Day 41- April 16th

Here are some pictures of our aquaponics system today. The plants are still not growing even though we’ve added different chemicals to try to neutralize the water and promote plant growth. We tested the pH and ammonia again and they were both higher than we want for our system despite attempts to lower both of these. The pH was over 8 and the ammonia was .25. The pH should be lower than 7 and the ammonia should be 0 so we still need to lower those numbers for our plants to grow. I added some more neutralizer to try to lower the ammonia level. Before I did that we added water to the system because we are still losing a significant amount due to evaporation. We will continue to monitor our levels and add the neutralizer to get the levels to where we want them.

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