A workshop to get some hands on AP experience expanding my 300 gallon Aquaponics system. It currently has 3, 100 gallon grow beds and I’m going to add 3 more. This system uses an Aquaponics Indexing Valve, this will allow me to have 600 gallons of grow bed without running my fish in a 300 . . . → Read More: Workshop Dec 11/12, 2010
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For my second installment of How it all Started, I will take a little step back and show off gravel washing and getting the grow beds up online. The previous blog post left off with a picture of the system basically up and running with a fish tank, 4 grow beds and a shade structure. . . . → Read More: How it all Started, Finish Initial Build and get fish. This is to be the first in a series of posts about the early stages and progression of My Big Aquaponics System. This system has grown/changed much over the years and my mistakes with it have taught me so much. Barrel Ponics System I discovered Aquaponics back in late 2007, I had heard . . . → Read More: TCLynx’s Big Aquaponics System how it all started Want to sequence the flow of water into your grow beds to only flood one at a time? Want to avoid extra wiring and control electronics? Then consider an aquaponics indexing valve. All that is needed to operate this valve is a flow of water that starts and stops. If you are already . . . → Read More: Indexing Valves So Friday Afternoon I went down and picked up the new liner for the bed. Yesterday, I spent the day installing that new liner. First I drained the existing liner (involved setting all the grow beds to constant flood to hold the extra water so I didn’t waste it all. I also filled up some . . . → Read More: adding a raft bed In some places I’m known for my patience in re-explaining many of the basic info needed for stable home aquaponics system design. Things like the three major functions of media filled flood and drain grow beds (actually there are more than three functions.) 1-Media filled flood and drain grow beds provide Bio-filtration 2-Media filled flood . . . → Read More: Basic Media Bed Aquaponic Design Originally posted by TCLynx on AGC, May 31, 2010 Additional aeration is often a good idea in aquaponics. How that aeration is best provided is sometimes a hotly debated topic. Anyway, here are some numbers to help choose an air pump if that is the method you choose.1 cubic foot per minute of air will . . . → Read More: Added Aeration Originally posted by TCLynx on AGC, Nov 6, 2010 My first two years doing Aquaponics, I had my structure over my main Aquaponic system which provided handy support for plastic to turn it essentially into a greenhouse. However, as many know, last spring code enforcement came around and said I had to take it down . . . → Read More: My first AP winter without a greenhouse Originally posted by TCLynx on AGC, Nov 8, 2010 Raft bed saga part 4Got up this morning to check on the new bed, still leaking but the bowing problem seems solved. I used the time while that part of the garden was sunny this morning to add the rest of the arches over the bed . . . → Read More: Raft bed saga continues part 4 Originally posted by TCLynx on AGC, Nov 7, 2010 Raft Bed Saga Part 3 Grrrr, Here is what I found this morning when I cam out to see how the raft bed did filled over night. The Stays didn’t, stay that is, they sprung off. I must admit I didn’t secured them very well. The . . . → Read More: Raft bed saga continues Part 3 |
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