Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Now,I feel fully qualified to talk about people without fish because I don't have any, and I miss the little buggers - last pics showed me that Nova is looking after them so well that they wouldn't want to come back to Owen anyway !!

I'm sort of stuck because I'm travelling back and forth between SA and Tassie at present, and the fish don't like to wait TOOOOO long for me to fix the pump or feed them or whatever the latest crisis is.

I've just bought a backyard with house attached in Queenstown, and the slope is JUST right for a full-on AP system, with concrete-boxed garden beds and a lower corner just waiting for a Jaymie-size tank full of fishies.

The problem I face right now is that Lake Burbury is just a few K's down the road, and it's chock-a-block full of trouts - I know they put 30000 fingerlings in there last year, and I just caught a decent trout a couple of days ago, so there must be about 29500 left looking for a frypan to jump in to, so is it worth my efforts to grow fish at all, when our water comes from from where the fish are ??

Alternatively, I recently visited a little shopping centre near Gungahlin in the ACT where there are several hundred carp struggling to survive in bright green soup, surrounded by garden beds that could do with a good watering -- a pump and a bit of TLC could do wonders for all concerned if the powers that be could just put it together.

I'm no crusader, just an old fart full of lost ambitions and unfulfilled dreams, but if you have ideas and no fish, or fish and no ideas, and you want to contribute a tiny little bit to your own well-being and that of the world as a whole, get in here and lay it on us.

G'day Mick, welcome back
Can you put a few floating beds on the lake and grow some lettuces? Your only outlay will be for a sheet of foam and and apple corer, then at least you can grab some salad if and when you catch any trout!

So you got a place then Mick? Nice work! How big is the backyard? How much time you gonna soend down there?

Not sure the council would appreciate someone putting rafts on a public lake . Nitrate levels would be too low anyway.

Place sounds great Mick.