Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

RAIN. 15000ltrs ish for the pool before I stopped the diverter. Mainly cos the rain is not stoping and over the next couple of days the GB's will still catch a lot of water. Fish seem really happy and have been hitting the food hard over the last couple of days. I guess rain has a high DO by the time it hits the roof.

Large underwater ABF still working.

Inside tank needs a clean

Hard to get a picture of these guys.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7sn6Ob2qgI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgYwytE3B-U

More fish food.

Hooked up the large swirl filter. Only has 5000lph pump at the moment, will hook up the 10000lph once I re-plumb the gb's.

I've had the swirl filter running for 15min per hr and a small drain to the ABF. It half empties the swirl filter through the ABF before the next cycle starts. So it acts like a header tank. When I hook up the sequence valve I may use one of the outlets to fill a header tank as a backup and have it drain through the ABF back into the tank.

Am Trace
Ni Trace
Na 5
Ph 7.8 ish

Need to put a few more plants in.

Okay just running through how the new timer is going to be hooked up.


First idea was middle switch sends power to timer and then back to the 2 power points. Lets you run 2 pumps on the same timer.

Second idea was to have power go from the switch to the first power point. That then via a cord goes to the timer then back to the second power point. Idea behind that is you can have a normal timer in the first power point that can turn the system off of a night. But you can also just have a timer before the pump.

Hey Duff are you using the timer with one of Rupe's new valves, if so will it run the pump 15min on and 1min off to switch the valve

When it turns up. Till then I was thinking of setting it to run the current setup.

Shipment of valves expected to arrive this week... possibly as early as tomorrow...

Cool more toys.

Moved a GB today. First I removed all the clay(clean after runing for a year ish) And left the gravel that I put on the bottom. I had let the GB dry out for a few days but there was still a worm party in the gravel. 2 people and the GB is now a couple of metres closer to the sun. Broke one leg, was the benches Will have it up and running in the next couple of days. Lesson learnt. Put it in the right place in the first place.

Darn inside tank. Over feeding and the Ammonia is a green I'm not used to seeing. Dropped half the water and cleaned the sump out. Topped back up out of the pool.Still mopping up the mess on the floor. Will do a couple of water changes in the morning from the pool. Nitrite was zero so maybe a recent thing. Only noticed the flashing an hr or so ago. Don't like how the tank has a skimmer to the sump below. Floating food gets into the sump if the fish are not quick enough.