diy aquaponics tank | The Plants Talk seminar by Dennerle

17.31 in Aquaponics, by, dennerle, lawnmower, plants, seminar, talk, the

diy aquaponics tank

In my personal opinion, the seminar was disappointing. It is more toward new product launch rather than plant related talk as the title describe. There are no talk about Difference between emmerse and submerse plants, New plant and their requirement, nor Nano plants.

The entire seminar was promoting the Dennerle product and 7 golden rules. However, there are couples of interesting points:

1. Heating cable, my understanding from other hobbyist experiment across the world that there is no significant growth different between with or without heating cable. Heating cable suppose to circulate the water in the substrate as warm water will move up. This might be the reason Dennerle do not dose macro fertilizer.


2. Dennerle system relied heavily on substrate no water column macro fertilizer dosing.


3. Dennerle reduced the blue spectrum from their light bulb. This is the opposite of ADA light bulb. Who is correct?


4. It was mention that plant is taking a break during photo period. Thus Dennerle suggest of siesta (5 ON – 4 OFF – 5 ON). Did plant take a break?


5. Rule of thumb for CO2 injection is (tank volume in liter)/10 = bubble per minute. Just imagine for 3ftx1.5ftx1.5ft tank about 180 liters so according the formula 180/10 = 18 bubble per minutes. There is no way you can get 25 – 30 ppm with this amount of CO2 unless he is talking about big giant bubble.

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diy aquaponics tower | DIY CO2

13.18 in amano, Aquaponics, aquarium, by, co2, diy, in, lecture, malaysia, planted

diy aquaponics tower

I decided to use DIY CO2 for this setup to speed up my plants growth. Both non CO2 and daily Excel dosing does not give enough grow rate.

My DIY CO2 setup is pretty simple:
- 2 bottles of 1.5L soft drink (empty)
- 2 bubble counter
- 2 check valve
- Airstone
- CO2 hose

I did not use diffuser since it may not generate enough pressure to push CO2 through but I put airstone under filter inlets. That way most of the CO2 will be suck in by filter but it may cause airlock in some filter if lots of CO2 is created. Buble counter function as an indicator which bottle need to change. The check valve is to prevent CO2 from leaking out when one of the bottle being replace. I did not premix the solution together at the same time.


Simple sketch


Ive been researching through out the net about DIY CO2 recipe and found that wine yeast suppose to be used instead of normal bread yeast. Apparently alcohol is toxic to yeast and alcohol is by product when yeast consume Glucose to generate energy in Anaerobic condition. Wine yeast on the other hand can tolerate highest level of alcohol and acidity. Thus in theory wine yeast will give you longer CO2 generator


Aerobic condition:

Glucose + O2 --> CO2 + H2O + Energy

Anaerobic condition:

Glucose --> CO2 + Alcohol + Energy

Searching around for wine yeast and found out that it cost 10 times more than normal yeast from supermarket. So forget about the idea of using wine yeast and use instant yeast instead (Saccharomyces Cerevisiae) from Bake King

My recipe:

- 2 cup of sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon of yeast
- 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
- 1000 ml of water

Honestly it really not bad. I was haunted by post on forums, people was saying that DIY CO2 have unstable output. On contrary, I was able to get good stable output at least 0.5 bps for a month.


Update (12 October 2011)
BPS output from 1 bottle through out 37 days.

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diy aquaponics greenhouse | Initial Sketch

23.11 in Aquaponics, by, dennerle, initial, plants, seminar, sketch, talk, the

diy aquaponics greenhouse

Time for new scape on my long abandon 2ft tank. Above is my simple sketch. The scape is about how tree still survive after the logging. It shows new braches and leaves are growing from cut area. It show how resilient nature is.

At this moment my plants selection are:

1. Cryptocoryne wendtii var. green


2. Echinodorus tenellus


3. Eleocharis parvula (Dwarf hairgrass)


4. Eleocharis vivipara


5. Glossostigma elatinoides


6. Microsorum pteropus (Java fern)


7. Rotala sp green


8. Rotala sp red


9. Vesicularia montagnei (Xmass moss)

Im Curently on the process of gathering material. It may not even materialize if I cannot get the right wood, which is the main focus point. There is not much wood selection at local fish shop in this country

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diy aquaponics ibc | Intervied by The New Paper

23.25 in Aquaponics, by, chinese, happy, intervied, new, paper, the, year

diy aquaponics ibc

My interview with The New Paper

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diy aquaponics trough | Planted Aquarium Lecture in Malaysia by Amano

02.46 in 2010, amano, aquafair, Aquaponics, aquarium, aquascaping, by, competition, in, is, lecture, malaysia, on, planted

diy aquaponics trough

It is once in a lifetime to meet Mr. Takashi Amano in Malaysia.

The 4 hour Planted Aquarium Lecture is expected to attract hobbyist not only from Malaysia but Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, or even Japan.

As seats are limited, the organizer will accept application on a first come first serve basis.

Date : 27th November 2010
Time : 2.00pm -6.00pm
Venue : Exhibition Hall 4 Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre
Fee : RM150/ USD 50 per participant


Held in conjuncton with Aquafair Malaysia*LIMITED SEATS ONLY

Click here to register.

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diy aquaponics instructions | Sun Pet Aquarium scaping workshop photo

11.58 in Aquaponics, aquarium, by, intervied, new, paper, pet, photo, scaping, sun, the, workshop

diy aquaponics instructions

I did some workshop few month back at Sun Pet Aquarium. Initially I wanted to make it informal where everyone together making the scape. Unexpectedly many people are turning up which is pretty bad for me who have problem talking to large audience. The idea of scaping together does not work with many audience. Make matter worst I did not prepare the alternative. Thanks to Vincent and Thio for helping filling up the blank, the event end up quite OK.

Below are some of the photos courtesy Simon.

 My introduction

Explaining the scape concept that I gonna do

Vincent with ADA tweezers

Rock placement

Vince explaining while Im tying the wood

Wood placement

Plants (part of it)

View from top

Complete scape, now wait until it grow

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