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. 

Perng Leng Chuah High Rise Aquaponics System

This setup belong to Mr. Perng Leng Chuah of Aquaponics Malaya group, it is in a Condo setting on its balcony. This setup was done in June 2013 and has been running with a single water pump and an aeration unit.

It is a small setup, with 2 growbed over a fish tank. This is what we consider a basic media base setup but sufficient to provide all the knowledge of a bigger sets.

Aquaponics is one method of planting that is suitable on high rise building and fish that comes with it is an added bonus. It's a good way to let kids get involved in planting and fish keeping even in with limited planting space. These next few photos is a joy to see, when we could give our children these activity.

So those living in high rise don't let space hamper your ability to plant and fish keeping, Aquaponics is the way to go in Urban Surrounding.

Photo courtesy of Perng Leng Chuah, check out his post in Aquaponics Malaya Forum