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It is New Years Eve and I don’t have anything particular wanting to be written at the moment. Sometimes ideas come wanting to get out and other times I see a need to share some particular topic. At the moment, none of that is coming to mind. So, here is a picture of the aquaponics . . . → Read More: Happy New Year Power can go out on occasion and a heavily stocked fish tank can run our of dissolved oxygen in short order when water flow stops. I hooked up a battery backup that would be able to run my air pump for at least 20 hours before running the battery down below half charge. My set . . . → Read More: Battery Backup It has come to my attention that I haven’t posted anything about worms or Vermicomposting to my blog. I originally set up worm bins for disposing of kitchen scraps and getting wonderful worm castings back in the summer of 2007. Worms are really easy to keep. There is a nice book out there Worms Eat . . . → Read More: Vermicomposting I met James Godsil at Sweet Water Organics while I was up in Milwaukee last week. Sweet Water Organics is an ambitious effort to utilize an old warehouse property to create something similar to Growing Power’s urban community building food production system. Biggest challenge I see for Sweet Water Organics is light. It takes a . . . → Read More: Sweet Water Organics Sorry no pictures on this one, Growing Power doesn’t allow it. First let me say that I think Growing Power is a wonderful organization and I love what they are doing in general. However, I don’t think people new to aquaponics should attempt their Aquaponics System design methods of growing fish. It isn’t that . . . → Read More: Growing Power I was up near Chicago not long ago and visited some one who has recently built an aquaponics system at We Grow Dreams. we grow dreams aquaponics grow beds Philip Wolf Designed an Aquaponics system that has a couple of big fish tanks dug into the ground and lined with EPDM liner. A . . . → Read More: We Grow Dreams Valve contraption Some might ask me how I manage to use an indexing valve on my big system CHIFT PIST set up when my pump runs constantly. Well this might not be the best layout for using an indexing valve but I’m managed to make it work. valve insides I designed . . . → Read More: Low Pressure Automated Valve Wet corner wet under liner before emptying the bed Well, I finally discovered my mistake in building with lumber and liner in Florida. Termites have caused some of my grow beds to begin leaking. Time to make a change. We will replace the middle leaking grow bed with two . . . → Read More: Lumber and Liner termite damage New Quarantine system Finally, I moved the waterfall tank back by the two North Grow beds on my big system and turned that into my new Aquaponics Quarantine system. Tank over 200 gallons and about 200 gallons worth of grow bed. That should be enough to make a decent quarantine system I would . . . → Read More: Bigger Quarantine System With the addition of the new Big CHIFT PIST fish tank, I decided to remove the waterfall tank and add a new grow bed in it’s place. removed waterfall tank Frame for new bed This change to the aquaponics system will give a place to filter the excess water flow from . . . → Read More: More Big system changes |
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