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Ya know my post yesterday? I spoke too soon. I have now experienced a total fish kill in a system. Let me explain. Fishkill This was in my 300 gallon system (the big system is still doing fine and the really big fish are still living.) It is winter here and my systems . . . → Read More: Fish Kill Let me start by saying I have never (knock on wood) killed a complete stock of fish. However, occasionally things happen and I have lost a few. Most illness in fish is brought on by stress and poor water quality. It is important that when one will be handling the fish the water quality should . . . → Read More: Sometime Fish Get Sick June 2009 I love looking back on some of the old photos when things are looking a bit lacking after the cold season sets in. However, that summer I probably had way too many tomato plants in and it didn’t leave much room for other things. . . . → Read More: Summer Before last I’ve had a few people comment that one should not use seaweed extract in aquaponics systems because it would cause salt to build up and even heard it suggested that the occasional use of salt is defeating to the aquaponics. I can understand some portions of the arguments but I have never seen an issue . . . → Read More: To Seaweed or not to Seaweed I recently read a post some where that was criticizing how advice in a public forum might get taken as gospel and run people into aquaponics disaster. I can understand where this might come into play when one skim reads without doing much of the introductory reading and picking bits of knowledge from here and . . . → Read More: Understanding the Details Well, I knew I couldn’t keep it up forever. Was way too tired last night to write anything and I’m not doing too much better today. I’m traveling and I don’t have the near to hand inspiration of the aquaponics garden with me. I miss eating our fresh salads, eggs and fish. So, here is . . . → Read More: Missed a daily post Cold morning Dec 6 2009 Here is a picture from last winter inside the greenhouse. It was cold out early in the season last winter but things were still moderate enough inside the greenhouse to keep the tropical plants alive at least early in the season. This winter is different with no protection . . . → Read More: Picture from last winter heavy rain Something that crops up occasionally in aquaponics or hydroponics is what happens with an outdoor or greenhouse sump tank that is sunk into the ground. See if the water level in a barrel or other light weight tank that is sunk into the ground gets really low while there is a . . . → Read More: Heavy Rain New tiny fish Our year three initial order of fish. Tiny Channel Catfish fingerlings. Sometimes when you go to get fish, your only choice might be to get what they have on hand or get nothing at all. So at that time we picked up what was supposed to be 100 3-5 inch . . . → Read More: New Catfish Dec 24, 2009 Greenhouse Tied together Come the second winter (we are now into the third winter of my aquaponics experience) I extended the greenhouse a bit and tied the tunnel over the monster bed in with the main greenhouse. Then I added some rain water collection and a hard roof section between the existing greenhouse . . . → Read More: Greenhouse improvements second winter |
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