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well i just moved in well maybe 4months now and i think it's time to get a system of my own going now... i already have a tank... it came with the house we got ... i will see if i can get a pic on here for you guys... i am not sure on how many gallons it is but it is 69Lx45Wx16H ... i am not sure if i am happy with it or not and i am not sure why there is so much dirt in there i might have to dig around the tank.. i will start work when my trees get cut first i have some guys coming out on monday... and i also have a old bath tub setting in the back maybe i can have another tank going sorry no pic but will get one later..

looks to me like its around 214.5 gallons....


height x width x length / .1337

dimension in feet

jT

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69 inches * 45 inches * 16 inches in gallons

Looks like a fish tank to me Redeyes.. either that, or a good sized sump tank for a BIG system...

Good way to start... keep us posted..

I wouldn't say it that big a sump thank unless you have the spider valve.

But it looks like a nice start to a system in any case.

Spider... yeah...

Was thinking two pump BYAP style system...

Continuous pump up to several small beds with siphons. Would be a nice small AP system.

Actually this would be like a 1/2 sized version of what I'm working on. It is a 500 gallon rectangular sump with fish in it for now. Working on a 10' x 10' square gravel bed at ground level like a gravel patio, gravity draining back to the sump. The plans are to put a rectangular fish tank and a flood and drain gravel bed next to the side of the patio in the future so that the sump becomes really a sump instead of a fish tank.

You could make a gravel bed on the ground with less than $100 of pond liner.

ok i been thinking about flood and drain... i have been looking around for some good grow beds ... i just want to make this as easy i can... thanks guys

Easy would be to set the bath tub up next to that tank. get the height so the bottom of the bath is a few inches higher than the top of that tank. Set up a loop siphon or a stand pipe or bell siphon for the bath. Fill bath with river pebbles or clay balls. Pump from that tank up to the bath and the bath drains back into that tank. Only put as much fish in as the amount of gravel or clay balls in the bath can support. No more than 3 kg (grow out size) of fish per 100 liters of gravel/clay balls. Or in imperial or 5 lb of fish per 25 gallons of gravel. Just make sure the gravel isn't limestone. That is the simplest method but not necessarily the easiest method to maintain.

Easiest to maintain would be to add another tank as fish tank that the water level is higher than the bath so the pump pumps from your in ground existing tank, up to the fish tank which then overflows into the bath (plus any other containers you can fish) which drain back into the existing tank.

Like this, a 90 gallon goldfish pond pumped on a timer to a 90 gallon mortar tub, draining back into the gold fish pond. Ignore the third tub, it's not hooked up it was just for aging water.

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The pump was around 200 GPH fountain pump and the timer is the cheap 15 minute interval 24 hour one, both from Lowe's. HTH!

ok here are a few more pics around the area i can use ... i guess it is around 30x30 space i can use maybe more ... i have room for sure for five 5oo gallon tank...prob more but that is something to think about later... i just need to find the right grow bed for me just not sure what i want yet but i will find something soon... here are the pics...

+1 for BBQ Smoker

*edit* O, I see U are in Texas - BBQ pit is mandatory. Piles of Oak etc.

Your ground looks as flat as mine - Gulf Coast?

Rick

lol man i am on the out skirts of san antonio... i am kinda back in the hills the drive out would make you think that, but i like flat ground i have tones of trees also ... and i got to have a pit.... your right about that!!! one of my probs is Locating talipa fish here in TX.. know of any good hatcheries????