Aquaponics example

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I
1	Day	pH	Ammonia (ppm)	Nitrite (ppm)	Nitrate (ppm)	Plant Growth	Observations Links to pictures encouraged	Changes made with rationale	Plant(s) grown

2	0	7.6	1	0	10
3	6	7.4	2	0.25	10	2.5 cm			sprouts, kale
4	7	8	1.5	0	30			Add wood to increase acidity. Added extra fish to get more nitrite.
5	10	7.6	2	2	40	2.7 cm	Fish died
6	13	8.2	1	3.5	30			Added more sticks to increase acidity, added more bacteria to reduce ammonia and nitrite concentrations.
7	14	8.2	0.25	1	60		Fish died	Other fish removed temporaily, vinegar added
8	17	7.8	0.5	3	40			Added bacteria to sponge for nitrite and ammonia levels
9	29	8.2	0.25	1.5	60			added more plants, added more bacteria to sponge
10	32	8.2	0.25	3	40		Fish thriving, kale greener, lettuce thriving, fungus on dead leaf	added 160 ml distilled water, started lettuce germination	sprouts, lettuce, kale
11	33	8.2	0.25	2	40	5 cm	No change	Added 160 mil distilled water	no change
12	34	8.2	0.25	3	5	note- did a spectrometer test on kale and lettuce leaves	Kale turning beige- cause unknown	Added 100 ml distilled water, added 1 fish from class tank	lettuce and kale majority
13	35	8	0.25	1	5		Large leaves sacrificed for spectrometer, otherwise stable and healthy, ph went down by .2	Added 100 ml di
14	36	8	0	2	5		plants limp, will try to add more
15	39	8	0.5	2	40
16	40	8.2	0.5	2	20			Added plants, Added 160 ml DI, Added 5 lettuce sprouts, removed fish
17	41	8.2	0.1	2	5		lots of kale, all of it sad looking	added fish, added 70 ml DI
18	42	8	0	2	5		kale abundant, but sickly	added 200 ml DI, added 1ml bacteria
19	43	8.4	0.25	2	5		DI water turned out to have a ph of 7.6, and made water very basic. fish seem fine, kale still sickly, no sign of new sprouts.
20	46	8.2	0.1	2	5
21	48	8.2	0.1	2	8		Bacteria seems to be dead	added dilluted water vineagr solution to raise water level, added 1ml bacteria to sponge
22	49	8.2	0.1	2	8
23	50	8.2	0.1	2	8
24	53	8.2	0.25	2	8			removed kale
25	54	8.2	0.1	2	8
26	55	8.2	0.1	2	80		Discovered transulcent, worm-like parasite	removed all plants, rocks, roots, rinsed rocks, replaced sponge, re-planted plants
27	56	8.2	0.1	2	80			added ~400 ml DI
28	57	8	0.1	2	80
29	60	7.8	0.5	0.5	80			Added 1mL of Quickstart bacteria to sponge due to high ammonia and nitrite concentrations.
30	61	8.2	0	0.25	100			added DI
31	62	8	0	0	60
32	63	8	0.25	0.25	80
33	64	7.4	0.1	0	60			added 200 ml DI
34	67	8	0	0	40
35	68	8	0	0	40
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