Aquaponics Round 2

Elliott and I spent all of Friday afternoon fixing up the aquaponics set-up. I had tried to clean it some without draining it, but it just wasn't enough. So Elliott pulled out the three fish that were still living there (one feeder goldfish and two tilapia) and climped in to scrub it out.





Scrub, scrub, scrub



The Plant Bed
Meanwhile, I layed out where the netpots would be. They are on approximately 5" spacing.





Whiteboard marker wipes off easily



Using a hole saw to cut out the styrofoam

This evening I spent some time making little plant markers and then planting. I wanted more than one of several varieties, so I tried to split them between the hydroton media and the rockwool so that I have a somewhat controlled experiment. I think I will try perlite in the remaining baskets just to see which of the three works best.