Backyard Aquaponics
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this is the peace of land that iam setting a AP ,
tank
place for growbeds
and were i have power

Looks like a nice piece of land.
Being outdoors, are birds a problem in your area?

if i can get some tilapias mossambic i gone put some heaters, if not just gone use somme goldys. i gone put a greenhouse over the tank and the growbeds , so now i need somme ideas and help

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Hi Zix,
nice big tank do you know the volume of it? Make sure you give it a good shovelling out before putting your fish in there

The distance to the power pole looks to be about 50m? Will you be able to get it safely to the fish tank?

Oh, look at all that ripe citrus!

What do you want help with zix?

+1 seems you have most things covered

is almost 12000L, no trouble whit power ,the help that i need is best way to put GB.
i dont use sump , so GB must be above tank.
the tank gets water true a channel but only fill half, so gone close that and fill from borehole, needs to be clean. must wait bit because i have a tennent that use the grass for the sheep so can not put my truck in there , he must cut the grass first.
beside the citrus i have lots of Diospyros kaki http://www.floridata.com/ref/D/diosp_ka.cfm

oh persimmons as well

zix - what do you have to use as growbeds? I do this:

for media i gone use hydroton (leca) ,for grow beds i was thinkting of wood whit liner but my father have lots of old bathtubs so not sure yet

If you can get the tubs for free and plumbing bits at reasonable cost, then use as many of those as you can. Then start building lumber-n-liner grow beds to make up what you need for your stocking density.

in the New/old forun i have been told tha can put almost 200Tilapias , is that true, is tilapia
good , i usualy only eat seawater fish ,like seabass,goldenbream,soul and others , i live near the sea and do sucba diving hunting, the only freshwater fish that ever eat was trout and didnt like,

I find that the way the fish is prepared makes all the difference to me. I'm not a big fan of eating fish usually but the cook has prepared tilapia for me that I liked.

So long as you can keep the water above 55 F or 13 C the tilapia (depending on breed) should be able to survive. To get good growth though you want water much much warmer than that most of the time.

i have asked some friends in chiclids foruns to get me some, so far iam gettin a M and 2F of tilapia maree, and they are trying to get some mossambic , but they are a bit afraid that i dont lose some in rivers because they can survive here. my idea is to keep water a lest 18/20 C from november till march. , the rest i must worry about over 30c temp