Backyard Aquaponics
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HiDave
I was just on Google earth as you emailed trying to locate you guys
we went up and past Buffalo across the boarder in the other country shall remain nameless
we all had a ball made to feel very welcome all over Trev

Great Dave thanks for that Trev

ok, heres a rough sketch, if you missed the previous discussions about google sketchup, you should do a quyick search, download it and give it a go, it takes no time to learn how to use it and you see how quickly I did this up....

as you can see anumber of beds all lined up, each bed just needs one end raised a little, the drain pipe runs under all the bedsand into the fish tank, only need one pump, and there will be no actual difference in fall over the 19m, it's just each individual bed...

Thasts pretty much how DR lennard had his cont. flow raft system plumbed in, with each bed section being 5m, all draining to a common pvc pipe running the length

The beds would need to be distinctly seperated though, and have another "feed pipe" running above other wise the last one wouldn't get as much water, or would it EB?

Ok Looks good
Now for the stupid question how dose the water from the fish tank get to the grow beds I can see how it gets back would I have to pump it on to the first one and let gravity do its work
Trev

no.... pumped to each bed..... they are all individual beds, each with a slight fall... that is what I was trying to point out earlier with the over exagerated \ \ \ \ \

one main pump line above the beds with a T piece and valve at each bed.. The first few beds will need to have their intakes throttled down a little so that the end bed gets water..

HI earthbound

Got it in one That makes a change I will have a shot at a model during the week if I get the time I can see where your coming from it all make sense that way if I have a problem with one grow bed I can close it down
Trev

Yep......

I guess the only thing is that it's harder to make 5 smaller beds than one large one, but, in the long run, you'll be glad to spend more time in the design process.... Shovelling that gravel really sux, you only wanna do it once.

Quambie,

See the minnamurra post for pictures of a simmilar system, i wasn't aiming for the pipe lay out, but you may be able to see enough.

http://backyardaquaponics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=397

HI earthbound
I had not given that part of the process a thought what a great time I have in front of me
Thanks for all the help to all of you guys thus far
Trev

HI Steve
Great that's just what I am after Thanks for that
Trev

HI Steve
Who owns that system , is it in WA !!I would love to have a good look at it
Q

Victoria Monya might have some more photos he can post