Well, it looks like my “all male” fish had babies! 🙂 I was starting to suspect that at least one of the six fish was female, judging from their behavior. And I guess that was the case. Anyway, this is exciting because we can now eat these 6 adults and then start raising the babies. That…
Lots of lettuce and iron deficiency
Quick update. Here it is my aquaponics system in August. The bottom image is just after a trim. As you can see, we’ve got lots of lettuce…this is enough for many days of salads. I noticed a bit of yellowing that was obviously an iron deficiency, so I added some chelated iron to the system. Less than…
Starting to get a lot of food!!
I haven’t figured out the pH / hardness issue exactly, but it doesn’t seem to be a real problem. I just get my calcium carbonate and potassium carbonate from a homebrew store for really cheap. I alternate adding one or the other with every other water top off. After experimenting, it appears to only take…
Starting tomatoes to transplant outside
We started some tomatoes from seed and kind of forgot about them!!! They got sort of big! We transplanted them to the outside raised bed garden and let them go. They didn’t all survive the transfer. I think it is a bit hard for the roots to go from an aquaponics system with no soil…
Sample of what we are getting
Well, the system is working really well. The fish that was getting beat up didn’t make it, so we ate him….yummy. I added some PVC pipes to the tank so now they each have a cave to call home. They seem to have settled down and aren’t picking on each other any more. We are growing a lot of…
Steady as she goes
It looks like everything is working pretty well. My IBC tote aquaponics system is humming right along without any real problems. I have one fish that is being beat up really badly by the others but I isolated him in another small tank and hope that he will pull through. Tilapia are some mean fish!…
Water quality history
Here is my water quality spreadsheet. While cycling the tank I am taking measurements daily, but I will keep it up to date weekly after that…
Starting my aquaponics system…
I just started an aquaponics system in my basement. I wanted to share this experiment so here it is. I plan on keeping at least tilapia in the fish tank and various herbs / vegetables in the grow bed.  I don’t have much time these days so I will  try to post as much information as I…