Backyard Aquaponics
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Hey Chillidude coming along well.

BTW the air pump sitting in the plastic box, on the pigmy perch tank. I have the same type of pump which gets quiet warm to touch. UR trapping the heat in the box, and picking up that hot air and transferring it to the tank (fine in winter) may not seem much but it all adds up.

This weekend coming I thought it was weekend after, shit let me know as we need to tidy up and get reddies, will get reddies during the week if that's the case

You can never see Pygmy Perch Nigel they are as invisible as BSF in Narrogin, who know's where they hide they just appear every now and then

Whoops - sorry Nocky - my bad - you're right, it's in a fortnight.

Yeah, good point chainsaw - thanks.

Will probably be something I utilise in Winter rather than just letting all that heat go to waste. Seeing as I have paid for it

Mmmm....I can definitly see that you have been slacking again.

Looking pretty good all the same

Yeah, I particularly like the way the weather has kicked in helped too - since there's been no heavy work left, it's been nice and relatively cool

It should warm up today CD, so no excuses back into it

Yeah, only did a little bit though. Rest of the day got spent putting up curtain rails and putting down a home brew batch to ferment .

Replaced the 40L/min air pump with a 120L/min so that there is now enough air for the third sump in the pictures (which will be where the reddies go initially).

Nige not sure about the reddies as posted elsewhere, will see how they go on gambusia,

I had to mow the lawn because of your pending visit , was about 30c at 8am and 75% humidity don't know why I had to mow the lawn just so we can drink beer

Something then after a few beers you can lay on the nice lawn....

It would have been more comfortable when it was longer Joel you're meant to be on the boys side anyway

OK - I'm not dead - progress has restarted. Have spent most of the weekend and some of last night sealing the FT as it's rendered brickwork with a concrete floor.

Ordered all (hopefully) of the plumbing I'll need to connect everything up, and Deon of Perth Irrigation Supplies kindly dropped it all off instead of me having to pay for truck delivery - thanks Deon.

A few piccies of the FT as work progressed. The tank is 3.4 x 1.6 x 0.55.

Have thown this piccy in for context to show just what an integral part of the house the FT is. Can see them getting fed 6+ times a day

What was the hole under the window that you have patched up for?

Just before they poured the slab, the architect got the builder to put some pipework there for me to integrate into the AP system, without checking with me. The end result was that it was too low and I was effectively losing about a ¼ of the depth of the pond. Also, there were 2 x 90° elbows before I could access the outside end which adds significantly to the head that the pump has to overcome, and I already have a fair amount of lift that the pump needs to cope with as the GBs are all on a tiered slope.

So, I cut them off and patched over it.