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My pilot project Francois

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.......

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Permalink Reply by Francois Lemmer on December 28, 2011 at 4:12am

Hi All

Yesterday I raised the top of the mini tunnel. Looks better and more user friendly.

The peppers in the system look happy.

The beans I was going to leave for the seeds but far too much.

I picked some beans to eat and I kept some for seeds.

The rest of the beans I will pick as I go along

I cleared two of the rafts today to do a mod…

I want a open space between

raft and water surface Instead of the raft lying directly flat

on the water I have now glued strips down the two sides,

so now the raft floats on the two sides and down the centre there

is space between water and raft bottom.

I will with time and in stages do the mod to all the rafts.

Yust me thinking

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Permalink Reply by Francois Lemmer on December 28, 2011 at 5:48am

the raft back in the tray

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Permalink Reply by TCLynx on December 28, 2011 at 6:39am

Looking good, now the plants don't have to duck so much.

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Permalink Reply by Safwat Zaki on December 28, 2011 at 10:04am

Good idea so the roots can breath more.

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Permalink Reply by Francois Lemmer on December 29, 2011 at 5:52am

Safwat Zaki said:

Good idea so the roots can breath more.

Yes Sir
For better water flow and the plants breathing
When I start planting the next lot of peppers I want to do a test...
Nothing new because I have seen it done with lettuces and it works well
Well from what I have seen of people posting
I am going to add in the one grow tray air stones 1 meter apart under the rafts….oxygen
I want to monitor the diff in growth of the peppers and if worth the extra electricity
Yust me thinking

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Permalink Reply by Francois Lemmer on January 3, 2012 at 2:41am

Hi All
Happy New Year and May it be a good one.
God bless

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Permalink Reply by Francois Lemmer on January 3, 2012 at 2:44am

Everything almost back to normal after our Christmas break I have started rearranging the rafts in my system. In the 1st 2 rafts I reworked I planted capsicum seeds. In the planting pots I used gravel and coco coir. I filled the pot 2/3 with +-6mm gravel and on top of the gravel I planted the seeds in the coco coir. The rest of the plants look ok.