Backyard Aquaponics
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Hello,
I have changed my plan of building a green house, I will use my indoor swimming pool that have not used for few years. Plan is to build a tank inside there with the size of 5ft X 4 ft X 8ft
There are tall windows all three sides that not attached to the house. So, I can place the grow beds next to windows.
Will have 4 grow beds with sizes of 3ft X 8 ft X 2 ft (18 inches will be filled with river rock,

For water pump and air pump I have been looking around, as of now I am looking at this one:
http://www.aquacave.com/Sequence-4300-S ... -P498.aspx
and for the air pump this one:
http://www.growwurks.com/ecoplus-commer ... watts.aspx

Are these okay?
Also about the air stones, which one is better and how many of them should I get?
http://www.growwurks.com/ecoplus-8-air- ... 16-id.aspx
or
http://www.growwurks.com/ecoplus-large- ... -4-id.aspx

Thanks ahead for all the good comments and sugestion.

GI Joe

That's a lot of water flow for 4 beds, we use pumps with about half that flow rate for systems with 4-6 beds of about that size.

Might be a bit of a cost saving for you..

Thanks for your input. I will try to find something smaller and ask again. If you have a model number, that would help.
Regards

I think I found a good one.
Check it out please.

http://www.aquacave.com/Reeflo-Snapper- ... 3C765.aspx

It seams this one has a better quality. They are offerring 5 years warranty on it.

What is the difference in the water pumps like

reeflo
dart
Barracuda
hammerhead

are these just labels, or has something to do with their design?

If there si a difference, which one is better for aquaponics usage?

you may get a faster response and by more people if you ask in the hardware sub forum.
here is a sticky post dedicated to reliable, and hopefully cheap pumps viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1409