mashaAllah, the ideas you present here are amazing. Being with you throughout this endeavor with the trails and errors, we are learning a lot. Thank you. What amaze me is that the valve you made down there near the water is that it provide additional oxygen for fish.
i have a suggestion, it is just I am not sure how to present it here. But in short, if there a way to use silica sand for filtration of the water by placing a small pot of silica under the water outlet, beside other pots I mean. Just a thought crossed my mind.
It can be done, but due to the fine particle of the sand it will be blocked easily. Alternatively some people put old sock at the water outlet to act as filter.
Make sure to measure the water hardness values, that is GH and KH. The ideal GH value is between 8 and 12, and the ideal KH value is 8. You can test it with a drop testkit, but do not use color strips because you need an accurate measurement. Plants and rainwater deplete the GH minerals such as magnesium and calcium, and they also deplete the KH that is CO2. If those water hardness values are not correct the PH can start to rise and it creates all sorts of other issues, such as algae growth, high PH, yellowing plants that stop growing, unhappy fish, unhappy microbes. Always correct the GH first because when you correct the GH then the KH will go up as well, but you have to check both separately, and never use GH+ and KH+ at the same time and not sooner than two weeks from each other. Always follow the prescription on the package from the mineral additives as accurate as possible. Measure regularly to prevent major issues instead of trying to fix them when it is too late. Especially after a rain event it is important to check the values. I would also advise you to read something about the subject, because if you do not add the mineral additives correctly you can make the issues even worse. But if you do it correctly the microbes will do well, and also the fish and the plants. There are fast working but less long working additives, and there are also clay mineral additives that have a slower and longer effect that will help to keep the GH value at level. But make sure that you are well informed about how to add those minerals.
Thanks for the good info. I currently monitoring the system, it is yet to mature. On ph usually my system will automatically maintain around 7 to 7.5. Water hardness and ph have some effect on nutrient absorption, I’ll monitor closely.
@@affnanaquaponics It is good to monitor closely. But just measuring the PH is not enough. You can only keep the PH level correct when the GH and KH is correct. And you can only correct the GH and KH level by measuring and by adding those calcium and magnesium minerals and the CO2. If the water does not have enough minerals and CO2 the plants will stop growing and the microbes will stop doing their work. And the PH can go up far too much in a single night. So just monitoring the PH is not enough, because by the time that you measure a PH that is too high you are already too late. Because that is an indication that the plants did not get the mineral nutrients that they need for a much longer period of time. And when you only add the minerals when the PH is already too high the plants and the microbes have already suffered too much and then they will need time to recover from that. Which can take a month, or even longer. And in the worst case plants can even die completely. So it is best practice to measure the water hardness regularly well before the PH is too high. And to keep it at the correct value at a weekly bases in order to prevent PH fluctuations. Some people try to lower the PH with acids, but that doesn't work because then they are only fighting the symptoms, not the cause of the issue. A couple of hours later the PH will be wrong again if they do not fix the cause of the issue. 👍
@@insAneTunA Nitrification process will cause the water to be acidic, the ph going lower than 7. In my system the water will maintain around 7 to 7.5 automatically without me doing anything. During early days of Aquaponic I do monitor the ph, but after I got the system set correctly, now I don’t monitor ph anymore.. because it will stay at the value as mentioned without any problem.
@@affnanaquaponics The PH will not stay the same when the minerals that I mentioned get depleted by the plants and the rain. Then the PH will go up with 100% certainty.
@@insAneTunA From my trial, in my system due to certain condition that I did the ph will remain constant at 7 to 7.5 this I accidentally discovered more than 10 years ago. On magnesium is easy enough to add, just a spoon full monthly will do great. CO2 is not needed in Aquaponic water because nitrification bacteria need O2, not CO2 to do their job. Nitrification is an aerobic process which needs oxygen not carbon dioxide. O2 is easy enough to add, just provided aeration, either by introducing air or agitation of the water as I did with the saddle valve water jets. All in all, this system is very small and the monitoring is different from medium size set up. The plants also will depends on how much nutrients able to be produce. From all my experiment I never worried about the ph going up, since nitrification process naturally will cause the water to goes acidic. Low enough the nitrification process will stop. That’s why in most aquaponics system many practitioners add carbonate to neutralise the acid, they never add acid to the system. I myself never ever add carbonate or acid to my system and the ph will maintain at 7 to 7.5 it stays at this value until I no longer bother to measure. However, I an not sure how it is done in an hydroponic system because I never practice it.
mashaAllah, the ideas you present here are amazing. Being with you throughout this endeavor with the trails and errors, we are learning a lot. Thank you. What amaze me is that the valve you made down there near the water is that it provide additional oxygen for fish.
