Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Yep... you just don't need a truck load of fish... to produce a lot of veges...

Interesting observation in my community tank just then as the fish are now feeding on the floating skrettings even with the lid up. I noticed the tandanus cats hoovering the surface picking up pellets. Thought they were only bottom feeders but obviously not

The Jadies are like a little puppy dog just lots of them...

Yeah i have a feather fin catfish in my community tank and he vacuums the surface flat out when the food goes in

Yeah I wondered what was mouthing their way through the food when they would only hit the surface with the lid down. I could see something doing it through the crack under the lid. The big silvers hit the food like mad trout, splashing so much that water drips out of the tank all around it. Two more months and some silvers will get a taste test from me

I want Jades too!! *throws tantrum and storms out*

I raise your jades with gilgies and marron hurrumph

Had the last two of last years Jades for lunch today. Very tasty
So this whole feed is from the ap apart from the cucumber in the salad

Water temp in the big tank 32C and the silvers and catfish are hungry. This also shows the catfish feeding at the surface

Added two more 160L black tub growbeds the the greenhouse system over the last few days. Had problems with leaky bulkhead fittings but seems all good now.
So now the system is 500L fish tank and 960L of CF growbeds. System will have a lot more water in it now after adding new beds and converting the other beds to CF. Hoping to be able to pump more food into the Jades now, as they want it
Clay for the beds


Setup to run rinse water out to the garden. The canna clay only needs one or two rinses


Here they are, on the other side of the greenhouse from the fish tank. Took a bit of imaginative plumbing to get the water back to the fish tank