diy aquaponics japan | One More Bite The Dust

10.45 in Aquaponics, bite, dust, more, one, ornamental, redo, set, the

diy aquaponics japan

Another Alpha 1000 failed on the newly planted Tomato growbed. It has a hard life anyway running continuously for more than a year for my barrel set.

 Removed the pump and found the rotor shaft broke.

 The shaft has been ground to a needle point and detached from the supporting rubber mount.

 The permanent magnet rotor has deformed probably due to scrubbing the pump inner wall.

 Thats a sharp point

 The rubber mount with broken shaft inside,

Replaced with a spare rotor, no time to change the entire unit. I need to keep an eye on this over the next 2 weeks, may need to replace to a new pump before the festive break next month.

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diy aquaponics plumbing | Few More Strawberry Runners Potted

00.17 in Aquaponics, few, going, more, ornamental, potted, runners, strawberry, tomatoes

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Potted few more today as compared to yesterdays photo below, they should be ready after Chinese New Year.

I have to make sure that they will grow, especially in these heat the chances of survival without parental support is low.

:)

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diy aquaponics tank | Ornamental Aquaponics Set 2nd Prototype

21.04 in 2nd, Aquaponics, ornamental, prototype, set

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After more than 6 month trial of the 1st prototype, today a second unit was made. It is using plastic pot as the fish tank which is larger than earlier porcelain pot.

This set will be further tested for few more months then I will make it for others. That stand is temporary, final product the stand will be outside the fish bowl.

Filling growbed with LECA, before letting it cycle.

Siphon media guard cut to length with extender adjusted to get water level below LECA surface. Water inlet is a simple 15mm PVC piping with 1000 liter per hour pump feeding the set. Water head is about two feed that reduce the pump capacity to about 800 liter/hour.

First and second prototype, undergoing actual test to ensure trouble free operation. Ideal small unit for apartment, condominium, town and link houses. This set is also suitable for growing Strawberry using aquaponics method.

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diy aquaponics manual | Ornamental Regrow

06.44 in Aquaponics, good, looks, ornamental, regrow, set, tomatoes

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Last month I redo the ornamental set then plant Pegaga Gajah or Java pennywort as a simple plants to start with.

It starting to colonize the small growbed and show good growth.

After the other beds had stabilized putting pepper plant on this smaller unit for trial.

Two variety one is the Cili Padi kampung or Capsicum annuum Birds Eye

The next variety is the Indonesian Cili Bara.

Pepper plant are sensitive to water and they may suffer if the drainage is not correctly control. Will post the progress of this trial.

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diy aquaponics video & handbook | Reducing Carbon Foot Print

11.04 in Aquaponics, carbon, foot, ornamental, print, reducing, set, update

diy aquaponics video & handbook

Replacing the single pump with two smaller unit that consume less power and making it simpler for water to the growbed. The current pump that I use has excess capacity that wasted by diverting it away from growbed, this only increase the power requirement of my CRAFTS set.

So the Resun Penguin 4500 has to go out and in its place are two smaller pump that I have laying around doing nothing. Ill use these two pump until it fail and then will replace with a more efficient pump that I can get later on.

The EHK 105 pump above feed the two right growbed and below the Astro 2000 will feed the left two.

I remove the timer and will run the pump 24/7, evaluating to stop running the aerator pump at night if the two pump can supply enough oxygen to the fish.

I may put the aerator on timer as a backup if the water pump fails. However for this next few weeks Ill let it run on photo cell control which only switches it on at dusk.

Will see how it goes.


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diy small indoor aquaponics | Chili Plants showing recovery

08.14 in Aquaponics, chili, for, new, ornamental, plants, pump, recovery, set, showing, testing, the

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Was very hot these last few weeks and it affect even aquaponics plants, especially the newly planted seedlings.

Few Chili plants that I transplanted to the Ornamental set was dying after the move and I had to act fast before its too late.

I have few spare nettings from previous project and they are put to give some shade to the chili plants. Slowly there is sign of recovery and during peak daylight it manage to reduce the intense heat giving time for the seedling to grow.

Some light drizzle this last day or two do help in cooling down the set and reduce overall tenmperature during the day. Still few weeks to go and I hope they survive to give me red hot chili.

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diy aquaponics shrimp | Tomatoes Going Ornamental

20.42 in 15mm, a, Aquaponics, crawfish, going, ornamental, siphon, strainerbell, tank, tomatoes

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Done the mint test for my Ornamental set that uses the 20 mm StrainerBell siphon, on this 15 mm siphon Ornamental set I am planting tomatoes to see how this siphon stand against those deep rooting plants.

This lone strawberry plants removed and pot it separately to make way for fresh tomatoes seedling.

Sown these few weeks back and they are ready to be transplanted to the ornamental set.

Planted it directly to hydroton and bury it as deep as I can.

I put two plants in one planting space, I guest that overdo it since I do four planting space on this small set.

Oh well.., just doing it to the extreme.

Bad photos since it already dusk, will need to snap fresh photo again tomorrow and replace.

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diy aquaponics materials | Testing New Pump For The Ornamental Set

12.24 in Aquaponics, crawfish, for, new, ornamental, pump, set, testing, the, update

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Few types of pump tested on the ornamental set ranging from Alpha 1000, Alpha 500 and the Venusaqua E3302. Since I am trying to use the smallest siphon for the Ornamental set the Alpha 1000 and Venusaqua pump were not suitable due to the large flow rate.

The Alpha 500 works with the small siphon (15mm) but this pump construction make its maintenance high. The rotor is held by a shaft anchored at one end leaving the other unsupported and it is prone to cavitation. However it has been tested for almost eight month and still running. It only requires constant up keeping.

Test a different pump today a Sunsun HJ-600, an 8 watt pump with a flow rate of 600 Liter per hour maximum at zero head.

List of pump parts below.

The HJ-600 Specification.

The HJ-600 output verses height.

This pump has a front dial to adjust output. It does work, on my ornamental set with 15mm siphon I set it to slightly above the minus mark.

Side view, this pump is in 3 section, the front is the intake with the grille and flow adjuster. The mid section where the pump impeller vane and the front spindle support, with the back part house the motor coil and the permanent magnet rotor.

On the body it is rated at 10watt, oh well.. and the height max is 1.5 m, not bad for a small pump.

The other side of the pump.

Mid section after the grille removed.

The front part where the grille and flow adjuster.

To remove the mid section, quarter turn it anti-clockwise and it it detach from the body.

Exposing the impeller and rotor.

The impeller is different from Alpha series where this design reminds me of turtle climbing from a hole.

Shaft is stainless steel, to small for a ceramic but it is significantly larger that anything in its class. With larger spindle shaft pump will last longer.

Rotor removed exposing the housing which has a hols ad the beck for the shaft pivot point.

The back with hold for the shock mount rubber. This design should makes it easier to clean the mousing since we can have a water path right through.

All the attachment came with the pump, not in picture is a filler sponge.

Pump assembled, ready for installation.

Whats left not required for operation.

In the water and will be tested for few months under actual aquaponics setup.

First flush.

Water in rate as at slightly above the minus sign and only after prolong use I will know how good is this pump for this set.

There you go,

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