Veggie filter ..

[mel]

Just cleaned mine all out and bought the water cress again

I will post up the Nitrate results before planting and again in a few weeks to see if we have a reduction over the summer .

Just need my wife to come home with the camera i think she has run off ..lol..

[mel]

Tip of the day .....

Don,t plant up your veggie filter with leaf cuttings at 25 degs as they will be withered and dead in one hour .

I,ve put the second bag semi submerged untill they start to show some roots from the leaf axis

I expected them to wither at first but should have known better ..lol..

[Casey]

I've cleaned mine out as it breeds blanket weed! Still no plants yet, ill get there in the end.

[mel]

I've cleaned mine out as it breeds blanket weed! Still no plants yet, ill get there in the end.

Mine was getting the same , pond none in there .

I,m hopeing to get good coverage of the surface area quickly to cut the light out .

[mel]

Months late as usual


Some pics of what i have done today , the tray with the big water cress in was planted when i first posted up , the Nitrate tests were nearly the same as my tap water ....virtually nil on the Api test kit .

It was originally planted up with a £1 bag of Sainsburys water cress .



Basket jobbie done on 27 th May with todays growth ...




Root systym under the floating filter grid...




Tray out for veggie filter cleaning...



Our dog looking for koi pellets as usuaul




Cleaned out with the hoover




Another floating basket made ..









Planted up with cuttings off the original basket ..





Theres then going to be 4 anoxic filter baskets under the trays . Basically i know after 3 - 4 years what my filter systym can handle so its just a play really to see if i can improve things





Any comments so far good or bad please

[mel]

Forgot to say the cost is only 2 x 3 mtr lengths at £1.64 each for the solvent weld pipe (nearly enough left to do another one ) plus 4 x £1.45 for the connectors and a fiver for the filter grid ...all local so no postage and the water cress as said is £1.00 per bag .

[Casey]

Nice idea there Mel

[welsh_kai_boy]

Looking good Mel, what cat litter did you use?

[AndyJ]

I love the floating tray idea

[Casey]

Won't your cat get a wet bum?