Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

i used autocad back in the day.. still took me a little while to get going with google sketch..

I have used Visio for house plans.

I see you are in Ohio. I am in Wisconsin. I saw your pictures of snow and can empathize.

We are putting a greenhouse on the end of our house and putting and AP in it. My hope is that we can run it all year long. I may have to add some heat in the winter. We heat with wood, so I may run a heat exchanger into the house. Here is my post:

http://backyardaquaponics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=12540

This morning the building inspector is coming over to approve the post holes. When that is done, I will start building the structure.

Nice pictures Keith! That's one big drain pipe!

so one of my gb's wasn't draining, i was trying to figure out why the sipon wouldn't break.. well.. the pipe that goes through the gb wall got loose when i was filling the bed, so i had to dig one corner out, and get it re-attached.. after i got that done, i re-planted the part of the bed that was wiped out (right next to the strawbs, but i pulled them out and replanted, they're going fine!)
after i got all that done, i finally got my 2 20 gallon tanks, and my 40 long setup and filled..
while checking over the rest of the system, i found that my marmokreb is in berry!
i also made the frame for my ft cover, and picked up bird netting
things to do this week - make my crowding net for the pool...get a couple more air pumps for the tanks i got set up..
saturday i'm (hopefully) going out to the toledo area to get some yellow perch and blue tilapia!

Whats a marmokreb keith?

a self cloning crayfish (actually, the only self cloning crayfsih)

cool..... I know what Im doing for the next hour!

thanks..... love googling new stuff, especially if its got a shell on it

Oh... and congrats on fatherhood!!!

well, i took some pic's of the berried marm, and all of the stuff that's started to sprout, i even have my first indoor tomato! but i couldn't upload the pic's to my pc by the time i got done last night, i'll try to edit them down to size to post tonight (what windows app do you use to resize photos?)
the fish farm that i thought had the blue tilapia actually has moz's.. so when i started searching for the blue's i found a farm that's a little further away (about a 4 hour drive) but has a better price on yp as well, so i'll be going out there either friday morning or tuesday - probably tuesday since i have to go to a wedding in ny saturday - leaving friday
i need to get more test tubes for my api test kit, broke another one last night, and i'm down to one tube,, takes a while to get things tested like that!
and i need to get more 1/2" pvc to finish the tank cover and make a crowding net
lots to do, but things are moving along pretty well

MS Paint works fine for resizing photos.

Which Windoze OS do you use; XP, Vista, 7, 8?

xp

thanks for the tip on the app!
here's a few pic's
berried marm;

a couple of sprouts!;

taking a little drive to the fish farm today!
it's "only" 228miles (360km) away.. about a 4 hour drive
getting 100 yellow perch, and a couple pounds of blue tilapia (they only sell by the pound, the fish are 5 to 10")
he doesn't get home until 4:00pm, so not much sense in hitting the road till noon..
i'll take some pic's tonight!
here's where i'm going;
http://www.shelbyfishfarm.com/