Backyard Aquaponics
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sounds good Froggo. Will have to check out a few suppliers. I use a green bunnings cont for my fish. Didn't have any warning sign. don't know of any problems with them.

Hi mizzie44,

checked out the new price today of those sewer tanks you got second hand. They are 3200litres and cost $1100 new.

I thought after seeing yours they may be cheaper than equal size rainwater tanks. Not so, same price at the places that I looked at.

Still scanning the second hand stuff in the papers for some treasure,

God bless froggo.

hi froggo my local plumbing shop quoted me $745 for the same 3200 litre tank would take 2-3 days for delivery.. these tanks are very strong worth the bucks
cheers
be bold be strong

Hi mizzie44,

thanks for that. I will keep it in mind as I'll prob end up extending my system .

I was suprised at the cost from my local plumbing shop. I knew they could not be the same price as rainwater tanks .

I found a 5000litre tank for $880 which I brought, everyone else local was around $1300 for the same size.

On your system mizzie44, the 90mm pipe into your fish tank, is the pipe 90mm inside the tank also?

Are you drawing the water from the centre of the tank? If you could post a picture of inside your tank that would be a great help,

thanks and God bless froggo.

hi froggo the 90 mil is all the way from the centre of the fish tank out to about 200 mil from the top of the tank, out the side of the tank, down then up to the grow beds where its reduced to 50 mil, still working on the camera thing hope fully this week
cheers
mizzie

my redfin have started laying eggs, the chift pist picked them up from the bottom of one of the fish tanks, i was wondering why one of the taps was blocked pulled of the cover and out pocked a cup of eggs so what do i do know, can i raise them any ideas would be good
cheers mizzie

don't know how the reddies work other than they are substrate spawners, would need the boy to do his bit I suppose there is a chance they could be fertile, in which case, put them in a tub of water with an airstone and see what happens you never know.

Hi mizzie

how is the trout finding the hotter weather ?

although i am still cleaning my water, which is still a little red from the rock washing the water temps are around 20c during the day and 14 -16 over night? And it is not even summer yet !

i am sill interested in getting trout but a bit concerned i will cook them

hopefully i will get the silvers this weekend, been saying that for a while though


look forward to seeing the pix

We all are

hi ruins the trout are going great, because of the size of the fish tank there has been very little temp change, and that is in my glass house with a temp reading of 32 deg..
the out side tank is 3000 litres that handles 11 bath tubs..
the insde tank is 2500 litres that handles 4 bath tubs and 5 recycle tubs, all this runs into a central sump 0f 2500 litres, so i dont know haw i will go for temp in the summer time will tell...

we have been turning the house upside doown looking for the camera as yet no luck

you checked the fish tanks

Ruins, if you want to have trout over summer, you will need to fully shade the whole system with at least 80% shadecloth, and be able to restrict your pumping regime to mostly overnight circulation.

thanx OBO
was thinking trout would be a fish i can play with next winter, build a seprate system 4 them.

I WANT REDDIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mizzie, if they are ready to breed then put some stuff in there for them to lay their egg ribbons on

a "mop"made from strips of pvc plastic should do it
http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/bre ... g_Mop.html
but much bigger and with pvc strips

thanks steve i m not sure if the eggs are fertile or not but will separate them from the main tank and wait and seee