Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

I only have a small system for now, until I get my new house built, I have a 100litre FT and another 50litre sump and about 50Lof GBs total I want to put pump in the sump feed the grow beds then they drain into the FT which then over flows into the sump. the GB is about a metre above the FT and sump the FT and sump are at the same level, the reason I am doing this( method behind the madness) is the sump I am planning as a / RT and maybe a couple of yabbies the FT is Koi which I am using purely for what they produce and when I expand to the bigger system they can go in my future ornamental pond. I also want to get the pump out of the FT to give the Koi more room as it is small and the pump is a 3300 lph DW pump. What are the pro's and cons I feel it is alright but I'm wondering if there is something I can't see that can be a major con in this scenario. I am aware of the water quality levels will be a bit more extreme being so small but at the moment it is all I can do to relieve this addiction.lol I will cope.hahaha I will get some photo's up as soon as I figure it out. my camera likes makin them big and I am having trouble working out how to reduce the size.

1000L ft with 50L GB?!?!?!?! do you meen 500L GB?

no 100 L , 50 L Mini being the operatative word, It is all I have room for at the moment but it is working well, Plants are cranking.

haha sorry . .i dont have my glasses on
in terms of posting phots, if you have microsoft picture manager its easy, just open them up in picture manager, select edit, then resize, then web small and they are resized for you

or 800x600 work well when resizing

Ok Pete

You have the instructions now post the Pics.

was gonna take photo's this arvo, got home and my daughter was standing there in costume waving her arms about, PENNY DROPPED, she had a school concert, woops I forgot, all my plans for everything I wanted to put on hold. Sat arvo next chance I get.

Couldn't wait till Saturday had to do it with flash

Nice simple little implementation...

Just can't wait to get my hooks on a bigger system , real estate market is bad at the moment, I have a block of land already and plans for a nice system, this'll have to do, mind you it was smaller last week, I keep growing it week by week.

Awwww - isn't she dainty!

Definitely wins award for 'cutest Ellenbrook system'!

I like the NFTs! You've spent some time on piping there. Crafty use of space!

Strawberries? What's your pH at?


BTx

ph is a little high but expected it is only about 3-4 weeks old has only one koi in it, had 3, 2 jumped out, 1 did it when I just got them, had trouble adjusting to new surroundings, the other jumped last night coz I just took em out of the black tank and put em in the blue one, fish used to be in a 20litre bucket then they got put in the black tub, just bought the blue barrel yesterday, I'm wondering what next,lol, hopefully start harvesting plants, the coriander has doubled in size the last week and there is stacks of new growth on the strawberries and tomatoes, seed raising in the raft at the moment.

Nice work Pete

3 different system styles in that area must be a record

I thought only goon came in casks? That Seasol will last you eons!

I was at B the other day and saw they got it in a big 10ltr plastic drum, makes my cask look like nothin! Hehe