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Another quick time lapse video of the duck yard. I hope to have several more of these done up shortly so I will be able to stitch the whole year together. Now I just need to get a few more . . . → Read More: Duck Yard Time Lapse March 2011
The common recommended minimum depth for flood and drain gravel beds is 1 foot deep. Some people do attempt beds less than that but the effective bio-filter in a shallow bed is more limited and managing flood and drain by siphons becomes farm more difficult with . . . → Read More: Deep grow beds
Ok still trying to get something better working. I’ve managed to get a time lapse going from the pictures taken Back in Feb 2011. Let us see if the video is better. I will work on doing this for the rest of the months I have pictures for and Hopefully I can stitch something together . . . → Read More: Duck Yard Time Lapse take 2
Not too long ago some one asked for a diagram of the Duck-A-Ponics So I’ve finally done one up. I’m currently in the process of upgrading the Duck system to provide more filtration. Since I’m unwilling to spend too much extra money on this system I picked up cheap kiddie pools . . . → Read More: Duck-a-Ponics update July 7 2011
I’ve spent a couple days working on the worm bins. We got lazy this past spring and the worm bins became infested with ANTS!!!!!! Arg
See before I had been using place the feet in a container of water or mineral oil method of keeping ants out of the worm bins. This method works fine . . . → Read More: Ant Proof Worm Bin Stands
Ok I’ve lately seen The question of What and how much to supplement with things like Maxicrop. I’ve answered the question several times so now it seems I should put that answer down here in my Blog so I can refer back to it and just send people to the link rather than having to . . . → Read More: Supplement Dosing
Was thinking today about terminology. See many people want to do something like Aquaponics but they don’t necessarily want to use fish and some don’t even want to use water creatures at all so we get terms like
vermiponics
peeponics
organic hydroponics
etc……
Well I don’t really think the term organic hydroponics works very . . . → Read More: BIO-Ponics
So I’ve had some requests for more video posts. Well here is one I hope you will find fun even though it is kinda tricky to understand what you are seeing.
I wedged the camera in right next to the shoot on the fish feeder over the big system tank. Some of the catfish come . . . → Read More: May 25 Feeding the Catfish
A nice whole saw kit plus a few larger whole saws (of the appropriate size for bulkhead fittings or uniseal fittings of whatever two primary large sizes you are going to use if doing a large system) are definitely a must in the Aquaponics Tool . . . → Read More: Drilling holes in plastic container Tips