07 June 2011, Tuesday, Sunshine

Tested the system.
Ammonia  0>.1
Nitrate       0>.5
Nitrate       5
PH             6.0,  maybe slightly lower.
Really happy with the tests.  This system has always been so problem free.

Had noticed a bit of a smell but realised later it was coming from the snail enclosure.  A bit of excess food in there probably.  Have to find a way to reduce the snail numbers before the take over.

6 May 2011, Friday

Tested the system.
Ammonia  0
Nitrate       0
Nitrate       5
PH             6.2,  maybe slightly lower

Looks like the coir has made the water more acid  :(  It is always on the acidic side due to the rain water we use.  Will have to get something to buffer it a bit.

Planted some Rainbow Chard and Snake Beans.
..Chard into a thin layer of coir on top of a gravel pot.
..Snake Beans into Gravel Pot.  Some into plugs, other into the gravel.  See how they go.
Borlotti Beans that were planted in plugs in gravel pots a couple weeks ago have their first flowers

Moved the last 4 GoldFish to the GF tank.  These had refused to be caught til today but I want to let the native (Rainbows?) have a tank to themselves.  I think they have been eating the babies :(

Looks like we will need to prune another limb off the big fig tree.  My GB is getting a bit too shaded.