diy aquaponics system step by step | AGA 2011 free entry dont miss it

08.49 in 2011, aga, Aquaponics, aquarium, checker, dont, drop, entry, free, in, it, miss, planted

diy aquaponics system step by step

Cut and Paste from the web site:

The Aquatic Gardeners Association is proud to announce our 12th International Aquascaping Contest!! This event is an opportunity for all aquascapers, from the beginner hobbyist to the professional, to display and share their art with others around the world.

New this year: In an effort to stimulate worldwide economic recovery, there will be NO ENTRY FEE for 2011!

All that is required are 1 - 5 photos of your aquarium, a simple entry form, and a signed photo release. You can enter entirely online. We will display all entries permanently on the AGAs web site. You can also choose to have your tank entered in the 2012 Aqua Design Amano contest at the same time.

Winners will receive ribbons and cash awards.
Closing date for entries: September 25
Winners announced: November 18
This contest just keeps growing and growing and growing! So fluff the plants, snap those photos, and enter your aquascape in the AGA contest to share with aquatic gardeners and artists around the world!

Wed like to thank Jen Williams for the beautiful graphics and the advertisement for The Aquatic Gardener.

We are recruiting volunteers to help with online promotion of the contest. If you regularly visit forums or aquarium-related Facebook pages, and can spend an hour posting online, please contact cheryl @ dustyuniverse.com. Also, if you have a blog or web site, please download a web banner and link. This contest cannot be a success without folks who contribute a little of their time and effort.

Also, if you or your company is interested in sponsoring the AGA aquascaping contest, we would be grateful for donations to offset the cost of the cash awards, which are numerous. Sponsors have their company logo and web site link printed in The Aquatic Gardener and featured prominently on the AGA showcase web site.

Please e-mail us if you need more information. Contest Technical Coordinator Erik Olson (erik @ thekrib.com) is happy to answer any questions about the web site or electronic entry process. For general questions, please contact Cheryl @ dustyuniverse.com.

Good Luck and Happy Scaping!

Cheryl Rogers
AGA Contest Chair

source: http://showcase.aquatic-gardeners.org/2011.cgi

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diy aquaponics syphon | 2ft Realm of Tranquality

03.18 in 2011, 2ft, Aquaponics, broadcast, live, na, of, party, realm, tranquality

diy aquaponics syphon

Im using manten rocks for this scape. It is a nice rocks but the price also expensive, roughtly S$10 per kg. The good part for this scape is low maintenance. I just let the haigrass grow wild, no trimming what so ever, just enjoy it grow.

Tank size: 60x30x25cm
Light: 2x55W
CO2: 3bps with Up inline diffuser
Sunstrate: ADA Amazonia
Filter: Eheim 2215 (620 l/h)
Flora: Eleocharis parvula

Fauna:
- Neocaridina heteropoda var. "red"
- Caridina cantonensis sp. "red"
- Paracheirodon simulans (green neon tetra)

Here the hardscape before planting, the 2 small rocks at center was removed
Final scape photo

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diy aquaponics supplies | My present from ADA

03.05 in 2011, ada, aga, Aquaponics, dont, entry, free, from, it, miss, my, present

diy aquaponics supplies

Today I received my early birthday gift from ADA ...

... ta-da ... my IAPLC rank 20 stainless steel certificate and $$$ prize

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diy aquaponics siphon | My IAPLC 2011 rank 20

04.55 in 20, 2011, Aquaponics, iaplc, is, my, out, rank, result

diy aquaponics siphon

Finally ADA released tank picture of the top 27. You can download the high res picture from the link below.

http://acuariorosa.com/2011/08/02/the-international-aquatic-plants-layout-contest-2011/

This is my tank picture, rank 20 title "Lost". Im glad ADA did some color adjustment on my submited picture, it look nicer.

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diy aquaponics system youtube | IAPLC 2011 result is out

19.34 in 2011, Aquaponics, co2, diy, iaplc, is, out, result

diy aquaponics system youtube

Here are the top 27:
1. Long Tran Hoang VIETNAM
2. Xue Hai TAIWAN
3. Dmitriy Parshin RUSSIA
4. Cliff Hui HONG KONG
5. Fa Loy Lee MALAYSIA
6. Koji Kogure JAPAN
7. Chow Wai Sun HONG KONG
8. Yuji Yoshinaga JAPAN
9. Wai Hung Tony Wong HONG KONG
10. Eriko Kanno JAPAN
11. Hidekazu Tsukiji JAPAN
12. May Kwan HONG KONG
13. Takayuki Fukada JAPAN
14. Chow Wing Ki HONG KONG
15. Wang Chao CHINA
16. Timucin Sagel TURKEY
17. K.P. Wong HONG KONG
18. Luis Carlos Galarraga BRAZIL
19. Toshifumi Watanabe JAPAN
20. Robert Oei SINGAPORE <<<<< me?
21. Johs Sim MALAYSIA
22. Pasquale Buonpane ITALY
23. Wei Cheong Chung MALAYSIA
24. Zhang Jian Feng MACAU
25. Abdullah Tezer TURKEY
26. Truo Thinh Ngo VIETNAM
27. Ng Wai Kwong HONG KONG

Full result can be downloaded in pdf format from the link below

English: http://en.iaplc.com/results11/pdf/ranking2011e.pdf

Japanese/Chinese: http://en.iaplc.com/results11/pdf/ranking2011j.pdf

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diy small aquaponics system | Aquarama 2011 nano tank category

06.22 in 2011, Aquaponics, aquarama, aquarium, category, fan, gex, nano, tank

diy small aquaponics system

Im lucky to have won both 1st and 2nd place for nano tank competition.

