Backyard Aquaponics
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OK, managed to get some work done a couple of nights this week - so the third and final wall is nearly completed.

Which is good as 3 m³ of road base, a Dingo, and a plate compactor will be getting dropped of late this arvo for backfilling behind the walls to be levelled off with crusher dust mixed with a little cement.

Should be wild fun in 40+ºC heat

I will be thinking of you Nigel, around 5pm with line in the southern ocean around 30c

Thanks Mate - I'm sure that'll help me get through the weekend - no doubt photos next week of your catch will also help

Yeah it took a long time but finally convinced her, but with a few conditions attached eg seperate area for swimming and for fish.
I focussed on the ideas of not swimming in nasty+stinky chemicals, fresh organic veges and herbs all year, fresh fish at your doorstep, actually using the pool all year and not just a couple of months, it will be a novelty for people to come and see, and hopefully it will actually save money and not cost money.
Now I just have to get it to work!

Thanks Erik

I' think what I'll do is leave it a couple of years and once the "novelty factor" has worn off, have a go then.

My other AP system will have proved itself by then so that should help support the argument, along with the points you've used as well.

Cheers

hoping to catch up with King George of Whiting, but looking forward to your photo's of Blood, Sweat and Beers as well

Nige them photo's above are taken in the future so you have done sweet fa yet , date stamp today and 2 hours away

Yeah, stupid camera time machine - now that I've been to the future - it's not that great

I would suggest that Nocky would have "forgotten" his camera, for his great southern fishing holiday.

Bit like not having a set of scales when it is weighing in time

well we have now rick, had scales in the handle of the net but didn't want to blow arse without them being australian certified

Good luck with the work Nige, hope to see plenty of progress pics when I'm Back

Jeez - haven't been that hot in quite a while - definitely the wrong weekend to be doing what I did.

43ºC in the shade 2:00pm Sunday, and I didn't finish till 7:30pm (and it was still 37ºC ) - I was literally jumping in the pool every hour to bring my body temperature back down.

Anyway, more progress photos;

Nice! Great work! The Rent-A-Dingo looks so small though...

Mark

I get the feeling that this system is going to be something special when it is finished.

I love the ant keeperouteras.

Yeah Mark, true - I felt like the guy in the hire advert with the dinky little umbrella and the machine going "putt putt".
The upside is that even though I have a ½ acre block, parts of it have very restricted access - to the point where I have only 10-15mm on each side in one spot.


Thanks Simo, yeah I'm hoping to setup it up so that I have a lot of flexibility/capability to try a few new things that I've thunked up over the last year.

The ant keeperouteras are an example of that - they're my GB "boots" to keep slugs and snails out and hopefully ants as well. The outer rim will be filled with pool salt. The inner has 4 inches of beeswax in the bottom to keep any water off of the feet and prevent them from rusting away - I'm then assuming there will nearly always be some water on top of the wax and that should keep the ants away. It's all theory at this point.

I can see an excellent AP/house warming party coming up!!

The antkeeperouters should work great on the GB legs, I'm just wondering what you are going to design to keep the little blighters from crawling up your pipes??

It's a good thought Rick, but going over the system in my head I can't see where the ants are going to get onto the pipes. They should all be above the ground I think.....

Oh, they can of course climb the 1000 L tanks and get onto the back-to-the-FT-pipes, but none of those will be in direct contact with the GB.

For the sake of detail - each GB will drain directly into the tank underneath it, and the water from there will flow back to the FT, therefore no contact between tanks and GBs.