Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Thats right Greebe, coming towards the end of summer now, but Im still expecting a few 36C + days before it starts to cool down again. 'Warm' is probably a relative statement, winter here feels pretty chilly to me, but we rarely experience anything under 1C in Perth...
As for the blue barrels they are great from a financial and recycling point of view and they work fine. That said, if I could get flat GBs for an equivalent price i probably would...

Cheers Rupe, Its all starting to happen Id love to tickle some trout this season, but looking at those Perch I think I will let them keep growing till Barra season.

Been a fun couple of weeks, drain outlet fell off, emptied most of the water, pump died.... and bugger me somehow everything is still alive!

Looks awesome in spite of the mishaps Gazza

Awesome gazza. Some great growth there mate.

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Gazza you need an overhaul remove those green things and put some more chillis in there

I think its a Celosia? Cant remember for sure, was just something from the B shop. Non edible (at least probably not very tasty) But they do look nice, come in yellow also...

Dunno bout that Matty, what you can't see in the AP photos is the other 15 or so chilli pants growing around my back yard, from Anaheim to Chinese lantern and Jolokia....

System is looking great Gazza. So did you ever find any of the marron that escaped? Are you just going to run with the 8 SP over winter?

Nope they are long gone, maybe re-populating Bibra Lake or something... Looks like the SPs will have to do for now, I'd like to add a second IBC and run seasonal fish (trout/barra) but i don't think ill have it sorted before trout time

Got an update Gazza

Did you manage to ave any of those Marron champ?

Fraid not Charlie, but not too phased as me oldies have several thousand cubic meters of dam space with plenty of yabbies...

as for the rest of the system, the SP are mostly around 300mm and due for eating about as soon as I can put in some barra.

Everything has slowed down in the GBs, partly cos my fantastic looking beetroots got smashed by rats a couple of days after pulling out all the old endives

Anyway I've given the beds a bit of a clean out and spruce up (man chives really use up a lot of root space!) And after tipping in an aquarium water change I hope to have some updated photos soon

yea winter is a bugger for plant growth... unless you like bulk leafy greens! Mind you Ive got some purple cabbage that will make your head spin, these buggers are huuuuge!

sorry to hear about the marron, oh well, you got yabbies at your disposal so who cares... your a lucky man. Hope to see some yabbie pics this summer mate, you can join in on the biggest yabbie comp with me and mantis... he thinks he's something special but dont listen to him.. hehehe

I was going to start my own yabbie thread a few months back but numbers were disappointing due to poachers

Are the back pipes to keep the birds off??
If so does it work??