Category: Plants Food Animals

The litter arrived uneventfully a few weeks ago now. Vaccinations and chipping due in a few weeks.

This is the third year of flowering of this Hakea. I think it is Hakea_francisiana. The flowers only last a few days. It is very similar to a white/cream flowering…

Finally starting to get system back and running after a 12 month break due to operations and power supply problems. Guards to keep chooks and currawongs out. Fresh lettuces Spinach…

Our system has been running for a few months now, and I thought I’d share my maintenance schedule. Daily Feeding – feed fish morning and night. Feed yabbies every second…

It is important to monitor ammonia, nitrites, nitrates, temperature and the pH level of the water, to ensure that they are in ‘range’. If not, you need to take corrective…

Before starting to create your aquaponics system, you should give some thought as to where you are going to put it. In many cases, you may not have a choice…

The following us an updated version of an assignment submitted for my study in Writing the Zeitgeist at Curtin University. Live simply so that others may simply live – Gandhi.…

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It is important that before adding plants and fish to your newly aquaponics setup that you start it cycling. No, I don’t mean go and ride your bike, but you…

Fish and plants are the main components of the aquaponics system. The growbed media provide the environment for the conversion of the ammonia produced by the fish, into nitrates that…