Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Hi guys,

Have had my system up and running for a while now. Not sure why but have only just gotten myself organised to go and take a few photo's of it. My design is pretty simple as that is all my little mind could manage. It's chift pist with two fish tanks made out of 1000 l shuttles which overflow into a sump made out of a shuttle cut down to hold about 600 l. The pump then pumps up to three grow beds, two are about 250 l each and the third is about 400l. At the moment I only have 23 small silver perch in one of the tanks but am supplementing the plants with small amounts of pure ammonia to keep the nitrates up. I will try to post a few photo's.

You'd be better off supplementing the plants with Seasol... rather than playing/risking adding pure ammonia...

Nifty looking setup there Waltz, good use of the space too. Thanks for sharing with us and please keep us posted with your further progress.

It has been working with the ammonia quite well, I test it regularly and only ever put in small amounts. If i could get some of those bigger barramundi from golden ponds i wouldnt have to worry about it.

You do have enough grow bed filtration capcity ... to add more fish.... I would be... and skipping the ammonia...

After all... the fish provide it... free....

Yeah I know, my only problem is that we aren't going to perth for another few weeks. For some reason golden ponds won't send them down by aae.

I just noticed your in Esperance Waltz.

I wouldnt bother with Barra in your climate as you will only have them for a short time but thats up to you.

Ill be heading your way to deliver some SP in 2 weeks if you want some?

How big? I already have some small ones, I was just thinking some bigger fish would be nice, but I'm not too stressed anyhow.