Today, I had upgraded the flow of water to using hose connectors.
This afternoon, I went to the local river (canal) near Lavender MRT to catch some Tilapia (aka Japanese fish) but unfortunately only caught some small common molly fish instead.
I had notice 3 dead Tilapia floated past me and I find it rather weird, it seems that the water may be too hot for them or because of the industrial waste?
Anyway, below is my latest video on the upgrade to my Aquaponic system since the last video.
This is a upgrade to my Aquaponic Growth System that I had posted in “My Project” page.
14 Feb 2009
Today I made a small innovation upgrade to my Aquaponic Indoor Grow System, I realized a very serious problem of small fishes or shrimps being sucked into the water pump…causing lot’s of pain both in my heart and pocket…($_$)
In order to reduce more unnecessary death I had decided to find a way to do the following requirements.
Water Pump remain powerful to suck up the fish waste as fertilizer to the plants above.
Today I will begin to set up an Indoor Hydroponic using a slightly modified design from garden girl tv version.
Firstly, I had mentally drawn up a plan and decide what items to purchase and the current design is to have a pump to pump water from the fish tank below up 2 meters to the highest point and let the water flow from right to left in a plastic grow tank before draining to another grow tank and down back to the fish tank.
This is what I had set up in 2 hours time for today
The following is the list of items that I had bought for this project
Metal rack that I had bought at SGD $148
Metal Racks that I need to install myself hee
Water pump motor and accessories with tubes and connectors at SGD $135.
Energy Saving Water Pump
Two IKEA Snail box at SGD $12 each
IKEA Snail Box
Two 55 Watt PL Lights for fish tank
I already have 3 x 2 feet fish tanks at home so I can re-use one of the fish tank for this project
The task for tomorrow is to drain my existing fish tank and catch the shrimps to migrate them to another fish tank which will take about forever haha!.
12 Feb 2009
I had finally finished catching all the cherry shrimps (hundreds of them) and migrated them to another fish tank.
Draining the tank makes the tank lighter for me to carry but it’s still straining my back slightly!
I almost hurt my back carrying it onto the bottom rack.
Adding the water must add a few drops of anti-chlorine solution to remove the chlorine from our tap water, using some “crystal clear” solution to make the dust settle down in the water I started to drill some holes at the bottom of the IKEA Snail Boxes.
Tied some raffia strings to the new 55 Watt Lights to the metal racks on top of the 2 snail buckets for growing the vegetables.
Lights Tied up & ready to grow stuff!!
I will be catching some Tilapia fish (aka Japanese fish) that shit a lot and put in the fish tank so I can use it’s fish waste as fertilizer for my vegetable plants.
Found this video very educational on D.I.Y. (Do It Yourself) food growing or gardening indoor, this can be a very potential way to grow food indoor regardless of land space.
If you have a living room full of concrete, why not try this to grow some nice vegetables & it also great for rearing fish too!
The video is from gardengirltv.com which I believe will help many people out there who wants to prepare for sustainability indoor but don’t know how.
