Affnan's Aquaponics - Picking Tomatoes
pH check 12 Dec 2016
I was worried due to rainy season water may turn acidic. Looks like the limestones doing it job pretty well.
UiTM Perlis drop by for a visit.
Very enthusiastic group, and it's always a pleasure to give some knowledge to those who are keen in setting up their own aquaponics system.
Hopefully with this exposure, they are able to expand their current method of aquaponics setup to include potted gutterbed flood & drain style.
Affnan's Aquaponics - 27th Nov 2016 Update
Affnan's Aquaponics - Pineapple Crown & Organic Pesticide
Earlier today, bought these from farmer's market. Will plant the crown on dirt and aquaponics.
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Affnan's Aquaponics - Fermented Tilapia After Two Weeks
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Affnan's Aquaponics - Pineapple Crown
Getting few crown to plant, these pineapple are too small to sell outside this township so they are selling at the local farmer's market for cheap at 4 or 5 to RM 10.00 (USD 2.50)
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Affnan's Aquaponics - Organic Pesticide At Farmer's Market
Organic pesticide the locals use for their crop.
Recommended to mix with water and only spray once a week the most. If sprayed too often the pest will be immune to these spray.
Each two liter bottle sold for RM 10.00 the smaller bottle 500 ml is RM5.00
Basic Aquaponics - How to Raise Water pH with Limestones
So with the pH test kit form API, I tested water and got the result of pH 6.0 on 3rd October 2016 as below video
pH water test after five days of using limestone, it increase to 6.5 pH on 8th Oct 2016
12 December 2016 - Update
I was worried due to rainy season water may turn acidic. Looks like the limestones doing it job pretty well.
Affnan's Aquaponics - River Barb Fingerling
Catching all the fingerling to place in my left return tank. After 3 weeks in the feeder tank they will be hard to catch.
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Basic Aquaponics - Ph Test After 4 Weeks With Limestones
Four weeks after I place the limestones looks like the ph had stabilized at 7.0
I will continue testing ph lever once in 2 weeks then at a longer interval.
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Affnan's Aquaponics - Fermented/Pickle Fish After A Week
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Affnan's Aquaponics - 26th Oct 2016 Updates
A quick update on my set today, what's happening to the fishes and plants.
I am sure some reader might had notice these last one month or so, I has been producing many videos and blog post.
The reason for this is to help new comer to aquaponics to start in a simplest possible way and at the same time giving visual encouragement to those starting up.
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Affnan's Aquaponics - Making Fermented Tilapia (Pekasam)
This is how I make pickled Tilapia or Pekasam in Malay, I had made a video on same topic few years back
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Affnan's Aquaponics - Netting All Tilapia To Replace With Barb
Catching all Tilapia to replace with river barb It has been more than 8 years I'm using tilapia in my aquaponics set.
It's about time to totally change to different fish. Comparatively barb give more nutrient to plants than tilapia altho they eat much less.
I have 300 barb fingerling in the feeder tank, and will start to place them in the left return tank.
The smaller tilapia I will make pickle fish.
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Basic Aquaponics - ph Water Check After 3 Weeks
Looks like the ph value stabilized at 7.0, last week it was at this value too.
Suspect there is no more acidity for stones to react will need to check again next week to confirm.
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Basic Aquaponics - Spraying Plants with Pesticide
I use organic pesticide most of the time, only under extreme situation I am forced to use chemical pesticide.
Basic Aquaponics - ph Check After 2 Weeks
Ph check after almost 2 weeks initial value of 6.0 and today's at 7.0.
Not bad for a low cost alternative.
Basic Aquaponics - Water Feed With Saddle Valve
Basic Aquaponics - ph Water check after 5 days.
Basic Aquaponics - Limestones Aeration
Putting aeration stone at bottom of the pot will give better circulation of water to the limestone.
This way it will speed up reaction of the acidic water with the stones.
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Goodbye Samsung - Your Phone Don't Meet My Requirement Anymore
I am switching to Huawei, disappointed with Samsung that made it difficult to use external SD.
Left is my Honor 8 with 64 GB internal on the right daughter's Huawei P9+ Limited. Superb dual sim phones and I can use the external SD.
I do complete video capture, editing and blogpost on the phones. All the videos are now done on the honor 8.
Using Cinema FV5 for video capture, Power Director Cyberlink for edit and Blogaway Pro for blogspot and youtube direct posting.
Now I can make more video :)
Goodbye Samsung, you are chasing loyal customer away.
Basic Aquaponics - Water ph Adjust Using Limestone
Earlier checked aquaponics system water is about 6.1 ph. I need to boost this higher to around 6.5 to 7.0.
Low ph is acidic, plant cutting will rot before they can take root. This happens to Lemongrass and Pineapple crown that I'm testing.
Best to put the stones in pots so that it can be easily retrieve if needed.
My previous setup was using limestones before I switched to hydroton. Limestone is alkaline and hydroton us neutral.
Basic Aquaponics - Water ph Check
Checking ph with tester solution, my aquaponics system water is 6.1 ph.
Will adjust to buffer it higher using limestones.
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Basic Aquaponics - Cuttings As Fish Feed
Sambung Nyawa plant cuttings can be use to feed Tilapia. Other than this they will eat Cassava or Tapioca leaves too.
Using cuttings from the Aquaponics will reduce dependency on fish feed and leaving decomposed vegetation in the fish tank will help in lowering ph if it is high.
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Basic Aquaponics - Sweet Leave Plant Propagation
This plant is known in Malay as Pucuk Manis in English it's Sweet Leave or also known as Goose Berries Plant.
Require high nutrient to do well, recommendef on a fully matured growbed. This plant is use as vegetable cooked in coconut milk or just water and onion with spice.
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Basic Aquaponics - Caution of the Pacu Fish
Some how a couple of Pacu fish manage to make their way into the feeder tank and within a short time has damage the pump electrical wires.
Luckily nothing serious happens, the pump was replaced by a spare. Need to get a new pump to change.
Something must be attracting this fish to electrical wires.
Pacu
Pacu fish has grown big, this fish requires lots of dissolve oxygen otherwise they will go crazy.
Lack of oxygen they will jump out of the tank.
Palm size pacu, still long way to go.
Wonder how it taste like ?
Basic Aquaponics - Spinach Seedling Transplant
Spinach seedling transplant using the flooded growbed method to ensure they are not damaged.
The growth is not uniform, those too small will have to wait for a few more days.
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Basic Aquaponics - Strawberry Propagation
Strawberry propagation using runners is widely done by home enthusiast. This is the easiest way to get few plants for your trials.
Directly to hydroton pots will ensure young strawberry plants starts early in the new medium. It will take root in a week and usually ready to be detache from the mother plant in about 30 to 40 days.
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Basic Aquaponics - Sweet Basil Propagation
Sweet Basil or English Basil quite difficult to grow in the Equatorial heat, I'll try to propagate this from cuttings.
I had done many Thai Basil or Holy Basil without problem. Let see if this will survive the heat.
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