Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

I'm heading up to Pirie in the first few days of the new year to take all your crabs and whiting away.

Fine with me, I have SP now..

PM if you wanna drop in while you're up here..

Will do.

Yeah for sure. I've got some time off in Jan but lots to do including a trip to Lincoln. Hopefully we would be able to make it.

I am in Adelaide, 5074 like Moderator. Just joined. Would like to get in touch with Adelaide people. I need some help for where to get what in Adelaide. See my introduction in New Member Introduction and Member Systems.

Sejin

Adelaide water has been sitting at pH8 for a while.

Hi everyone!
Add another one to the 'aquaponics obsessed' club. I live in Enfield (5085), and grew up on a farm in the Mid North- only bout 20 mins away from you wolvenstine .
Planning on making an IBC system when i can get back to the farm and gather up all the bits and pieces i need (including the IBC's)- prob wont be for another month or so unfortunately...
Looking forward to meeting some other like-minded people soon! Do SA peeps have catchups often?
Cheers,
Josh

Hey slugisachamp.

If they do, I dont get invited.

What do/did the farm IBC's contain ?

I'll be using a couple that used to hold glyphosphate (ie. roundup)..
I wasn't too keen on using them in the beginning, but have done some research- the glyphosphate molecules are linked to a salt, making it super water soluble. With half a dozen good rinses, and a detergent/pressure clean i think i wont have a problem. Also, dad has told me that glyphosphate is strictly a foliar spray- so it wont work if it only goes on plant roots etc, it doesn't bio accumulate, and breaks down quickly in the environment. He mentioned something like that as soon as it comes in contact with any clay particles, it immediately becomes inert (ie. very strongly bonds to clay).

There are also has a couple IBC's that held treflan (and are stained yellow because of the dye used). To put it bluntly, i'm not going anywhere near those ones... That stuff is a whole new kettle of fish....

Pat The Barrel Man out at Dry Creek has IBCs for $30. They are as new but have had PVA glue in them.

I got one for my growbeds as the PVA can be cleaned off when IBC is opened up. Took a long time to get off though. A mate lent me his pressure spray and that worked well.

Thanks DunderOZ,
If i need to get additional IBC's i will keep that in mind! Dry Creek is pretty close to me too!

for anyone else looking... its actually pat the DRUM man, searched my ass off trying to find a number or address for the barrel man until i google street viewed his place to get the name. the only things that come up in searches for barrel man are posts on this forum haha.

he still has these at $30 (or at least had at 6am this morning when he returned my email and put 2 aside for me till next week). cheers for the tip. cheap IBC's for everyone

there web site is http://www.crsdrums.com.au/

Sorry Dan

Well done on finding the correct name and getting some for yourself.

Be warned thought, they take a bit of elbow grease to clean depending on the type of PVA glue it was.

Easiest way I think is to blast it of with hot soapy pressurised water.

I got my 200L barrel sumps from there too.

All the best, let us know how you go.

no need to be sorry its a great find, ive been looking for better priced* IBC's for months and i have plenty of time but little money.

oh and i should also add, so people dont go there at 330pm like i did to find the place is shut....

open hours are 6am-3pm mon-thurs and 6am-2pm fridays


*im what some might call a tight ass

I used to think I was a tight ass but now I realise that I am actually environmentally friendly. The less I buy, the lower my carbon footprint