Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

About this one: Half full I would say!

I got this one for 130 Swiss Francs, with a filter and a pump and the lights. I don't know how to use the pump, but with the one I have it looks like bubbling fine.

Also i put the filter higher, so I can put a lot more water in the buffer tank.

Looks nice, Fred. Whats that white stuff in the right corner of the blue tub and on top of your filter (by the hose)? If it's silicone be careful to make sure its fish friendly. Looking forward to seeing your system grow.

It is adhesive tape. I don't like it to be in contact with the water (it is not) because of the glue.

Good one then. Just purchased four guppies myself a few days ago to get the bacteria growing. Woke up this morning and had to catch eight babies and seperate them from the parents. Hopefully they will get big fast.
Happy fish, Happy plants to follow.

Lucky you...

Thanks, it helps to have a taste for the bigger girls.

Nice work Fred, good to see pictures...

This has lived in my head these days. I wasn't thinking enough about the siphon stuff. Everything I planned was way too expensive and complicated. Now all the complication is to start the flood in each segment and make it neither too much nor too few. With long sections I need a pump only when starting the siphon.
I think I could end with a system with only one electric pump and one manual pump, if it floods contiuously.
But it flows very slow, drop by drop and sometimes faster but that much.
I shall adjust this when sooner or later bigger plants would be more thirsty.

Biggest difficulty with indoor aquaponics is the catastrophic consequences of a wrong manipulation. Just experienced the "unsurveyed siphon water transfer" which ended with me bent over the floor with a blanket in the hands.

Apart, the fish is well, water is clearer. Added two goldfish a few days ago.

Ouch, What happened? Did it overflow?

I'm trying a manual pump to start the siphon between tanks. One of the tubes was not attached, but simply layed in the tank. After a while the tube went out of the tank The positive of it, I'm cleaning the floor.

I am going to eat it, but before, let's immortalize it!

That's one good looking tom. Is that grown in an aqua or hydro system Fred.

It started on hydro. Then went red on aquaponics The new ones are all grown with aquaponics. See some deffifiencies on the leaves, there is still some yellow...
I'd like so much to add more fish but it's too early.