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Nice water effect!

Before I plant them into the grow bed, I'll have to wash their roots first. I can see the Mint anticipating its new found territory.

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A heavy down pour two days ago had increased the water level tremendously. On Tuesday morning, I found

that the bottom part of the outlet pipe had fallen off into the fish tank. Surprisingly, the siphon still works! I will

leave it as it is for now since it's providing more aeration than before. The shortened siphon outlet also slowsdown the outgoing flow since a shorter downward pipe means less water within the outlet pipe to contribute to

the siphoning action by gravity.

Today I went to the pasar tani (farmer's market)

near my house to buy some vegetables to grow in

my system. Although my setup is new, most of the

fish tank water as well as the expanded clay was

reused from from the old system. There is still

plenty of nitrates in the water as I didn't plant

much in my old system. So in order to removethose excess nitrates, I will plant Kang Kong

(Water Convolvulus), a Pegaga-like plant (is it

Pegaga? can anyone confirm?), and the famous

aquaponics monster - The Mint... Kang Kong and

the Pegaga-like plant will probably do well since

they are aquatic plants.

Thanks for

reading!

Will post

another

update

soon...

After

countless

failures

experienced from my previous setup, i decided to make a new one... The problem with my previous setup is

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Pegaga-like plant was planted in bunches of 4 - 5 plants with their roots still intact. For the Mint, I removed their roots and bottom leaves

before inserting them into the media. Letting them grow new roots would be better than risking their old conditioned for soil roots to rot. I

also had sprinkled some Tomato, Chil li and Kai lan seeds 3 days ago. I'll be expecting them to germinate i n a few days time. I've al so

inserted 6 Barbados Cherry seeds in to the growbed - "sigh..." - but I also read that they take 6 to 12 months minimum to germinate and

only 5% will be successful.

I threw half of the kangkong into the guppy tank. Some mint and pegaga were also thrown in together. The kangkong will root in the water

and provide hiding places for guppy fries.

that it was placed under a shade thus receiving very little sunlight and the pump was weak causing the sipho

to fail frequently when it gets too clogged up... Due to its small fish tank size, water temperature and pH levelsfluctuates a lot causing massive guppy deaths many times... Aeration wasn't good either...

Here's a pic of my first setup:

And now, presenting my second aquaponics setup! This time it's bigger and better...!

Here's some pics:

The setup was based on Affnan's Tilapia Breeding Homekit. The idea of using slotted angle iron as growbed

stand was inspired from Mahfudz' aquaponics and En. Ahmad Hayan Radzi setup.

The pic above shows the growbed. The two small plants are seedlings of a nearby tree. I've also inserted a

curry plant cutting there. Its difficult to root curry plant cuttings, their leaflets turn black if it stays wet for too

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The other half of the kangkong was thrown in to the larger fish tank for my Pleco to munch. Ah! The water has a green tinge! I am happy for

that as I have never had an algae bloom in any of my systems before.

Guppy feeding frenzy; Food consumed in 3 seconds!

long. For the purpose of this photo taking session,I've removed the plastic bag covering the curry

plant cutting used to protect it from drying out.

The angle iron stand is painted with blue outdoor

paint; Only on the outside! You can see the inner

sides were still gray. The reason is the paint took

too long to dry that i lost my patience and just

went ahead to fix the stand. I may cover the stand

with plastic sheet for extra protection later...

Here's a photo of the "big" fish tank. You can see

a lone Plecotamus (Malay: Ikan Bandaraya) by the

dark corner there. That pleco has been with me

since I first started aquaponics. I'm using an Astro

3000 pump which is very powerful so i have to

divert much of the water flow back in to the tank.

This will be room for Tilapias in the future...

Here's the "small" fish tank. Those are my little guppies from my previous setup. They always rush towards

me whenever I approach them as if they haven't eaten for days. This tank was actually the growbed of my





previous setup. The overflow pipe in the middle was a standpipe

previously. That green plastic bush ball on the right is a hiding place

for their tiny fries... White stuffs at the bottom left are coral rocks to

buffer the pH...

Oh look, the siphon is flushing!

I'll post an update soon... Thanks for reading!

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