Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Found this link and thought this might be of good use to someone needing a quick fish tank.

http://www.backyardpuddle.com/diy/index.htm

Koi pond links are very helpful

That's inspirational! 1900 gallons!!!

(Gee, I could do that to my garage too)

Wow! I think that would cost about $350 in new wood. Dang! Thats like .18 cents a gallon! nice!

If cheap is your goal, you can get pretty good wood for free by scavenging pallets.

Hmm.... I may have to put those pond liners I have to use.

That is very nice, simple and BIG!
Its just a shame he spent so much money on the filter, you couldn't grow many vegies in that. Doesn't he know about the joys of gravel washing?

My chicken coop is 80% pallets. The other 20% is other scavanged wood. Yea pallets!

I saw that and thought about using an extra set of 2x4's and OSB plywood and you could cut the cost by close to half.

He bviously doesn't know the joys of washing gravel and I doubt his pump/filter is any better than most everyones growbed/filters. and cost loads more

Two 10-12ft trampoline frames (1.5" galv steel tube) off freecycle with a ring of plywood (or galv sheet) on the inside would be cheaper

I ran across something similar. At a Hawiian website for home based aquaculture, they built it out of thin plywood and bolts to line the sheets up but they used two metal shipping straps to control the external pressure. They said they lasted anywhere from 5 to 15 years if I remember correctly and that depended on how well the base was made.

Even cheaper, dig a hole and line it. (this works well if your ground temp is appropriate for your fish and the ground happens to be soft sand!) Otherwise, I like the pallet idea until they rot.

i like it.