Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Just interested to know if something to do with aquaponics has happened recently down in Bunbury, we've had a real rush of people in the last week or so from down that way.

Faye did a delivery down there on Monday with the truck, I took an order on the same day for beds/clay that will be picked up tomorrow. Someone has just come in today from Bunbury for an bed/stand/clay etc.

There's another order of system that we need to put together for a pick up early next week.

And a guy came in last week and bought his second system to take back down to Bunbury..

Bunbury seems to be a real AP hotspot at the moment over on this side of Australia.

good to hear new systems being created in bunbury now. I have just dismantled my first trial bathtub system after a succesful trial and am about to begin my IBC system whic i hope to have ticking over in the next few month or so, depending how busy i am.

Nothing that I am aware of.

Howdy Raffs.....

Good to see, it really seems like there's getting to be a bit of a movement down there...

Perhaps people who have seen yours have spread the word a bit privateer.

I started selling off the overwintered Silvers over the last week or two and I recon about every second person who's picked some up has been talking of expanding their systems. I recon you still got a few more sales coming up from down here shortly too going by yesterdays customers words.

Your selling my silvers?

Should still have enough for you OBO

Oi.... Stop pinching all the fish Obo......

If I can get a shedload of silvers from the Tafe I will be able to let gav sell my ones, the small ones anyway

The TAFE ones are not even spawned yet where as what I have is about 9 months old. This year I kept some in a heated tank and on average there about 4 times the size of the ones in unheated tanks and still way bigger than the ones from the ponds.

Gimme Gimme

Gav are you going to look at getting stock from Tafe, or rely on your spawning solely?

This year I have more Brood Fish, more spawning tanks, more larvae ponds and heaps more water than last year. So, hopefully will end up with plenty of fry. I am hoping that last seasons poor results was a one off caused by the drought.

So when is your first spawn Troutman... end of month... or not until couple of weeks into October...?

All right...hands are up. I am one of the guilty party. I have just set up my system and have just put in five gold fish to try and get the system started as I await my order of Silvers from Troutman (can I assume that I can pick my order up?)

Anyway here are some picks of my system in progress (aiming to add another grow bed early next year)...the first pic is my no-dig vege patch.

Coming in this Saturday to do the course. Looking forward to it.

You wont need the silverbeet in the ground - it loves AP.