I want to make everyone aware that those inexpensive solenoid valves like used for irrigation are not necessarily the simple way to control water flow to grow beds.
See those solenoid valve require a certain amount of water pressure to operate properly. If there isn’t enough . . . → Read More: Solenoid Valves
The other day some one asked for more info about my water bottle Aquaponic tower flow spreaders. Well they don’t really photograph very well and are sort of difficult to describe but this video might help.
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I was having trouble with . . . → Read More: Tower Flow
Ok a common random comment I see to get on here and I suspect is it really just spam but if some one really does like my blog that much and really wants to ask me questions about the development, then please just use the contact form, (it is the in the middle of the . . . → Read More: Random ramblings and Spam comments
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Here is for those people who didn’t get to see the Duck TV web cam today before it got too dark. Here is the Funny Ducks video or Ducks biting water as it were. These are two young Female Muscovy . . . → Read More: Funny Ducks
Testing out Duck TV (and chickens too, they all like the duck-a-ponics system) If you like Duck TV and want to see Fish TV, please donate to the fund so I can afford some live web cameras for the fish tanks.
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This is a live web cam . . . → Read More: Duck TV-post
Now I know I’ve covered the importance of covers over fish tanks before but I’ll mention it again. It is very important to have a cover over your fish tank for several reasons. 1-to keep the sun from causing algae problems in your fish tank (now you don’t need to completely black out the tank, . . . → Read More: Fish Jump
I set up my aquaponics raft bed last fall but haven’t done too much with it so far. I couldn’t find any 2″ foam so was stuck with 3/4″ and that isn’t really high enough for keeping the seedlings from water logging if I were to drill holes and place net pots in the foam. . . . → Read More: Growing Shoots and seed starting
Now for a long time many people have said you could stock an outrageous amount of fish in an aquaponics system, however, I think most of these claims have some numbers mixed up and are probably taken a bit out of context, then when some one new to aquaponics goes and tries to mimic what . . . → Read More: Revising stocking recommendations
So I haven’t been as good about writing my blog posts lately but at least the aquaponics systems seem to get along just fine with little attention provided the system is well designed and balanced. Things can still go wrong but for the most part the aquaponics system needs just a quick glance each day . . . → Read More: Life gets busy but Aqupaponics is easy