Backyard Aquaponics
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Ehh... no.

Hmm, didnt call that one very well did I.

Perhaps you should have suggested it wasn't the first as he was obviously prepared and knew it would be a mad scramble?

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5th

And in what kind of tank will you be raising this one in?

lol that escalated quite quickly..

It is my job as a mod to escalate things...

Ehh...wicker!

Doesn't seem very water tight to me...

Congadulations Stu!!!

Before interns, farmers had kids. A big family meant more hands on the farm. My wife's grandfather came from a big farming family. Actually, they must not have been that good at farming, because they became moon shiners...

Yeah I got an ethical problem employing other peoples kids for nothing but mine will be "contributing to the family".

I remember being told that so many times chasing cows in the snow or dealing with fly struck sheep.

I've got 5 myself, oldest is 8, in a few months he'll be learning to fillet tilapia

Congratulations Stuart


My wife and I both have two siblings but her aunty has ten kids... None of them farmers.
We're not having any. We are not farming either.(except back yard )
Back to topic.
How do you stop fish being sucked into the bottom drain or is the flange big enough that the suction isn't that strong? And if that's the case does it still clean the bottom of the tank?

The purpose of the wide flat disk at the bottom is to increase the area of the inlet and hence to decrease the velocity of the water entering the drain so that the fish don't get sucked into the drain.

Obviously the slower entry velocities are not a problem or the AQ industry wouldn't use this design so widely.

The solids are not really being sucked into the drain which would require a fast velocity flow. What is happening is that the solids are being collected into the center of the tank and they are kind of just happening to fall into the drain.