Sound of Silence Echo

Last post was 13th Dec last year. Seems ages ago. Been busy with work and visiting other aquaponics systems. Notably my mate Rene's. No photos from him.
Also visited "ponic wars" on www.youtubecom . He seems busy with all sorts of stuff.
For me, and why I'm posting this is to let you know I'm moving house in a few months. Found a place with about 50 square meters of flat concrete roof and some shade area suitable for fish tanks. So things will starting to happen again soon.
Cheers for now and happy growing.

Silence

I know. no news. I keep looking at other peoples systems and realize I need to get back and get mine up and running again. Difficult as I am now living in a condo with a balcony which is less than 2 square meters.  Watch this space for developments in due course.
I think to keep this blog going with any use for me until I start up again I need to be adding content on what I see, read and hear about as relates to Thailand aquaponic developments. Lets see how that pans out.

System gone mad

We 're been away as you know. Things have really grown. No dead fight but the system seems to have stabilized and the plants are loving it. A picture tells a thousand works is so true in this case. The blue pipe work is 55mm diameter so you can say the fish are about 110 to 140mm long. Couple of more months before Bar B Q time.

London

Wonderful trip to UK. One of the real highlights was catching up with David, Fred,Chris and Mario. Fanatic Aquaponic"ists..... Not to sure of the terminology. Anyway we called round and were planning on having 15 minutes looking at their system and going on our way. We have been in numerous email contact with David and so you can imagine our excitement in meeting up and chatting about all this. His system is great. Smart, economical, and he used his air pump both to ingest DO and as the circulating system. I.e. as a lift pump. Wonderful idea. Made our system look cumbersome. Already I've been sketching out the modification required when I get back home in November.Suffice to say the 15 minutes ended up as 2 hours + and a non stop discussion on fish, veggies and general 'stuff'. We had taken along a bottle of wine which was forgotten in the excitement. However we did have time to wash down a  few beers. What can I say it was a great and definitely one the high points of out UK trip. We'll be back, but they to were invited to Thailand so lets see who visits who first... (David thats a hint.... :)  )
Photos below show the system and us having our discussions....

Silence................

Been a while so thought this one would wet your appetite...

Actually Wanna took this photo and I suspect it is a catch of fish from our pond. But it did make you look.

We're been busy travelling and working so our project has taken something of a back step. Photos in next  posting...

Progress Update

We've been away for the last few weeks leaning Wanna's niece to feed fish and top up the water etc. During our absence we  did have a  power cut.. She managed to cope and I happy to report both Fish and plants doing well. You can see from the attached photos that we are getting a good crop. The veg is morning glory used a lot in local cooking. Wanna only cuts the tops and leaves the stem to regrow.  So far so good. And the fish continue to grow. We've got some fungus on the leaves but Wanna will be sorting that out in due course....
I can see on next trip home my adding another tank for more starter fish… Will be fun just planning it….Should not be such a big think to add it on.

Progress and Shade Cloth

Not much to report at this time except we seem to be making steady and positive progress. Wanna sent me a few photos and tells me all going OK. She has installed a shade cloth over the fish tanks. Looks like she has done a good job.

No more dead fish since last report and she has been harvesting the morning glory. She did this by cutting the leaves rather than remove the whole plant roots and all. She also added some more small plants. Their growth should give us a good indication of how much we can grow as a ratio between fish weight and plant  numbers.

Shade Cloth to Fish Tanks

Fish Feeding