Growbed filled

I finally have the time and budget (and confidence) to fill the growbed. Got my LECA pebbles from Mexca and my RD-150 Baba Pots on thursday and set them up in my growbed first thing this morning.

I already have a pot of Vietnamese Mint / Daun Kesum and another pot of Pegaga Kampung growing in the growbed as well as 3 unknown seedlings from previous failed germinations.

Happy to report that the water is much clearer after adding the black shading and what's left of my fish stock is swimming happily.


Enjoy the pics!

Some modification to my setup

I stole some time today to clean my Aquaponics setup and did some modifications.

I have been struggling with algae problem for quite a while, clogging up my filter and have costed me many many almost grown Tilapias. I finally had the time today to add some sun shield to the fish tank cover to minimize sunlight and hopefully algae too.

I have also replaced my big filter with a small aquarium filter placed strategically to the front for easy disassembly and cleaning. If this works, I have some space for a second growbed.

I found a place that sells the clay pallets in bulk but the price is still a little steep for a big sack that looks like a 20 kg sack. That is going to be coming from next month's budget :)

As always, enjoy the pictures.

Dead Tilapias

I found 4 dead Tilapia so far and it was due to my own mistake. Yesterday I was cycling the water where I simultaneously siphon out the water and replacing with new tap water. I usually do a half and half where I leave half of the old tank water and add in half new tap water.

Yesterday I forgot to switch off the tap and it ran the whole night. This morning the tank was crystal clear and the Tilapias started showing signs of distress.

I hope some do survive, tho 2 of the bigger ones has died since this morning.

New tanents

We have new tenants in the main tank. I've harvested all the catfishes, all 30 plus of them and now we have about 12 Red Tilapia growing in there.

Harvest for lunch tomorrow

We're going to have these 4 for lunch tomorrow!

First Harvest of the Catfish!

I decided to harvest 3 catfishes and giving them to a family friend. We will also be harvesting all of them to empty out the main tank ahead of our family vacation in mid May.

Gruesome Discovery!!

I found a dead catfish this morning and it was one of the bigger ones. Fished it out of the tank and found something gruesome!!

The catfish had died trying to swallow a climbing perch!

Talk about biting more than you can chew!!