1st place winner, tank number 2
2nd place winner, tank number 3
3rd place winner, tank number 5
Tank number 1
Tank number 4
Tank number 6
Tank number 7
Tank number 8
Tank number 9
Tank number 10

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diy aquaponics system step by step | DIY LED Set for 2ft tank 2nd gen

20.15 in 2011, 2ft, 2nd, aga, Aquaponics, at, cheater, competition, diy, for, gen, led, set, spotted, tank

diy aquaponics system step by step

From the previous design which is 6x3W LED for 2ft tank, I found that it is not bright enough. For this second generation I add another 6 LED, thus total 12x3W led. Still 2 rows but 6 LED for each row.
This time I drive both row together using off the self constant current source LED driver
LED driver manufacturing spec:
- Input voltage: AC 85-265V
- Output voltage: DC 28-45V
- Output current: 670mA

The result is quite good, brighter than 2x36W PL light, more LED mean brightness more uniform and all the plant produce bubble 30 minutes after light on. I do not have equipment to measure brightness nor PAR, so I wonder if I put too much light but never mind, will see how it goes.

Initially I was worry about the heat generated by LED. In the previous design there are only 3 LED on the 5x60 cm aluminum plate, now its double and it is not a heat sink just a plate without fins. Temperature measured just right under the LED heat sink show maximum 49.7 degree C. Not sure the Juction temperature though.

My guess probably because the LED driven at 670mA instead of 1A. I did current measurement using Tektronix current Probe and LeCroy scope, it show that maximum current is ~897mA, minimum current is ~589mA and average around ~720mA. Voltage measured at the driver output is 36.75V. Thus the LED took around 26W.

Power used by the whole light set (LED + Driver) is around 27W. LED alone take 26W, thus LED driver efficiency is not that bad, only 1W power loss.

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diy aquaponics tower | IAPLC 2012 New Judging System

18.25 in 20, 2011, 2012, Aquaponics, iaplc, judging, my, new, rank, system

diy aquaponics tower

Detail of IAPLC 2012 new judging system is out (http://en.iaplc.com/about/grading.html).


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diy aquaponics stand | IAPLC 2012 Judging Method

15.55 in 2011, 2012, Aquaponics, aquarama, category, iaplc, judging, method, nano, tank

diy aquaponics stand

IAPLC steering team was just announce new judging method during live broadcast on Saturday (17 September) and since then many discussion around it through out Aquascaping community. Some are welcome to the change and some are not. My take is the new method is wide open for abuse and votes fairness is in question due to nationalism/patriotism.

You can read some of their view from the link below

ASW: http://www.aquascapingworld.com/forum/announcements/5409-live-stream-iaplc-party-new-ada-award-public-voting-3.html

MAC: http://www.my-mac.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=16271

The issue was started in Round 2 where the top 100 are determine by votes from contestant, fish shop owner and magazine publisher. This mean that country with more contestants and more shop owners will have advantage. What happen to the fish shop who own by old Uncle and Aunty who do not even know how to use computer? This round also open to abuse where contestant can create multiple fake entry, thus he/she will have multiple vote right under his/her control. He/she can even sell the votes in the even his/hers scape unable to enter top 200.

Round 3 (IAPLC jurries and party participants votes will decide the top 7) and Final Round (Grand prize winner will be decided by party participants) will have simmilar issue. This will give adavantage to home country. Which country do you think will have the most NA party participants?

Lets face it, it is just like sport event, people will support their home country team eventhough there no chance of winning.

There are still couple of months before IAPLC 2012 start, lets just wait and see how ADA going to prevent the above possibilities. I just wish there will be tank size category on the next IAPLC. Small tank have slim chance to beat those big tank.

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diy aquaponics toteponics | Cheater at AGA 2011 competition spotted

13.44 in 2011, ada, aga, Aquaponics, at, cheater, competition, from, my, present, spotted

diy aquaponics toteponics

AGA International Aquascaping Contest 2011 result was anouced last week and my tank "Lost" happen to be in 2nd place in 120-200L. However to my surprise the 1st place goes to IAPLC 2011 rank #14. It is a great scape, no doubth about it but according to the tank size written on the IAPLC booklet, it is 120x55x50cm tank which is 300L or 87.177 US gallons. How could the tank of that size competing in 120-200L category? I checked the AGA entry details and it was written 100x45x40cm which is 180L or 47.551 US gallons. Someone was obviously cheating. He reduce the tank size so that he can compete on smaller category (maybe he want to be in different category as Cliff Hui) or to have better depth. Imagine 300L tank submited as 180L, reported almost half.

The holy-grail of aquascaping is to make small tank look big. What the easy way to do that? Declare big tank as small tank. Imagine what would hapeen if I declare my 90x45x45cm tank as 30x15x15cm tank? Every one will amaze ont he depth that I create on that tiny little tank.

I have reported this issue to AGA but they dont seem to be eager to disqualify it.


IAPLC rank #14 entry:
AGA 2011 entry:

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diy solar aquaponics system | Aquarama 2011 planted tank category

22.57 in 2011, Aquaponics, aquarama, atomizer, category, new, planted, system, tank, up

diy solar aquaponics system

Aquarama 2011 has ended yesterday. Below are the winner for planted tank category. Congratulation to all the winner.

1st place winner, tank nunber 5

2nd place winner, tank number 6

3rd place winner, tank number 2

Tank number 1

Tank number 3

Tank number 4

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diy aquaponics sand filter | 2011 NA party live broadcast

12.12 in 2011, Aquaponics, aquarama, broadcast, category, live, na, party, planted, tank

diy aquaponics sand filter

Some of the pictures captured during the live broadcast

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