Observations
- Good morning! The fish are active this morning, but not in a weird way. They want to be fed, but I have to restrain myself for the sake of the water and the tank. Feeding them will only exasperate the ammonia. They will survive a couple of days without food.
- My readings have the ammonia steady at 2.0 ppm. There is nothing significant about the others.
- The adopted plants in their foster growbed seem fine.
- The battery-operated bucket aerator is working fine.
- I covered the tank in order to limit any proliferation of algae that could rob the fish of oxygen as well as other disasters. For now, it's just a white board on the front and a VanGogh book on the back. I'll get fancier when time permits.
Analysis
- I can't do much at this point. The tank is on Ammonia Watch. I'm going to check the levels between two and three times per day to prevent the fish from being too affected by it. They may just be producing too much waste output for the plants to keep up.
- There is a neat cross-tab chart courtesy of IBD of Aquaponics that tells more about Ammonia Toxicity. Based on temperature and pH, it tells you the minimum level that would be toxic to fish; barring differences in species, etc. They also have a host of other information that's impressive as well. I believe that the tank is just under the threshold.
- I started soaking some seeds last night to give them a head start before sowing them into the growbed. I'm hoping these turn out well and they are able to handle the fishes' output.
The Numbers
| Date | GH | KH | pH | NO2 | NO3 | NH3/NH4 | Temp °C |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17-May | 180 | 80 | 7.0 | 3 | 40 | 2.0 | 23° |
There's really nothing else to report. I'll perform a ammonia check later this afternoon while looking in on the algae condition in the tank.
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