Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Such a nice setup, looks permanent, the plants are so GREEN!

I have not lost any bream yet, but they are size segregated.

I however cannot seem to get them to eat? they are not interested in the trout food, or the micro pellets i got with them???

Mine wont take flake or floating food, they only take sinking pellets or other bream.

Currently on trout pellets

This system looks wicked.

mine eat the small pellets that we got with them ...

maybe you got all the picky ones that dont like their new surroundings

my small bream are eating nicely, but the big ones are still not interested?? dunno...

I have had one dead so far so not too bad

I have added a bit to the sink, but am not happy with the height. I think i will raise it up about 150mm to give a more comfortable work height.



THe sink is plumbed into the sump tank that is stocked with marron. Hopefully they will eat some of the fish scraps. The water from cleaning fish and vegetables is added to the system to top up losses from evaporation and transpiration

We harvested our second trout, and cooked a full aquaponic meal.

Selecting from the menu




preparing the ingredients

The catch, and a happy fisherman





Finished cuts ready for cooking

hehehe lol its Steve Irwin

Dinner for two:

AP Rainbow trout grilled with lemon pepper on a bed of lemon rice with a side of steamed AP spinach and brocoli and raw AP carrots and peas





This makes my AP system operational, there is still some finishing off and tweaking to do, but with my first harvest i think its safe to say "it works".

A big thankyou to Brendo, Smithy, Boris01 and Jana for their help.
A big thankyou to Joel and Faye for their high quality BYAP parts and advice.

going to have a BBQ soon to show it off so all who want to come are invited

Great stuff Ducky... enjoy mate....

you SURE youve got enough fish there for a fully AP bbq ? or are you gonna supplement it woth store-bought things , like beer ...

no fair ! you cheat by dumping fifty litres of seasol in your system every other day , no wonder my veggies aint growing !

BYO fish and beer, but all the salad you can eat

If in doubt, Seasol it.

Kirks been fishing! yay! You should send that photo to the newspaper and tell them where you caught it. Well done to you (and to Jana for the photography, am I right.) Did you have red or white wine with that?
I guess there is a few people with trout on their menu at this time. Better get in before its too late as the temps are rising fast.