Backyard Aquaponics
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Hi from Adelaide,

I have just about finished a DIY aquaponics system with a white river stone media grow bed It has 2 500 l fish tanks and two 220l tanks all lined up and joined together.
In 1 200l tank sits a submersible pump which pumps water to the 1000l grow bed 1800mm X 1200mm X 3-400mm deep,which in turn drains to an end 500l tank. 10 Barramundi in each 500 l tanks now about 150mm long and an assortment of food in the garden bed.

I think it is still cycling with both nitrites and amonnia at 0.25 this system has been cycling for about 4 weeks now so here I am to learn and contribute.

Cheers

Welcome..... sounds like you have the bug.

And dont forget we all like to see pictures.

Hi BD and welcome
Great to have another Aquaponist on board but be warned it's addictive although there are worse things to be addicted to.
Will be interesting to see how the barra perform in your climate
and as Embi wrote pics are great

Hi folks Here are my fish tanks the two on he left are connected by the two drain valves now submersible pump now in first tank on left, which goes up to a 1000l garden bed 1800mm X 1200mm X 3-400mm filled with white river stones about 20mm. water then drains back to the far right tank as you can see I still need to tidy a few things up including THE ELECTRICS. The white poly styrene box on the right contains a super quiet air pump which at the moment feeds the larger fish tanks.

Cheers

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Hi again

Here is a picture of the garden bed it really is quite flat and not as curved as it looks the fish tanks are down to the right.

Cheers.

Hi BD you have the grow bed ratio right, for 500 lts of grow bed you can have around 20 fish also, but price of Barra (here anyway) you should be fine for now, system should be almost cycled at them readings but be careful in hot temps the Amm and Nitrite don't get much higher, because of the diameter of your main tanks I think you have enough fish as barra like the bottom, nice looking system, tidy things up? why no one else does, no point being a trend setter

And 1 more,

The bottom of the bed has a 40mm then reduced to 25mm drain coming out on the right hand side of picture which is about 400mm higher than the top of the fish tanks.

The top of the bed sits about 1000mm of the ground accessed by a couple of steps which goes up the back yard.

Hi Noky...... Thanks for the info. I agree with you,tidying things up, well sometimes, but I really do have to answer to the boss, she'll kill me if I mess her pergola up.

Ha,Ha Ha.

Oh well

Cheers

Mines been Nagging for a year now, just have another beer and the noise fades away

Hi Embi and Desertrat...............thanks for the welcome.

Err..... I am still learning how to get the pictures small enough to post, but I will eventually get there.

Additive...... yep. I think my major problem at the moment is I'm still to eager to see things happen, but thats me all over I guess.

Yes, those beautiful fish are going to be a challenge in the winter, especially keeping the tanks warm enough, economically.Thats when we get down to 0-5C regularly overnight.

Cheers.

BD search for PIXresizer on google and download it's free, when running click load image find pic and change size to 800 x 600, but if box is selected maintain aspect ratio then type in 800 and the other box will change, select the box same as original and click save, rename what you like and then will be fine to upload, I have tried the work with multiple file option but can't get it to work properly, doing one at time only takes a few seconds anyhow

Or just download the Microsoft Image Resizer.... install... then right click any file (or group of files)... and select resize... select 800x600... creates a scaled file with an added "medium" designation ... leaves the original file...

Can resize to CE sizing for mobiles etc...

http://download.microsoft.com/download/ ... ySetup.exe

Yes agree MS image resizer is easier and free
Looks like a pretty tidy system why waste time tidying things up when you could be spending the time making the system bigger!!!!!

never seen the MS one, I use the Minimal MS products as possible, somewhere along the line they will cause a system crash and the feared BSOD
PIX resizer is also free and hasn't crashed my pc yet and works with 2 clicks and 1 type

Image Resizer is also free... easy to use.... and has never caused a crash in over 5 years... and works with two clicks... and selection of the file... or files...

P.S.... and I've only had about two BSOD in about 5 years... and they both related to problems with a video card flaking out... not exactly a MS problem/cause...

If you're getting regular BSOD... there's something physically wrong with your computer... a third party application.... or you've really screwed with your configuration in some other way...

nah haven't had BSOD since I gave IE the flick