Hello this is Jonathan from Melbourne Aquaponics.
In this video today I would like to talk about a mistake that I made few months ago in one
of my aquaponics setups, and that’s the reason why even today is still not growing
very well (one of them).
If you look behind me you can see that the 2 growbeds here are very green and you see
that one of them is very poor in terms of plants growth.
In this video I will explain you what I did, what is the big mistake I made and how you
are going to avoid it.
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So if you are watching this channel for a while, if you have subscribed to this channel
you know that I am dealing with those Aquaponics setups.
By dealing with those Aquaponics set-ups I have to maintain a good PH.
PH needs to stay around seven and to do so we add some things into the Aquaponics setup,
we add some Minerals, some Calcium to basically increase the PH all the time because the PH
naturally decrease into the Aquaponics setup.
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It's hard to keep your vegetables Strong, Green and healthy and this video is really
linked to the topic that we are going to develop today.
Here into this Aquaponics set-up what I do is that I add some Egg Shells, I add some
Sea Shells and some of the Mineral powders to maintain the PH at Seven.
Now it can be a bit time consuming sometimes to get some Egg shells and Sea shells and
to crush the Sea shells you know.
So one day I was walking on the beach and I could see on the beach all those little
particles or piece of shells that were on the beach…
And actually I will show you, I took the pieces of shells and I put them in a bag.
And that's what I got here.
So if you look in this bag you've got lot of little shells.
They are broke down and what I did I just took basically this whole volume straight
from the ground because I thought it is full of seashells and I thought if I put this bag
(you know I've just put it into a stocking) and I thought if I put this bag under the
outlets of the water flow of the Pump, it would basically just dissolve the shells that's
what I do normally when I collect the shells by themselves.
The problem and what I didn't realize is that here inside there is a mix of different particles
, different rocks some of them are actually not shells.
They are some rocks of different kinds.
The issue I'm facing is that the day when I put this thing in the system.
The same day I could see that all the vegetables were looking a bit down and during the week
I lost all of them, they all died.
Fortunately the fish didn't have any problem with it but I lost all of my vegetables and
this was probably more than six months ago and I still have a set of that is very weak
if you look at the vegetables they are not growing away that tall.
So you see by a simple little mistake like that, it took me five minutes to make this
bag and to put it in the set up and now six months later I still have problems to grow
vegetables.
So obviously into this bag there is something that is definitely not good for your aquaponics
setup.
I am not sure what it is but I suspect that I got some copper inside this bag, maybe just
by maybe just a thin granule of copper it's enough you know copper is very bad, and I
mean at high density it can have a very negative impact on the vegetables growth, on the plants
growth.
If you got an aquarium, the aquarium shops sell some special liquids to kill all the
algae into the aquarium and those liquids most of the time they are made from copper,
they are copper solutions because all the plants, aquatic plants or algae don't really
like high concentrations of copper and that's probably what I got here.
So in this video what I want to tell you basically is don't put anything in your setup if you
don't know what it is .You know the media, you need to know what is into your media but
then if you add some minerals or if you add something to increase of PH make sure that
you know one hundred percent of what is in it and don't just add some things that you
find on the beach such as what I did.
If you collect the shells one by one you know what it is you identify it.
So you know that in the shells you got a combination of calcium, or Silicon, Sometimes you got
some aragonite, a lot of very very good minerals but here, when you take a big bucket of little
rocks basically that are on the shore, even if you see that most of it is particles of
seashells, you got some other particles that you don't know what it is.
So don’t do this kind of things and whatever you put in your system, make sure you know
what it is and you're not going to introduce any metals.
You know that in aquaponics metals can be very toxic so always stay away from metals,
if you have pipes and everything, keep the pipes in plastic and even the tape that is
one of the big mistakes that I see very often, people who put tape in metal in the aquaponics
setup.
That is definitely not something that you want.
You want everything in plastic that is food grade and where you will not have any migration
from the plastic to the water.
But also, make sure that you don't add anything to increase the PH that you don't know what
it is.
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Have a good crop!