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1 hour ago, Naughty.Psychonaut said:

any update @Green? hope you didn't get scammed man! 

They're awol with their responses, based on that type of behavior alone I won't support them, especially when I can see they've read the message.

53 minutes ago, PsyCLown said:

Nice, looking good! Keen to see how the plants look in a weeks time once their Rapunzel like roots have reached nicely into the water.

Yeah,  I'm getting pretty impatient keep lifting the pots to see if the roots are peaking

Moist rapid new growth coming out. Also added my first round of HTH Shock it;)

16 minutes ago, GGG said:

Looks promising , how long have clones been in the netpots ?


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30mins. 

So got some older clones into my system, got sick of waiting just for the pancake stompers to root so decided to use these as a test run

10 minutes ago, DankFiend said:

Yeah, I remember the pic. Wish I had friends with aquariums .

 

Where the rand is at the moment means the stuff on amazon that are worth buying are running around the same price. But let me look around some more tonight before bitting the bullet. Will chill by topping off and with icepacks till then.

 

 

Let me ask in my reef group to see if anyone has any going and ill let you know.

18 minutes ago, DankFiend said:

I did see that. but anything over a few grand I prefer to buy something new, especially when I don't understand the tech (and can't look under the hood), and also where I can't send it back with a nasty letter of complaint when the shit doesn't do what it was meant to.  for someone willing to go that way, an aquarium forum is a good idea which never even crossed my mind.

 

the chiller I am considering for 8, I found on jungle aquatics and is the same (or a newer version) of the one for 6500 (above). The extra 1500 for advantage of being able to collect it nearby, and for getting a new unit, seems to make more sense in my case.  

I would not buy a chiller from Jungle, they push up their prices something chronic. 

Getting a second hand chiller is absolutely fine, all you would need to do is regas it maybe once a year if that. I am getting a second hand ancient Haliea 400lt rated chiller for my RDWC system. My marine tank runs a Teco 500 R245 gen chiller, top of the range, but also pocket burning. 

Come now @PsyCLowndon't be a pussy drop your numbers ;).

I'd venture to estimate I've spent around 80K since I started growing again, but this year I've spent about 30 +-

33 minutes ago, CreX said:

investments have been made and trim jail is now trim vacation - watch this space 

I'll be making sure @PsyCLowncomes and trims my bud, but only if he's wearing a speedo. 

Lekker daggaz boet, you klapping those bommetjies.

5 minutes ago, Noob1903 said:

Sweet, thanks. I normally get a blank stare when I ask...

https://leroymerlin.co.za/efekto-eco-fungimite-200ml

2 minutes ago, Noob1903 said:

Thanks bud

 

Struggling to find the Sulphur spray in JHB. What brand do you recommend? What about Neem in veg as a preventative?

Go to any nursery and ask for efekto Sulphur, mix a bit in water and spray.

14 hours ago, Dookie69 said:

I’ve seen this sort “dangerous” UV being used in marine fish tanks, where the object is to run a completely sterile environment, ie no good bacteria and no bad bacteria. The light lives in a black tube which forms part of the under-tank filtration system. The tanks have a finite amount of water which pass at a high hourly rate through the UV filter.

Wrong. This is a common misconception, UV sterilization on marine tanks has to do with keeping free floating algae spores in check, it damages the DNA thus not enabling them to replicate. Heterotrophic bacteria in marine ecosystems primarily adhere to the surface of the glass and rock work, thus using UV has very little effect on the bacteria in the system, you actually need good bacteria in the marine tank in order to do conversion of NH3=>NO2−=>NO3-, without this extremely import conversion your live stock would die.

I run both UV (55watt) and Ozone (200mg/hour) on my marine tank.

Just spray some Sulphur and be done with it.

Mammoth, Secret jardin tents suck, why the hell use plastic corners and connectors. But alas I'm stuck with a 3m behemoth. 

Looks good, I should really sort mine out at some point.

40 minutes ago, PsyCLown said:

San Pedro I believe. Peyote is a small cactus, looks like this:

 

The active ingredient is referred to as Mescaline though.

 

If it piques your interest, do some more research. Go down that rabbit hole!  

Takes stupid time to grow unless you graft it onto root stock --- which I did not do, I should plant my other seeds.

2 minutes ago, GGG said:

Noice , those can be R5k and up

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Yep, my fish tank one set me back 12k.

So a friend from a marine group is gifting (trading for a few corals) me an old chiller (perfect working order, albeit in a dire need of a clean and maybe a re-gas).

1 hour ago, Naughty.Psychonaut said:

 

pine oil is also antifungal which makes it harmfull to some microbes, the mycelial mass you see there is most probably one specific species that love pine and might not be a rhizomorph (a fungus growing in symbiotic relation with plants) that looks to be more of a saprotroph (fungus that grows on dead or decaying organic matter). 

 

That is not what rhizomorph means, the literal meaning is root forms. Rhizomorph's can either be friend or foe, so they are not all classified as symbiotic. 

I’d avoid introducing that pine fungus, it would be advisable to rather use cultured or storm bought mycorrhiza. You could potentially be introducing a pathogenic fungus.

38 minutes ago, DankFiend said:

Monster compressor you got there. this is going to be fun to watch. What's the genetics for the maiden run? You mentioned "pancake stompers, sugarcane or platinum punch". Interesting line up. be nice to run clones off a single pheno across the system so your plants chow with uniformity this run - especially if you going to be testing all the lukkar tech you mentioned for dialling in an automating the feeding.    

I’ve only done cuts of a single pheno of pancake stompers for now. So will go with those, when they root. 

Airstones in.

https://streamable.com/dj8qeo

4 hours ago, DankFiend said:

Really nice set up. 

The level of the solution in the control Rez will also tell you the level across the system. Digital auto top off is of course better. 

Yep, I’m still trying to get the control bucket to the same height as the others. 

8 minutes ago, Batista said:

That is seriously epic. Also I see you went hard with the number of buckets-do you have any backup power? That is the only reason why I'm thinking of going coco dtw now.

Can't wait to see this!

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No backup power as of yet, will look into a smaller inverter when funds become available, in the interim I'll use a few battery powered pumps (which I have laying around)