Aquaponics Venturi adjustment

I thought Id make a little adjustment to my venturi as suggested by Mike Creuzer in a comment on this post on my Venturi air thing.

He thought I should have some extra bubbles breaking the surface, and it turns out its a bit of a hot topic in great debate all over the place, but I noticed a very slight oil slick on the surface of the water. I guess lots of things case very slight oil slicks. Eucalyptus leaves for one. Uneaten fish food probably would. I suspect an oil slick - and Im talking an almost invisible one - would have some effect on gaseous exchange between the atmosphere, and my fish tanks water.

I have no idea if thats true, but I figure it couldnt hurt to stir the surface a little.

So I trimmed the pipe carrying water and bubbles down to the bottom by an inch or so and now lots more bubbles exit.

A 1/4 second exposure shows how much extra water movement on the surface is actually going on.










After only a few seconds there was no more sign of the oil slick.

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Auqaponics Baby spinach

Normal people buy seedlings from plant stores.

Normal people type on normal keyboards.

im typng this on tisflexible waterproofkeyborthat my mumbughtfor me for my boatt trip becausei spilt scotch ndcoke nto my old keyboard.

ts ok .

tatth best cnsay for it.

From this oinon Ill do some proof reaing,nd tryto edit it so its actually readable.

I bought some baby spinach from my local supermarket today, and thought Id plant it out rather than just eat it.

It looked a little sad so it only cost a few cents.

But There was a decent root mass so I thought it might be viable.

I trimmed all the sick looking leaves and think I now have some baby spinach plants.

Ill post  an update in a few days after cutting off all the leaves that will inevitably die, but I  think the plants will survive.







10htings in20 years reallyneeds tobuya new keyboard

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