Hi, I've been lurking a bit for a little while and decided to make an account.
After failing to grow a productive garden on my apartment deck for 3 years running, I decided I wanted to try growing things indoors with aquaponics. It took me a while to figure out because I'm terrible at building things, but eventually I managed to figure out the basics.
I'm not done yet, but here is what I've got so far:
- Two 50 litre growbeds, plumbed up with bell siphons.
- A 170 litre tub for my fish.
- A pump.
- A home-brewed LED growlight with 19 3 Watt Star LEDS (one I broke
). 3 Blue, 2 white and the rest are all red mounted on a big aluminium heatsink.I'm still waiting for an order of hydroton to arrive, which is the last big thing I need.
I'm going to probably use goldfish instead of tilapia, because I've got no clue where to find tilapia where I live. I'm going to try to grow some Kale, Tomatoes and bell peppers in it.
Here are some pictures I took of my setup so far:
My system with my grow lights turned on:
A little closer:
I built my own growlight out of 3W leds:
The system as a whole without the leds turned on.
The plumbing:
The bell part of the bellsiphon:
The standpipe part of the bellsiphon:
Hopefully it all works out.