Our plants are growing!!!

This is after about one week. Our plants started growing, but you should see them now.
Deni in action planting our plants.
Our koi are very very full. They ate too much and our nitrite levels were dangerously high, so they were on the bottom becuase their skin was irritated. We lowered our levels though, and they are happy now.
Our plants are growing incredibly well. !!!

In the past week, we have put our aquaponic system together and we planted several plants. We got our fish through a koi farmer. There were several hundred fish and we split them somewhat evenly among the two classes. We planted pak choi and are hoping to plant more in the next week or so.

I will be keeping the blog updated, so come back soon to see the progress on our plants.

Here is our growing bed. We are growing pak choi and one other plant at the moment. In the next few days, we hope to plant some more.

A group of elementary school students came down to look at our aquaponic system. They will be harvesting our fish.

EVERYBODY SMILE FOR AQUAPONICS!!!

Mr. Kaneko is deep conversation with two of the students about the fish.

We got our fishes over the weekend. Mr. Kaneko got koi and the tilapia were not ready yet.


We also began planting our plants. We planted pak choi so far and we shall see what happens.

Toshi, Deni, and Cassidy taking a break. Aquaponics is hard work!
The strongest smelling and strongest holding glue!
"Uhhh. something looks wrong". We found out we had put the pipe together wrong, so we had to redo it.

Our wheels fell of while we were taking into the biotech area. Mr. Kaneko is hard at work trying to put them back on.

We are working very hard to put our system together.
Our drain pipe for the system. Today we found out it is too tall so we had to cut it down.
When using some of the stickiest glue EVER , you must be very precise.
The new home for our fishies. :)

Washing the red and black cinder.


One of our plants that we will be transplanting into the aquaponic system.

Our growing media

Setup day

Welcome everyone to the Mid Pacific Institute Aquaponics Period 1 blog.

We are the first aquaponics class at Mid Pacific Institute so we are very excited to be able to have this opportunity.

Check back here for any events or news that may occur over the semester. I will try to regularly update photos of the system as well.

GO PERIOD 1!!!!!



On September 9th, we started setting up our aquaponic system. We started washing the growing media (we are using red and black cinder) , we set up the plumbing, the pump, and placed it in its respective growing position for the duration of the semester.

For our growing media, we are using the red and black cinder because it is a fairly inert substance that is pourous so it will hold a lot of oxygen and it will not disintegrate at all. It is one of the cheapest growing medias as well.

We have not started the pond yet because we do not have the fish, but when we do, we will be using koi and tilapia.

Check back here soon for some more information about how our fabulous aquaponic system is going.