Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

wow tt, i had know idea those bathtubs were that much of a bargain, i thought geelong was on the central coast have you tried all the options ...tip shop, scrap metal yard, chuck out days??? gotta be something closer than 1,000,000miles away.

...and here was I thinkin' you were trying to take the mickey out of him Worms.

We all make those kind of mistakes every now & then, my 1st step is to google the place name to find where its at

cheatta .... so do I

well we are on the central coast, but it is the south central coast in southern VICTORIA. anywho i am trudging the scrap yards locally as we type, i hear there is no point going to Sunbury as nothing ever gets thrown out there!

Hi all,

been a bit quiet of late, busy cleaning up after the massive storm hitting us. i wont be forgeting that friday night for awhile, we all survived though (only just) even the chooks were rescued with 3 inches of water over the perch, chucked them in the ute for the night (messy but alive). water came about 2cm from coming in the house with about 2 foot through the garage . aquaponics came very, very close to going under with about an inch spare from flood water engulfing the tank. It was an amazing sight with our street turning into 1.5m deep torrent which nearly took me and the ute with it.

the fish are nearly all kickn with afew fatalities due to the freezing cold rain (i presume) Not sure if its finish cycling yet, ammonia and nitrite read zero nitrate not tested. It all fared pretty well considering we had no power for 4 days

good to have you back here Worms and good to hear you all survived

Good to see ur AP height = ur home site height. Would hate to think your dwelling actually took precedence. Welcome back Kotter.

Glad that you all survived! Sounds horrible.

Finally, a progress report.....

Extended the bath tub rack and put in 8 more bathtubs making it 16 in total. gradually bringing them back into to line as i get more fish. I have 5 inline at the moment with the 6th converted to a yabbie pond (just taped up th holes at the bottom of the stand pipe).

30 silvers, 12 yabbies and 2 large goldies in total but plan to add 100 more silvers when there ready. System must of finished cycling as the plants are starting to kick along now. Hopefully it will really start to krank when the weather warms up...considering making a black poly grid to run on the roof to warm up the water

got thru the storm and came out a winner!
Looks great! good efforts

wow.

awesome job worms.

i love it.

Way to go Wormy.....!!!

Lookin fine.

Did u find out conclusively why ur fish were dying?
Is ur dive gear in the fishtank or the GB closest in the last pic?
I love bathtubs but looking at aqualined sumthing in my GH.