Thank you.
i have a suggestion, it is just I am not sure how to present it here. But in short, if there a way to use silica sand for filtration of the water by placing a small pot of silica under the water outlet, beside other pots I mean. Just a thought crossed my mind.
It can be done, but due to the fine particle of the sand it will be blocked easily.
Alternatively some people put old sock at the water outlet to act as filter.
Salam Abg, pernah try ke airlift pump? ...pakai airpump dan airstone utk tolak air ke atas .Airlift susah nak sumbat , Probably dpt benefit 2 in 1
W’salam, pernah guna tetapi memerlukan kuasa angin yg sangat kuat untuk menaikan air banyak mencukupi sistem aquaponik.
Make sure to measure the water hardness values, that is GH and KH. The ideal GH value is between 8 and 12, and the ideal KH value is 8. You can test it with a drop testkit, but do not use color strips because you need an accurate measurement. Plants and rainwater deplete the GH minerals such as magnesium and calcium, and they also deplete the KH that is CO2. If those water hardness values are not correct the PH can start to rise and it creates all sorts of other issues, such as algae growth, high PH, yellowing plants that stop growing, unhappy fish, unhappy microbes. Always correct the GH first because when you correct the GH then the KH will go up as well, but you have to check both separately, and never use GH+ and KH+ at the same time and not sooner than two weeks from each other. Always follow the prescription on the package from the mineral additives as accurate as possible. Measure regularly to prevent major issues instead of trying to fix them when it is too late. Especially after a rain event it is important to check the values.
I would also advise you to read something about the subject, because if you do not add the mineral additives correctly you can make the issues even worse. But if you do it correctly the microbes will do well, and also the fish and the plants.
There are fast working but less long working additives, and there are also clay mineral additives that have a slower and longer effect that will help to keep the GH value at level. But make sure that you are well informed about how to add those minerals.
Thanks for the good info. I currently monitoring the system, it is yet to mature. On ph usually my system will automatically maintain around 7 to 7.5.
Water hardness and ph have some effect on nutrient absorption, I’ll monitor closely.
@@affnanaquaponics It is good to monitor closely. But just measuring the PH is not enough. You can only keep the PH level correct when the GH and KH is correct. And you can only correct the GH and KH level by measuring and by adding those calcium and magnesium minerals and the CO2.
If the water does not have enough minerals and CO2 the plants will stop growing and the microbes will stop doing their work. And the PH can go up far too much in a single night.
So just monitoring the PH is not enough, because by the time that you measure a PH that is too high you are already too late. Because that is an indication that the plants did not get the mineral nutrients that they need for a much longer period of time. And when you only add the minerals when the PH is already too high the plants and the microbes have already suffered too much and then they will need time to recover from that. Which can take a month, or even longer. And in the worst case plants can even die completely.
So it is best practice to measure the water hardness regularly well before the PH is too high. And to keep it at the correct value at a weekly bases in order to prevent PH fluctuations.
Some people try to lower the PH with acids, but that doesn't work because then they are only fighting the symptoms, not the cause of the issue. A couple of hours later the PH will be wrong again if they do not fix the cause of the issue. 👍
@@insAneTunA Nitrification process will cause the water to be acidic, the ph going lower than 7. In my system the water will maintain around 7 to 7.5 automatically without me doing anything. During early days of Aquaponic I do monitor the ph, but after I got the system set correctly, now I don’t monitor ph anymore.. because it will stay at the value as mentioned without any problem.
@@affnanaquaponics The PH will not stay the same when the minerals that I mentioned get depleted by the plants and the rain. Then the PH will go up with 100% certainty.
@@insAneTunA From my trial, in my system due to certain condition that I did the ph will remain constant at 7 to 7.5 this I accidentally discovered more than 10 years ago.
On magnesium is easy enough to add, just a spoon full monthly will do great.
CO2 is not needed in Aquaponic water because nitrification bacteria need O2, not CO2 to do their job. Nitrification is an aerobic process which needs oxygen not carbon dioxide.
O2 is easy enough to add, just provided aeration, either by introducing air or agitation of the water as I did with the saddle valve water jets.
All in all, this system is very small and the monitoring is different from medium size set up. The plants also will depends on how much nutrients able to be produce.
From all my experiment I never worried about the ph going up, since nitrification process naturally will cause the water to goes acidic. Low enough the nitrification process will stop. That’s why in most aquaponics system many practitioners add carbonate to neutralise the acid, they never add acid to the system.
I myself never ever add carbonate or acid to my system and the ph will maintain at 7 to 7.5 it stays at this value until I no longer bother to measure.
However, I an not sure how it is done in an hydroponic system because I never practice it.