Backyard Aquaponics
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Here check out this http://www.mikebentley.com/ponds/homemadefilters.htm

Nice.

Some bedtime reading.

What do you Cal cheap and How far are you willing to travel to Pick up IBC's..

I found a great guy out my way that had Food grade IBC's.. Non Harmfull Chemical IBC's for $100..

When I got my 2 they had Clothes Washing Liquid in them.. After a Good Clean and a soak with PP and Air they cleaned up fine..

1 Tank is used to store Tap water that is conditioned to be used for Pond Top ups's..
- I have a constant flow of Air into the tank and let it sit for a day's to weeks Dependant on when it is needed..

The Other is used to collect Rain water of a colour-bond Roof..

The guys is in the Cranbourne area and advertises on Ebay.au..


Juergen

$100 is a pretty good price... especially if the contents were benign...

Look on ebay and search for "1000 water"

1 mob in Laverton North. Used for "industrial liquid wax". Not sure what that means. $75 each.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1000-ltr-Wat ... 45fb0f7a36

1 mob in Mitcham. Used for "transport of fish and cod liver oils". $65 each.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1000-Litre-W ... 19c5e901bd

Whilst I am at it, "Buttress to BSP" adaptor for IBC.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1000L-IBC-wa ... 2563f3257e

I found this link a while ago

http://www.simpletrade.com.au/furniture ... /800221331

vegetable oil

have been cleaned - $99

in sunshine though..

Quick question...

For a Fishtank would it be preferrable to have:

10 ibc's joined together

or

2 round 5000 Litre round tanks joined together

???

What ever you chose you are gonna need a lot of grow beds

Yup....

Probably going to end up with 6000 litres of filter and 15 sqm of growspace.

Regarding the bottom drain(s), if it is going to be a gravity fed system, just make your own. You can use a plastic tub as a mold for concrete in which you can run your own air tubes though. You make it with pvc legs that you can cut to the appropriate height for your purposes. It is a good idea to coat with something like Pondguard to help with the durability. I think I found a link about this once, as that is what I did, so I will post once I find it.

Thanks furnaceboy

Getting closer to starting the setup.

Just finishing the retaining walls in the next couple of weeks then I can start digging!

Getting closer to handover!

Attached are a couple of pics to get a better idea of the layout I am implementing.

This photo shows the fishtank as marked out by the stakes and rope. Growbeds will bealong the back fence and on the retaining walls.


This photo shows the other side of the yard where another row of growbeds will be.

Look forward to seeing it come together VLT...

are you going 2 Fish tanks[Rainwater tanks]

Or are you going to make your Own..

I also found a great source for IBC's.. I have 4 on order and the price is just unbelievable.. Not free but good for What was in them..

Juergen

Me too! Moved out of my house at the start of the year. So a very long time...itching to move back home!




I'm going to reuse my old 2000L stock trough from my test system and a 5000L rain water tank.

I've already got a dozen IBC's which have been used for a couple of years as someone's drinking water tanks out in the bush.

Just need my damn house back and I can call in the excavator. I tried digging to find out how deep the sewer pipe was...took about an hour to dig a 300mm diameter by 300mm deep hole!