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 Still carrying on.  

We cleaned out the site office system a few days back.  Quite a nice group of Tilapia. Gave them to our Chine contractor.  They had them for dinner.

 Then we refreshed the tanks with some baby catfish.

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Just as a memory. Added the system we set up on site.  Quite prolific.

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A couple of months back I made a new Tote system for my mate Rob.  Seems to be going really well.  Tilapia are growing as are the veggies. Bar B Q soon.....He set it up on his back veranda.  Its on wheels for can be turned towards sunlight etc and for ease of maintenance etc.  All very cool.  Needs to say he's hooked. 

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Not really posting any more. The two tanks continue to jog along as it were. So really using this post as a diary entry.

Had a few cat fish jump out the tanks a couple of nights ago. We had had heavy rain and lightening so I think they considered it time to move on. Well being on a balcony on the 4th floor of an apartment block is not a good place to start.

Rescued 4 and two died. Sadly one of the dead ones was the biggest. 

Yesterday added some horizontal string lines to support the tomatoes and morning glory.  Time for some new plants.

This one died.....:-)

She lived......

Ghana Ponics 17 progress

Again just a quick record of the way things are growing. What's been especially interesting is that after we cleaned out the stone some time back the tomato plant was replanted.  I had assumed it would be OK.  But not to be. It slowly withered away, but even after 4 weeks it still refuses to die. It has been hanging on and the top leaves are not dry and do not appear to be dead. I wonder if there was so much stress in the move that whilst it did not die it is not really going to recover either. I'm planning on leaving it a few more weeks and then see, either it will improve or we will have remove it. Decisions, decisions....

As for the seedlings, they are doing fine.  I took a couple of the young tomato plants over to the community school project and planted them in the system. I will go back and check on Friday how they are doing.

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After the clean up last week I am still having difficulty getting the syphon to flush properly.  Need to have a good look at this this evening.

As for new seeds. Well we added some Chinese cabbage (Bak Choi) and some tomato seeds last Sunday.  Progress seems OK at this stage. The old tomato plant has not completely died but is very need giving up.  I do hope it can hang on but lets wait and see.  Fish are fine.  Do wish they would grow a bit more.....

Ghana Ponics 15 Tank Clean Up

The syphon seems to have given up the ghost. I've tried reducing the input water flow to the grown bed, increasing the flow to the flow bed.  Makes no difference. I can only assume I could try and make the air bubble areas at the top of the syphon a big smaller.  That's tomorrows job...

However what occurred to me is that the bed is so full of old weeds etc that is needed a full clear out.

Accordingly this morning we removed the few remaining plants and then took out the gravel.  Very dirty.  Lot of old organic waste. We washed the stone and replaced it. Replanted the tomato and pepper plants and added some seeds. Also added a few worms.  Not sure how effective they will be but certainly cannot do any harm.

Before...............

These are Morning Glory Roots

These are Morning Glory Roots.....

Moring Glory again being pulled out by a fat slob........

Very clogged up gravel

Clean Grow bed area

Looking good...

The Boss hiding and providing final touches.....

Adding a few worms...

Worms in their new home....