My name is Stu and I'm brand new to AP. I have dabbled a little with gardens in the past, but I'm still a novice. I work in forestry though, so I have some knowledge of plant ecology and fish habitat. I'm looking to set up a small system in my apartment to grow some lettuce and peppers.
- 100L (~26 g) FT
- 2x 50L (~13 g) GB's
- 50L (~13 g) ST
- ~800Lph (210gph) pump (http://www.amazon.ca/Aquarium-Submersib ... water+pump)
Here's a pic of the general set-up I'm thinking of going with:
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The orientation will likely be slightly different in the end, but that is the basic idea.
I grabbed an AP book from the local library and this diagram is pretty much what I'm looking to do, I think, just with 2 GBs:
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I've got some more reading and shopping to do before I attempt to actually put it all together, so I was just wondering if anyone saw any glaring errors in my initial idea? Thanks!
HB
(MCFC)
. I would pump from the sump tank to the fishtank then have the SLO go to the two growbeds from a common pipe and each with a valve to control flow (or use Jayendra's trick of having elbows at ends of pipes to the GBs which can be twisted up or down to adjust flow). The GBs then dump their water via bell siphons into the ST >>> no solids in the ST means less wear on your pump. This is a CHIFT PIST set up. To be safe you could have another overflow from the FT to the ST in case of overfilling. You only need to turn over your FT volume every hour so your pump may give you too much flow for your GBs to deal with. Just add a T with a valve above your pump outlet to short circiut excess flow before it leaves the ST.