System Update - aquaponics gone crazy!!!

Hi folks just wanted to upload some photos from today, I'll back date some of the earlier photos from when the system was being built. DECEMBER 12th 2011

Cucumbers growing

Broccoli and Cucumber

Sweet Peppers

Lettuce

Cantaloupe

Lime and Basil

Tomato and Pineapple

More Lettuce grown in fish tank

The system thus far!

Gathering Stuff For System

Made some runs today to get some stuff for the system. Got some mosquito fish to add in the duckweed tank to keep down the mosquito population. Caught them at a lake by the airport. Also bought some gravel for another grow-bed and pipe for the auto siphons.
Went to the beach to get some salt water to start growing plankton to feed the fish. I want to be able to grow the fish food to have them organic.
Here are some pics from today.

Folks I'm Back

Hi all, I haven't updated my blog in a very long time. But I come bearing good news. Thank The Lord I was help to receive about 30-40 Tilapia fingerlings, worms and duckweed from some special friends. I took some pictures of the duckweed and worm bin I created so far, will have to include pictures of the temp system at a later time.
Here are the pictures of the duckweed and worm bin with worms at the bottom.

 I placed  a little bit in the containers to test the growth. This was taken 10pm 9/13th/2011.

Attention Attention!!! Greenhouse is Gone!!

The wind and I took down the greenhouse about 2 days ago. I had one end of the GH closed and the other end open, so when the strong wind shifted it did alot of damage... So I decided to just take it down and start a design to expand easier. I like this setup.. Not as hot, fish tank is covered more from the sun and I can add grow beds easier.

By the way found out that only the big fish is a Tilapia and the small ones are Gambusias a.k.a Mosquitfish. So have to go fishing for more Tilapias.

GOT THE FISH!!!!!!

GOT THE FISH .... Thank God .... Went by the airport yesterday and caught alot of the small fish.... About 200-300 .. maybe 400... A friend of my own caught this big guy. Well he's about 6" long. Next step is to setup an over flow pipe in the fish tank and have it running to the growbeds.



This is just my sucking fish. Thought I would take a pic since he/she was posing.

LATER

Special Project

Hey everyone, I've been working on a special project for the past couple of days... growing rice!! The first set of seedlings are just starting to sprout. I will try to post a pic of it, I don't have a high end camera so plz excuse me. WHAT DO YOU THINK... comment

Progress

Back again with another update... I added the last loop to the greenhouse, so I have another five feet added to my space. I just have to had the front on and we are good to go. Since the last post I setup up the system in the GH. Next step is to build a long grow bed to get the lettuce production underway. The bio filter is running well, I can see the difference in the algae level. Still don't have any tilapia as yet.

Had to add some ducktape to keep the plastic from making so much noise, it is getting very windy. Well check out the pics and make some comments. Thank you for your interest.