My new avitar on community.theaquaponicsource.com seems appropriate. Maybe my seeds will begin to sprout better now ...
Payday shelving plumbing and rocks
3/4" River Stones (520 lbs for only $12)Anticipation makes the reality all the sweeter. The past few weeks have been like Christmas, aquaponics-style....
Auto Top Up
The Dial Float ValveMurray Hallam shows a cool doo-hicky for automatically topping up a tank in his video Aquaponcs: The First 12 Months. Looked like...
Thinking Vacant
Sometimes things conspire in such a way as to make you look blankly at walls for such a long time as to make other parts of you decide to wonder off and...
Bio Char
Jon Parr recently wrote that he was replacing his grow media with Bio-Char. This has really caught my attention.UPDATE:Justin sent me a link to...
Getting rid of Fruit Flies
Summer + Fruit + Vegetables = Fruit FliesThis summer we had an infestation of fruit flies. Now that its under control, I thought Id share what we did:1)...
Can aquaponic bioponic and hydroponic become dangerous
I wonder how dangerous aquaponic, bioponic, and hydroponic can become... Harmful algal bloom (HAB) are capable of producing a number of toxins that may...
Miss Utility changes my plans
The reason my fish tank is full of petals...The weather has been beautiful, and so I decided it was time to start digging the planned 18" hole for my...
Poor Mans Greenhouse aka High Tunnel
$50 Greenhouse at doorgarden.comOne of my early rants focused on the fact that it gets cold up here in the continental US. And not everyone has a greenhouse.But...
Stirling engines Adjustable Stirling engine crankshaft
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Ive been busy making the tips of my fingers raw.Wire seems to enjoy hurting people.But I love the stuff.My time learning how to make screw in eyelets...
Aquaponics New growbed flow control
I few days ago I created and installed all the required bits to control the way water enters and exits my growbed.All this is probably overkill as a lot...
Automation
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Comment by Iowa Aquaponics -Weve created a series of tutorials with some of these features using the Arduino and Googles cloud infrastructure.Online...
Making smoked foods Frenched luxury cut ribs
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I thought I was pretty clever when I came up with cutting ribs so that ever second bone was removed. I called it "luxury cut ribs". This is always enormously...
Thinking Baby spinach with blue cheese and a drop of lemon
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Baby spinach with blue cheese and a drop of lemon is really nice.A small amount of cheese on a leaf like a cracker, add another leaf and a drop of lemon...
Good Air Pump
UPDATE: I found this air pump that seems to be exactly what most of us would want.The AP 100 is quiet at 45db.It pumps 144 liters per minute at zero...
Thinking Flat Earth gravity
I had someone cancel an appointment today so found myself browsing youtube with no particular direction and found something interesting.A while ago I...
Aquaponics Roots in the media
Its quite possible that this is one of those things that everyone does, but its so obvious that nobody mentions it.Perhaps everything is one of those...
Aquaponics Duckweed
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Since I moved my duckweed into its new home its growing like some kind of thing that grows a lot.It looked like this nineteen days ago.Then eighteen days...
Aquaponics Transplanting weeds wild rocket
Sometimes I wonder what normal people might do if the weeds in their front lawn were getting so high that they were lowering local property values, but...
Tour my Aquaponic System
Nearly finished Please let me give you a tour of my aquaponic grow room. Its not quite finished, but I want to show you the progress Ive made. ...
Electronics Aquaponics Demand fish feeder software
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regained,
software,
tomato
As far as I know, the software is all working on my demand fish feeder.Its a bit of a mess, with a few goto statements and a few unused variables. Ill...
My Spin Filter
I have to admit this did not work as well as I had hoped. But Im sharing my triumphs as well as my failures so that others can also learn from what...
Thinking Local knowledge
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When I was in Papua New Guinea - Madang in particular (I think) Mum found some locals that were willing to let us borrow their canoe for a dollar or two...
Stirling engines Slow motion balloon power piston
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I made a few adjustments to my little tin can Stirling engine. It now spins twice as fast, at a rate of around 210rpm. Not that that means much...
Activated Carbon Filters
How does a carbon filter benefits an aquarium?Activated Carbon is amazing! The surface area is enormous and this allows bacteria to grow much faster...
Stepping Stone Approach Total cost 1250
Detail from Fish in Water Stepping StoneNow that Im happy with my prototype system, let me lay out an incremental approach for building a aquaponics system...
Epic adventurer Bread Every day fresh loaf for one
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One of the things Id like to be able to enjoy on my planned epic River Murray adventure, is fresh bread.I can make bread due to a previous enjoyed "Thing",...
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