Backyard Aquaponics
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The tank looks great, if made your growbed in a similar fashion it would look good and save you a lot of mucking around with plumbing fittings, ie, make one big 'L' shaped GB with one drain straight into the FT.

Sometimes getting water flow to lots of little GB's can be problematic having one big GB makes the plumbing and water flow easy.

thanks Slowboat. i thought about the GB's in the same fashion, but want to try how well i can grow in the begining, so went for barrel(cheap alternative) once i gain more confidence , will be thinking about the concrete GB's

My GB, i had lot of bricks





Outlet from GB





Dropped in some seeds. Will post the progress soon

Update - Seedling, and grown sacrifing tomato branch planted :)

Many days since last update. lot of things happened.

1. Average growth in media bed
2. I have set up a Raft Bed
3. Seedlings doing well in Raft bed
4. my gold fish is spawning long time, i see three babies so far

Pictures to follow

Media Bed Seedling Growth

Raft Bed

Baby Gold Fish in Raft Bed





Future Sump Tank

Planned to use 2 or 3 barrels. Unfortunately i cannot afford IBC as too costly in the place i live.

Lots of work to do. there a lot babies in main tank, which i cannot see as its too deep. Need to wait for 8 weeks so babies start coming up. Hope all the babies dont get eaten by big ones

not much progress, since last update

updating pictures for tracking growth


Growth today


Growth 2 weeks back





Raft and Media Bed



gold fish baby. i guess many babies are in the big tank, unable to take shot, they might in deep,


I dont have an underwater camera


Water Test

tested the water, ammonia 0 nitrate 0 nitrite 0.

i guess am running low on stock density, need to increase by this week

Lucky Gold fish Fry

the fry you see you above i named it as lucky, my goldfish spawned in main fish tank and this fry got hatched in raft bed, i have 15 to 20 feet away from main fish tank. He got lucky didnt get damaged while transit niether he didnt end up in the media bed next to the raft bed.

He is lucky guy/girl

cutting the barrel

Got New fishes to keep to nitrate build up for plants. Hope to some good plants now

Completed fencing for the property, 60%


and some random fishes

I have bridge siphon acting as a SLO, the flow is not there as much as i expected, so i have started working on SLO. Drilling on the Sides of cement tank (6inch wall), OMG tiring work. My shoulder still hurts , but worth it and i love it. Pictures of Bridge siphon and tools i have used to drill the hole

Bridge Siphon



Tools