Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

When you have a grow bed full of gravel and you have some small children, one of the first things the kids are going to want to do is pick up some gravel and throw it in the fish tank. In itself this is not really a problem, but eventually some of the gravel is going to find it's way to your pump.

Yesterday, after a few days of the pipe blasting out of the pump, we installed some stainless steel screws to hold it on to the pump. During this process the pump got a clean and the non-return valve did too. Axl found about a cup of gravel above the n-r valve blocking the spring.

It's amazing what a bit of cleaning out the pipes can do for a system

That is why it is important to wash out intestinal pipe with sufficent flow and sterile liquid!!hehehehe

lalalalalalala

I have also discovered that a very good reason for slow draining in a grow bed is a large tomato in the standpipe :clown:

who did it? G or B ?

B, I think

Mmm... maybe she doesn't like tommies!

no, she just likes to hide stuff

typical sheila

I've got a boy who's just turned 1. He follows me to the fish tank every morning and sees me throwing things (food) into the tank. It didn't take him long to learn that he could do that too, only with whatever rocks he can find on the ground. Problem is that he's so cute, and I'm so proud of him following in my aquaponic footsteps, that I havent got the heart to tell him off!

What you need is someone who is not emotionally attached to him to give him a good clip around the ears

Pick me!

OR let him to feed them the fish food

My girls like to feed the fish. It's very exciting when the fish make the water boil.

I made the water boil once, but the fish didn't seem to enjoy it...