Build Your Own 4 X 16 Aquaponics System 7.wmv

In this one I'm just going to show you how to level the gravel The system is just starting the drain so it's just about to trigger the flood or the drain cycle. But if you look you can see that the table is covered in water and so what you want is okay so here it just triggered the drain cycle We threw a little bit of duck weed in here, it's not very much, it was over in the other system. and it's doing pretty much what I was hoping. That is, it's running around but there are little pieces of it that are getting carried down, so we'll dial that in, in a little bit The table, you can see, when you have the depth correct the top of the rock will stay dry so up here is more what you would like or even one inch deeper than that. Right now we're washing the rocket out so we have the rock down lower than it will be when the table is running. so that the water floods all the way over the top of the rock and we can get the rock all wash clean and then after that's finish we'll add a little more rock like about one inch of rock on top of the surface so that the top of the rock stays dry. That's pretty much how things are going. We're getting ready, it's cycling now and we're starting to grow some duck weed. although we'll go harvest some from a local creek to get some fresh and the pond is on its way toward filling up and that's it hopefully be getting cycled here within a week or so enough to add some fish. We just added some ammonia direct to bring the ammonia level up and then that will allow the bacteria to begin colonizing well we did do one other thing which if you're just starting you'll have to wait for the bacteria to colonize, but we sprinkled some of the water and hydroton from the other grow bed, the great little aquaponics system system sprinkled that around in here to try to help speed up the colonization of the micro organisms and we'll see if that worked if it doesn't it should take a couple of weeks and if it helped, maybe it'll speed up and be done in a week there it is the system is up and running and now we just need to get all of the microbes colonized and then off we go