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  1. SnailPowered

    SnailPowered's Aquaponic Adventures

    I took the basil out of the small tent because it was bolting and becoming annoying and basil is not the focus of what I'm doing here. The big plant is a male and I'm thinking of taking this tent to seed if the AP plant is female because there were some definite casualties among the seeds I was...
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    SnailPowered's Aquaponic Adventures

    This is the little sprout in the 7 foot tent. She is looking really nice. I topped and the branches are starting to come in now. I'm running my lights for 18 hours. I know most run them for 24 but I just decided not to. I may later, this is my first time.
  3. SnailPowered

    SnailPowered's Aquaponic Adventures

    Here's a side view of that plant. The pot is a 4 inch diamater pot at the top for a size reference. Also the black PVC is three inches inner diameter. This shows that I went from the 10 gallon aquarium to a MUCH shorter plastic container. I also reduced the number of fish in this setup to 2.
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    SnailPowered's Aquaponic Adventures

    So this is sphagnum moss to drive the PH down because my PH was up around 6.8 and since I put it in there the plant looks much healthier. It is just a 3 inch diameter PVC pipe that I put slices in with a circular say so they are approximately 1/16 inch in width. This is inside the short tent...
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    SnailPowered's Aquaponic Adventures

    Hell yeah, that is what I am making this for. I'm hoping to have a comprehensive walk through of my journey that people can reasonably follow along. It seems that aquaculture is an extremely valuable way to grow crops and yet I find it hard to get any "info for dummies." I will be taking some...
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    The 3 Industries Killing Legal Weed

    You can't patent cannabis genetics without altering them in a way that most cannabis users wouldn't find acceptable. Monsanto has patented the genetics that they created synthetically through the use of E.coli bacteria (I may be a little off, my wife is a biochemist and she explained it to me)...
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    SnailPowered's Aquaponic Adventures

    This is the old setup. The tent is a 5 foot tall tent, you can see that I am already out of space for the aquaponics to grow at all. The new system is in a 7 foot tall tent so I have at least two feet of height I can accept, maybe a little more if I start finding ways to hang the lights closer...
  8. SnailPowered

    Aquaponics- the Dream build.

    Click that entire sentence. It was just the word here originally. It is kind of hard to see. I thought it would be blue.
  9. SnailPowered

    Aquaponics- the Dream build.

    I made another thread, I will go back and see if I can answer questions here but I thought it would be a bit cleaner if questions for that setup remain there. If not, then I just suck. Here is the link to the thread, hope to share my experience with you all!
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    SnailPowered's Aquaponic Adventures

    I'm waiting for my LED light fixture to be delivered, it is supposed to be here tomorrow. Then hopefully I can hang the light and move the plants into the grow bed. I have three plants that will be making the migration. I don't have any more pictures at the moment. Should I add the pics from...
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    SnailPowered's Aquaponic Adventures

    In that last picture you can see the clear grow bed that I was going to use. That was a bad idea because light will begin to grow algae inside your grow bed and it can start to smell bad. That is the worst problem that I have heard but no one wants to have their garden smelling like a swamp I...
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    SnailPowered's Aquaponic Adventures

    After doing research I decided to build a system out of a 10 gallon aquarium. Lots of design attempts and failed tries at stuff and I finally ended up with an undergravel filter, a 120gph pump, a 10 gallon plastic tub from Lowe's and about 60 lbs of aquarium gravel for grow media. The problem...
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    SnailPowered's Aquaponic Adventures

    This thread was borne from THIS thread, which has videos and the stuff that got me interested in the aquaponic idea. I moved to Washington State a few months ago and have been using MMJ. The prices are about the same as what it always cost to get cannabis even when I was in HS so it has really...
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    Aquaponics- the Dream build.

    I have finally put together a system or two. I have pictures I can share, should I put them here or start a different thread? I have two tents, and I currently have two systems set up but I want to get rid of the smaller system that I set up first.
  15. SnailPowered

    aquarium plant additive work ok?

    Glad to help! Picture looks like it is going pretty well :D
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    World of tanks anyone?

    OMFG I'm so addicted to this game it is BAD! I have four Tier 10s and was actually getting paid gold to be in my clan lol. I'm currently in the process of moving so I haven't been on as much lately. I haven't played the XBox edition, only the PC one. King Arthur, are you playing on a laptop? I...
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    How do you clean your glass?

    I use iso on all kind of stuff and have even made explosives with it then looked at them under a microscope. It sounds like your lab was buying some crappy ISO. I'm talking the normal store bought stuff. We were practicing making the explosives similar to the way it is made in a clandestine lab...
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    Aquaponics- the Dream build.

    Calcium can block K and Phosphorous uptake of plants though. Iron is just something that has blood in it basically as far as I can tell. The videos I posted on page 1 show plants that have been growing without any iron added outside a bloody fish food, once every two weeks. If you are running...
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    Aquaponics- the Dream build.

    The more I research it seems that the PH will simply never be "ideal" for cannabis in an AP system. That said, I'm looking to grow medication, not win the cannabis cup :D
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