Backyard Aquaponics
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Hello all.
My name is Brad and I am living in in Leyte where that had the very bad storm and well I want to give something back to the village that I live in.
I have been looking into Aquaponic's and love the concept as I had fish farms but lost all in the storm so this is alot better system as I can keep an eye on this as I did have a problem with my care takers with stealing.
I have very limited product here in the Philippines or just so hard to find that I want to create from what I can source out of general everyday and easily excess able products or just make my own set up. Now with my media I was going to use Rice Husk and crushed up coconut shells so that I can get a flow and the rice husk will not go solid and only make a channel through and not get to the roots.
The questions that I would like to ask my new family is about all the ratio's with media to fish to water volume to plants needed for the fish.
Someone said to me that I need 25ltr of media per fish but don't understand what how to work that out if someone can help me with that ratio.
I have a few idea's on how I am going to set up plus will go back through all the different topics that have been discussed from the forum but would like to post everything so you can see my progress and then went I get it working post the pictures as I hand it over to the village that I am experimenting this for.
Thanks in advance for any help that you can give me and any things that a new bee that could stumble on at start up again thanks and are excited to start my project.

I don't mean to be a downer, but I think you might struggle using something organic as a media. It'll end up rotting, and clogging everything up. I'm just picturing it turning into a gloopy mess, I'm happy to be proven wrong though, apart from giving it to chickens to play in, I haven't done much with rice husks.

Do you have any rivers close to you? The rocks don't need to be uniformed, and river pebbles will work quite well.

Brad,

As Columnmn said river pebbles would be your best option.

I think you'll have a problem with your Rice Husks & Coconut Shells floating and if you can't find any suitable media you might try DWC, but you would need extra filtration with DWC.


The usual stocking rate is 1 Fish per 25litres of Growbed wet gravel filtration.

Hinaot Maayong

Joe