My system worked fairly well, and I was able to keep everything happy until last spring when multiple systems failed at once and I lost all of the (6-9") tilapia to lack of aeration. The koi (5-18") all survived and have been quite happy in the front pond this year. I've had huge banana, celery, fig, lemon grass, and sorrel plants in the beds. I managed to root mulberry and fig cutting directly in the flood and drain beds. My pepper plants only grew when the air was quite warm, but I've harvested a lot of peppers this summer. Chives and garlic chives loved it, as did the tarragon. Shallots popped up and then disappeared. Green onion grew monstrous like a leek instead of dividing. Rosemary grew slowly but did all right. Wasabi did well until the aphids hit them hard in late winter, and then a sudden heat wave (warmest spring/summer on record here) combined with inconsistent water when I was redoing the fish systems finished all but a few of them off. Strawberries were inconsistent, sometimes producing fruit, but often with the fruit rotting just as it came ripe. First tomato plants did poorly (air was too cold, I think), second set have grown very slowly, but the nutrient load is quite low at the moment.
Tilapia feeding time (last December):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Now, I'm working on the successor system, bigger and better and more redundant, with all the things I learned from the last time.
