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Gidday from south st Queensland
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Author:  4x4Eric [ Mar 9th, '14, 17:44 ]
Post subject:  Gidday from south st Queensland
:wave: well fer watching heaps of you tube vids I decided to give this fishy, leafy thing a try.
I found a pritty good deal on 10 IBC's on ebay.
not all going to be Aquaponics
Soon ill be setting up at least one though,but will make the plumbing expandable
I have all sorts of questions and will nut out answers along the way.
:thumbleft: to the wonderful people sharing their valuable knowledge :thumbright:
cheers
Eric.
Author:  HairyCamel [ Mar 10th, '14, 19:59 ]
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There's lots of systems of various types on the forum, you should get plenty of good ideas :)
Author:  Charlie [ Mar 10th, '14, 20:13 ]
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Yes! Welcome!
Author:  BnBob [ Mar 17th, '14, 08:15 ]
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Hi Eric :)
How's the planing going ? Give us a heads up if your chasing parts locally, might be ale to give you some leads..
Cheers mate :thumbright:
Author:  ccBear [ Mar 17th, '14, 08:20 ]
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Welcome Rob has a lot of good videos on youtube so check them out, cheers
Author:  4x4Eric [ Jun 12th, '14, 15:39 ]
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BnBob wrote:
Hi Eric :)
How's the planing going ? Give us a heads up if your chasing parts locally, might be ale to give you some leads..
Cheers mate :thumbright:

Hey Rob thanks for the invite. :thumbright:
I've been looking for the best / nearest place to buy expanded clay. Can you help me? :dontknow:
Is there any chance I can come and look at your setup.
Love your vids on you tube. :headbang: You are always so peacefully mater of fact and informative.
Author:  BnBob [ Jun 12th, '14, 15:45 ]
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4x4Eric wrote:
I've been looking for the best / nearest place to buy expanded clay. Can you help me? :dontknow:


H2Grow out at Raceview are the closest local mob & will do 10 x 45L bags of canna clay for $29.50 each..
http://www.h2grohydroponics.com.au/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=91&Itemid=108&TreeId=33
How many bags do you think you'll need ?
Author:  Tallman [ Jun 12th, '14, 18:42 ]
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BnBob wrote:
4x4Eric wrote:
I've been looking for the best / nearest place to buy expanded clay. Can you help me? :dontknow:


H2Grow out at Raceview are the closest local mob & will do 10 x 45L bags of canna clay for $29.50 each..
http://www.h2grohydroponics.com.au/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=91&Itemid=108&TreeId=33
How many bags do you think you'll need ?


Eric, Bob, if you don't need 10 I'll split. PM me if you want to. Cheers.
Author:  4x4Eric [ Jun 12th, '14, 21:27 ]
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Tallman wrote:
BnBob wrote:
4x4Eric wrote:
I've been looking for the best / nearest place to buy expanded clay. Can you help me? :dontknow:


H2Grow out at Raceview are the closest local mob & will do 10 x 45L bags of canna clay for $29.50 each..
http://www.h2grohydroponics.com.au/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=91&Itemid=108&TreeId=33
How many bags do you think you'll need ?


Eric, Bob, if you don't need 10 I'll split. PM me if you want to. Cheers.



BnBob
Don't rightly know. :dontknow:
One of those questions I haven't found the answer to yet but have been putting off asking, Is a 45Ltr bag the same volume as 45 Ltrs of water? :dontknow:
If this is correct then I'm in for a big bill for my IBC system at 500 liters of growbed. But at this point I have a single blue barrel as a fish tank and half blue barrel as a grow bed so 90 Ltrs would do for now but I'm likely to double that soon so 4 bags would be me (mmmm even that's $120 have to see the minister of finance b4 I agree to that)
Tallman how many do you want?
How do we go about getting a bulk buy going on this forum. Do you think they will do a pallet price? Must be eighty bags on a pallet I would think.

Sorry Earthbound I would prefer to get this sort of thing thru you but the freight would be a killer unless you can work something out with a supplier here in Brissy.
Author:  Tallman [ Jun 13th, '14, 06:48 ]
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I probably need about 6 bags for my next build so I'd be happy to take whatever you don't need.
If a Brissy bulk buy came together I'd be in that too. I assume the seller would just want the syndicate to all turn up at once, pay, break up the pallet themselves, and be on their way.
Author:  4x4Eric [ Jun 13th, '14, 07:38 ]
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I have not spoken to them yet but I will talk to them tomorrow. Saturday
Who knows. They may already be at break even cost so. :dontknow:
Worth a crack
Author:  BnBob [ Jun 13th, '14, 07:55 ]
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It took 6-7 bags to fill our 300L beds Eric so you will be up for a bit :/
A bit of a trick I'll be using on my next build will be to bulk out the base of the bed with large (50-100mm) river rock then cover that with some shade cloth before the clay goes in.. Will give better flow to the siphon base & might also make the solids that tend to settle on the base flow through easier as well..
(Cheers Paul :thumbright: )

Still need to make sure you have enough surface area for the bacteria to colonise to do their thing though ;)

If you guys need under 10 bags I will pick up the difference if you want.. Not really sure how many bags I will need yet for the 2 systems I'm building.. If you want I can buy them & you can pick them up from here..
What ever is easier..
Author:  4x4Eric [ Jun 14th, '14, 07:50 ]
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Awesome Rob Thanks for the measure. The rock Idea sounds interesting but from what I've learned from the experienced ones here (like yourself) I will only just have enough grow bed space as it is to do the bactereia thing justice. I will keep that in mind for when I add the next two grow beds though.

Do you get much solids in the grow beds with a radial flow filter? I'm going to start with a 200 ltr drum as rff hope that will get the bulk of it.

Do you think a bulk buy would go ok in Brissy for the media?
I will be stopping into the shop today to see what they say about a pallet price.
Author:  BnBob [ Jun 14th, '14, 09:52 ]
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4x4Eric wrote:
I will only just have enough grow bed space as it is to do the bactereia thing justice. I will keep that in mind for when I add the next two grow beds though.


My parents system will be running 2 X 300L beds set up as I described above with about 15KG of biomass.. They really need 3 beds to handle the load but just don't have the space.. Will be adding a small Biofilter (one our AP at the moment) to theirs to help provide extra BSS..

4x4Eric wrote:
Do you get much solids in the grow beds with a radial flow filter? I'm going to start with a 200 ltr drum as rff hope that will get the bulk of it.


I do from the small 60L jobbie on the AP here.. The retention time is just over 1min so a lot of the finer solids get through to the beds.. Will be doing a 100 or 200L RFF on the pears build & will have a 200L on our new one..
Author:  Tallman [ Jun 14th, '14, 11:28 ]
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Haha. "The pears build". I thought wow, going to try pear trees in the AP, that's out there!
Pears = parents...I'm a bit slow on the uptake today. Need a coffee. :-)
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