So I may have been a little off on my calculations as far as water goes since the 8 gallon buckets are not completely full I have a estimate there probably 7 gallons the reservoir which I thought was 55 gallons is 45 gallons which is not all the way full... so I'd say I'm probably at around 90 gallons
one thing you can try which would not cost too much money would be to buy a wort chiller (homebrewing supply) and run your chiller isolated from the nute res. You'd need a smaller tote/container and a smaller pump to run thru the chiller and out to the wort chiller and back. Set the chiller at maybe 55 to 60F and that might cool down your res more. Something to consider if you still need to chille your setup.
Just went to see how the temp was after cleaning filter it went down to 68
problem solved!
Not really still working on my nutrients
at least you could always have a fish fry, invite some friends for fish and beers and go back to regular nutes too if the AP doesn't pan out. LOL
True but I think I would probably put them in a live bait well and use of the catch bigger fish and then have the fish fry lol
Hey man thanks for your input I appreciate it my PPM's are a little bit over 500 at the moment, at first the night after I posted the original post things went down help kind of quick the leaves got real yellow at least 50% of them , I plan on adding some more nutrients tonight to try to get it up in the 600 range I know it's a jump from five instead of doing 50 ppm's at a time but I'm kind a running out of time and so anything that may help if I notice any new Burn I will dilute The mix I do have some decent size buds on this plant now I will post an updated picture tonight when my lights come on.as for your reservoir smelling like fish that's actually a good thing if you are using fish Lol, aquaponics yield great crops and is also all natural unfortunately because I did not let the system run for six months and give the bacteria proper time to colonize I am in this current situation so far none of my fish have died since I have Added these nutrients. I am using for Florious grow bloom and Flora bloom to raise the ppms, originally I added some kool bloom but was told not to lol
I've been keeping my pH at 6.2 it hasn't really done anything
I know I prematurely put the plants and I should have waited to six months to let the bacteria colonize, I have like 13-15 talapia and 5-6 gold fish in the Rez, fish are growing my ppm is now at 570 an ph is at 6.1 (just checked) I think the plants are doing pretty good considering what they want to and I think I should be able to produce a decent yield , I feed the hell out of the fish to. Oh yea I don't use a filter , just I mesh screen to protect the pump
Yes but it must have needed more time to flow through the system