New Products

Announcing access to an array of new products. I was after one particular product but I figured I could allow people to look for others they might want as well. There is but one note I will make, I have only personally tested one of these products and it will be posted in the products . . . → Read More: New Products

Indexing Valves for Constant Height in Fish tank

I’ve had a few people ask about doing constant height in Fish tank systems with Aquaponics indexing/sequencing valves lately.

Doing constant height in fish tank (CHIFT) with an indexing valve does require a slight modification of thinking. There are ways to do it but I don’t think I would recommend doing it with only one . . . → Read More: Indexing Valves for Constant Height in Fish tank

300 Gallon system Jan 20, 2011 Video

I thought everyone would like to see the growth of the plants in the 300 gallon aquaponics system over the past 18 days. It’s looking pretty good now that I’ve added some netting to keep the neighbor chickens from eating the seedlings.

I’ve adjusted some things so that the aquaponics system is now operating . . . → Read More: 300 Gallon system Jan 20, 2011 Video

Fish Kill

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

Low Pressure Automated Valve

Valve contraption

Some might ask me how I manage to use an indexing valve on my big system CHIFT PIST set up when my pump runs constantly. Well this might not be the best layout for using an indexing valve but I’m managed to make it work.

valve insides

I designed . . . → Read More: Low Pressure Automated Valve

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New Feeder Over Catfish

Feeder timer

I finally went ahead and got some new Automatic Fish feeders. We actually tried a fish pond feeder but it was designed to fling the feed out into the middle of a pond and really didn’t work well for our situation for many of the . . . → Read More: How it all Started 12, Fish Feeder 2

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In Search of an Aquaponics fish feeder

Demand Feeders

Game feeder

This starts my saga in search of an Aquaponics fish feeder solution. Having looked in catalogs for feeders that are used at fish farms, I decided most of them were way to $$ so I thought to search for cheaper solutions. . . . → Read More: How it all Started 7, Fish feeders 1

Indexing Valves

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