Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

New member here guys. Born in Sydney, family moved to US when I was 3, so I elected dual citizenship when I turned 16.

Anyway, just built my system, and eager to get this thing rolling. I am using two of the 55 gallon "blue barrels", with one cut in half for my two grow beds.

Will be using goldfish to get the system going, but plan on moving to something more advanced once I get my feet wet--no pun intended!

Will post photos of my system and eager to learn more about the ratio of fish to growbed, as I am not sure how many goldfish I will need to support my system.

Anyway, hello all and I look forward to learning!

Hi jhedges2

Welcome to the forum looking forward to hearing about your system.

Don't forget lots of photo's because, around here, "pictures are money" and to be truthful it really helps make problem solving so much easier than wading through text trying to visualize someones system.

Love those blue barrels as I've used a few myself.