Steven's Aquaponics

Who would have know that an Old Folks Home located in Seksyen 18 Petaling Jaya is teaming with life, the inmates may be old but it's management is keen on Aquaponics.

Update : Dec 2014
I was informed that Mr. Steven Wee has stop his Aquaponics activity due to commitment on other area of his business.

All sort of Aquaponics set up are there and been tried, from Dutch Buckets to Vertical Towers. Mr Steven Wee the owner are very passionate with aquaponics and I must say it's a very complete setup and ideal for school kids looking for an Aquaponics place to visit.

 Growbed style Aquaponics with seedling and Turmeric.

 These are made from IBC and raised for planting with fish tank located few feet away.

NFT with lots of growth.

 More on NFT below.

 Couple of Aquaponics Malaya members, enjoying the visit with Kopi "O" in hand.

Vertical tower with Pak Choy I think, can't really catch the name.

Tilapia powered Aquaponics

Mr Steven Wee is very passionate with his work, it a show case on what are the potential for Aquaponics in Urban Farming over here in Malaysia.

From this and earlier post on Mr. Perng setup in a Condomonium/Apartment will make an eye opener for more Malaysian to try out Aquaponics filling the empty space and time.

Affnan's Bug Fountain

Another one of my crazy idea ! It's a "Bug Fountain", what is suppose to do is to attract insect at night with a glowing water stream and hopefully wash them down into my fish tank. That's the theory anyway. It could be another blunder :)

This is conceptual, I don't know whether it will work or not. Fountain Head below with LED attached.

Break down of fountain head. That holed down spout may not be needed.

Upper cap, where I drilled a 5mm hole for the LED. I may need to use T10 Blue LED which is more powerful.

Bagful of goodies, LED Amber in colour and some load resistor from previous project. It's hopeless I need Blue LEDs.

Testing LED in the cap, amber and it's not bright enough.

Here it is on test.

And here it is in the dark, no way an insect can see it. May need to do some other way. What if I use those car waterproof light strip

The video below.

Wonder if I dangle this light strip below will attract insect to the water.

Fresh Fingerling - Tilapia & Jelawat

Went to International Aquatics for some fish, this is closest to my place so it's most convenience. My intention was to look for some Crawfish but they don't stock any at the time. So get myself few Tilapia and Jelawat.

Jelawat is Hoven's Carp as it's called in English got a few today for my Aquaponics setup. I will mixed these with Lampam. This fish requires the tank to be covered, they are notorious for jumping.

They labeled these Tilapia as Gold Tilapia, looks like the normal Red Tilapia to me, bought a few and it's slightly bigger than the normal 1" fingerling.

I placed the Tilapia in my CRAFTS feeder tank, here they are in their new home.

These fishes is adding to my present fish due to few fish died due to aerator pump failure.