Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

I presume that means we are the right people but I need to stay a bit closer to my mum in adelaide as we look out for her a bit.

When I find a place, how long should I wait until I introduce the landlord to aquaponics ?

It will only be a 2 IBC system for the time being, and they are nice and clean and shiny, but I still think it might be a good idea not to rock up on moving day with a fishfarm under my arm

mmm inspection days. I havent had one of those since I was a lad ... they must suck. I'll have to get a big tarp and drape it over the system and claim "Its just an enormous box I like to keep there with a pump running inside". Or I could gift wrap it on the day and claim, "It'll be gone by tomorrow, I was just about to post it."

just hand over a smoked trout, wink, and say in a lowered voice, nice, big, empty yard, isnt it?

You're doing the right thing by renting. I can't believe the bubble down under is still on but I've read it's taking much longer for houses to sell.

I'd be more worried about the goat dung experiments myself - might have to give those up entirely

Of course if you start with the goat dung bit it will take the sting out of the aquaponics intro - new landlord might not even notice .

Yay!

Found a house.

Actually mrs Bullwinkle did. I sat on my arse.

But as of next week I live in sunny Adelaide.

Which is a good thing because I now have an address to have my BYAP 2010 photo comp prize sent to

Yay!

so anyone want to buy pretty much 3 of everything you might find in a home?

I (read mrs bullwinkle) managed to find a new home for the aquaponics system and all the animals that had moved in with us over the last 10 years (thanks people), and now that we have a new home we can start collecting crap all over again. I plan to start with collecting a new smaller revised aquaponics system, and building from there.

This also means my blog will start again... soonish.

Thanks for all who said nice things about it, and thanks also to all those who haven't yet said anything nice about it, but plan to soon

I moved my 11 silvers to my new house yeasterday. Moving fish is scary.

No losses. Its a good thing i didnt have the 100 or so i would have liked to have.

Wet scoria is really heavy

Nice bullwinkle any pics? Hiw big will the new ap be??

... well done mate...

Don't forget which box you packed the camera in. Need pics of the new place.
Luck to you and yourn.

Congratulations . Glad to hear you'll be back, you have a new place and got the fish moved without loss.

Good on you Bullwinklell did you have far to move [like hrs miles] and as you set up post photos we love photos

BullwinkleII, did you ever try to add a free rolling ball to get the flow diverter to switch quicker?

re sequencer ball - nope

all ive been doing of late is moaning, moving, and driving

Man, we humans collect a lot of crap if we stay in one place for 10 years.

My new lease explicitly states no fish inside or outside.

I'll be reinterpreting the word "fish" and the words "inside" and "outside"

For starters I've been thinking about a disguise or two. I was thinking about cutting off the top 20 cm of an IBC, inverting it, and using it as a lid for the rest of the IBC. By filling it with water and putting an additional lid on that, I might be able to create an illusion of an empty ibc being used as a rainwater tank, to hold water for my hydroponic veggie garden. You know that distortion you get when you look into a container full of water? I'm thinking I might get away with a casual look if its got a lid and its a bit dark and covered with algae. the fish would be in the real FT underneath.

or...

I was thinking I might just make a FT lid by gluing some scoria onto it so it looked like another empty garden bed

or...

Making a mega system in the shed, behind a fake wall that looked like cardboard boxes stacked floor to ceiling.

or...

(and this is my favoured approach) respecting the owners wishes. Perhaps invent pooponics or somit. I dont get it. I'd rather have a tenant growing fish in the backyard rather than taking a dump in an empty fishtank once a day

It's going to lower the property values, but pooponics it is. I might move the system to the front lawn.

Actually I might grow escargot. I ran the idea through the invention engine, and it spat out a novel approach to keeping snails from roaming... and another for feeding.... and one for keeping the entire kit clean without having to do anything. Clean is very important when raising snails.

I had a bit of a crack at heliciculture a while back when I grew some petit gris (Helix Aspersa) in a fridge lying on its back with a home made electric fence running round the rim. I even used the freezer as a breeding lot.

Snails are yummy and easy to grow and would work well with this aquaponics caper. Growing snails aquaponics style might give me a new challenge, and I might even be able to contribute something to the knowledge of the world.

Or not.

Might just sit on my butt for a few weeks. Might even drink some beer.

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