Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

These were like the ones I'd seen before in use at city farm, they were the ones they said were about $500 each. We nearly ended up with one but I felt guilty and had to give it back.



Will keep searching to see if I can find a cheap alternative, would be nice to get some mid to long term water usage data, even if plant growth rates are different, it will be interesting to follow..

There are free water meters outside most homes.

i think the bucket will do just fine as a water measurement tool along with a mark in the FT that shows where the water will be topped up to.

Very exciting experiment, should yield some pretty conclusive results in a few months

Yes, should be good to see how it turns out.
All autosiphons here so interested in the others.

First pictures to compare the plant growth in the systems. The auto siphon is now working

The next few weeks will be interesting.

Gee theres not much difference is there

Lettuces seem to be doing better in the constant flood and timed flood beds but the rest are close so far

Going to put my money on Flood/Drain

Yeah. But auto siphons are so much fun, I can sit and watch mine for hours!

And they sound cool when they fart and stop

Might be a bigger difference once the systems age a little. Another thing that could be checked later is how solids go in each system. Push a bit of PVC into the media and remove the clay from inside it. Wash and measure what settles.

You wanna give up smoking that stuff

The sad thing is I do not partake in that sort of thing, just like watching it work!

Do you think I might need professional help?

Yeah, not a lot of difference at the moment..

System 3 does seem a little better with many of the plants, but really way to early to tell much yet.

Nope just rum