I’ve got a 160 gallon stock pond in my set-up and after my first grow cycle I’m realizing the pH of my water is a bit on the high side between 7.8-8, and this is about the same for my tap water. I wanted to try to lower it with distilled or reverse osmosis filtered water to keep the mostly clear water for the aesthetics of the pond. My question is, with a 30-40 gallon water change monthly and about 5-10 gallons added every other week for evaporation, using demineralized water, is will this be sufficient to lower the pH closer to 7? Will I need to add something like peat moss or driftwood as w ..read more

We have an IBC Tote aquaponics setup that has been operational for the past 8 months. We started with twenty five 1" catfish. They went dormant through the winter (water was around 45-50 degrees most of the winter). Well, the weather has warmed up considerably recently (I think the water is now around 67 degrees) and all the catfish died suddenly. We had been measuring the PH, ammonia, and nitrates / nitrites every 3 days. And between yesterday (when they all died) and 3 days prior, the ammonia and nitrates spiked. Does anyone have tips for doing aquaponics in the desert? I didn't think we ne ..read more

Opinions? Critiques? ik ill have to make it bigger and move it outside but i just wanted a start tbh. Have a grow light for from Walmart mounted on ceiling. submitted by /u/RemoveZealousideal69 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

I recently used a water quality testing kit on my aquaponics setup (continuous flow) and found that it was apparently out of the healthy range on certain parameters (results and interpretation chart attached below). My grow bed contains mostly common mint and nasturtium and uses gravel as the grow media. The water tank itself is a 3 gallon Tuff Stuff tank and contains common guppies (used to be just a few and now there are many) and a single turtle. The plants are just there to filter the water as the whole system is mostly just intended to give the turtle a nice outdoor habitat. I've noticed ..read more

I recently used a water quality testing kit on my aquaponics setup (continuous flow) and found that it was apparently out of the healthy range on certain parameters (results and interpretation chart attached below). My grow bed contains mostly common mint and nasturtium and uses gravel as the grow media. The water tank itself is a 3 gallon Tuff Stuff tank and contains common guppies (used to be just a few and now there are many) and a single turtle. The plants are just there to filter the water as the whole system is mostly just intended to give the turtle a nice outdoor habitat. I've not ..read more

So this is a little bit off topic but if anyone could give useful feed back it would be y'all. I run a small farm that's half poultry and half hydro. The original plan was to convert the hydroponics to aquaponics as finances permitted but as the chicken shit piles up at an alarming rate I just have to wonder what would happen if I built a huge compost tea maker and hooked it into an aquaponic style swirl filter and media bio filter? I'm sure it would smell like hot sewer ass but as long as I keep the solids out and keep a healthy bio filter it should work, right? I already use the egg shells ..read more

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Re camping mechanical filter now that it’s nice out and came across these. My ammonia has been high at 2ppm and nitrites about 2-3 ppm and nitrites about 60 ish ppm. I assume poor mechanical filter led to abundance of waste, otherwise, Not sure why ammonia is spiking to 2 ppm. Clearly not in much distress as their rearing? What should I do with all the eggs? submitted by /u/Stock-Principle3712 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Quick question on sizing a hole saw for a bulkhead. I have two threaded bulkheads with an outer diameter of 40.8mm (about 1½ inches if I understand the conversion standards) Do I pick a 40mm holesaw and sand the hole until the bulkhead can go through? Or do I pick a 41mm holesaw and put in a bit of extra silicone/glue in the joint, trusting to the large o-rings of the bulkhead to do the final seal? Basically, friction fit or adhesive/tape-fit for the best result? submitted by /u/Neknoh [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Blueberry cupcakes by Humboldt seeds co. Got a bit floppy towards the end but that’s my fault for not setting my trellis as high as these apparently stretched. But other then that and some tweaks to the amount of floods a day the volume of water in the buckets as well as some tweaks to the overall nutrient inputs especially in the water I’d say it worked wonderfully. Smells insane the frostier of the two has an intense blueberry candy soda type smell. submitted by /u/Party_busses [visit reddit] [comments ..read more