case you need to improve the aeration in your system.

[Francois Lemmer]

Hi

It is almost like they take over.....in a good way

TCLynx said: worms can wind up almost anywhere in a system.

[TCLynx]

Love em

[Francois Lemmer]

Hi All
Some photos of how the plants are doing…

some of plants out of blue baskets

[Japan Aquaponics - アクアポニックス 日本]

Hi Francois,

 

I have just had a great 1.5hrs reading through all of your posts from start to finish.  What a great story and such inventive ideas.  This is absolutely fantastic to read through and I have really enjoyed doing so.

 

Thank you for posting all of this stuff up, and good luck with the new system, which also looks super.

 

Aragon

[Francois Lemmer]

Hi Aragon

glad you enjoyed the read ....as much as i enjoyed the journey of to where i am

never sorry for trying...not everything worked learned from all my mistakes and still learning every day

in short i am addicted to this thing called......aquaponics and the challenges.

i enjoy this

thank's again

Yust me thinking

 

Japan Aquaponics said:

Hi Francois,

 

I have just had a great 1.5hrs reading through all of your posts from start to finish.  What a great story and such inventive ideas.  This is absolutely fantastic to read through and I have really enjoyed doing so.

 

Thank you for posting all of this stuff up, and good luck with the new system, which also looks super.

 

Aragon