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]

 

  3 lettuces i removed today

 

 

 

[TCLynx]

Francois,

   Your stuff is looking really beautiful.  Makes me dream of some cooler weather.

[Francois Lemmer]

Thanks Tc

update on system plants and fish...all happy

[Francois Lemmer]

[Francois Lemmer]

This is celery that I have never cut from seedlings…just left to grow
2 of the rafts broke with the weight and expansion of the pots with the celery.
I replaced 2 of the rafts today and planted with basil seedlings in small pots.
I will do this in stages of 2 rafts at a time until I have replaced them all….
The last lot of rafts have lasted more than a year.
The other old rafts still in the system are not broken but I will replace anyway.
The previous rafts had 5 big holes and 5 smaller holes….this time I only made 4 big holes per raft spaced at 250 mm.
I find using the bigger pot and then dropping the smaller pot into the bigger pots works well for me.
Yust me thinking

[Francois Lemmer]

[Francois Lemmer]

[Francois Lemmer]

 I have spotted the first bsf flying around my bins last week

Looking into one of the bins today………. I now have larva...not a lot but they are here... I am just to happy knowing they the bsf are around…and laying eggs I want to be prepared for them this year

[Francois Lemmer]

update

[Francois Lemmer]

 Hi All
Took some photos…update
All the fish are still alive and happy.
I am happy

[Francois Lemmer]

update

i cut most of the plants back

[Francois Lemmer]

the celery ..i counted +-10 plants per grow pot

the roots has grow and split this 50mm pot

and with this splitting the raft