Backyard Aquaponics
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Hi all I was just looking at the Clark tanks website and they had this trough available, just wondering if anyone has had any experience with their products?

http://www.clarktanks.com.au/Farm-Products-Troughs.htm

You lose a little depth at the sides. I like the round ones next to it. It may depend on how big your system is going to be.

What sort of pricing??

Looks like they could work. Depends on the pricing of course. I personally like deep grow beds for good solids handling capacity.

Just following up on this.

I think many people would like to know what the pricing is, but the originakl poster seems to have done a post and run.

The 2400 x 1000 x 550 is roughly $530 delivered. This will give a 1320 litre capacity. Ofcourse the real capacity will be less due to the corners.

Sadly, it seems like a good deal given whats available in the Australian market currently. Alhtough I did buy a watertank for $625 which if cut at 550mm will give 1643 litres of volume at a diametre of 1.95m

1320LT / $530 = 2.49 lp$
1643LT / $625 = 2.63 lp$

Anyone have a better Litres per $ ratio?

I'm not sure if its better per litre, but I worked out that per sq/m of growbedspace @ 300mm deep, it was hard to go past the 1100mm round fish ponds from "B". two provides about the same area as the 500l BYAP/Murrays growbeds, for about 1/2 the price.

mmmm...might go have a look then....

There is 2 numbers we need to look at in this equation

m2 of space
m3 of filtration

Considerations include are they food grade and uv stabilised?
Also BYAP beds when stocked with 500l media have free board, so would probably actually be more like 700 litre growbeds.

Yes....food grade and uv stabilisation would need to be considered

"Free board"?

vlt - Faye means space/volume remaining. When you put 500L of media into the BYAP growbed, it's not full up to the top - there's still about 40-50mm to go.

Gotcha....

BTw, been searching who the Melbourne distributors are for BYAP....not on the main website...would have thought thats the place to have it.

Try here http://www.growfresh-aquaponics.com.au/content.php?id=2

cheers

If you follow that original link they actually list the volume - the one you mention there (2400x1000x550) is 820L - at $530 it puts it roughly the same value as a BYAP growbed (which is 500L plus "freeload") @ ~$375.

Thanks for that...seems I get tunnelled into calculating my own numbers....

With those numbers, the BYAP are quite competitive....