We've acquired a number of new aquariums, and are actually running out of places to put them. One of them came with a 20 yr old, foot long plecostomus catfish, which will go nicely in my 240gal tank, able to defend itself from the food fish, and keep the algae down. For now however, it resides in what will be my 55gal breeder tank. I've also got about a dozen smaller breeding plecos.

Seems we've officially entered the aquaponics phase, since I'm now growing duckweed and hopefully watercress (just started from seed). As something of an experiment, I took a different spin for the time being, by integrating edible aquatic plants enclosed within the aquarium habitat itself. As you can see from the photo, I've also acquired my grow media... which floats. Waiting to see if it gains density with bacterial colonization.



My more traditional system is still in construction phase, currently trying to find a good solution to bulkhead fittings for the bell siphons.