Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Here's my Indoor setup:
-4x 10gal.. Fish/Nursery Tanks
-1x 75gal.. Main Fish Tank

Am using 2x small pumps less then 300gph each pumping up at 5' to 5.5'ft high.
The filter is home made using 3x 5gal..buckets that i will be updating after over a year in use.

Here are some pic.. you can see my cheery tomato, going from the 75gal..tank that's in a 2" net pot on a floating bed out the window. I post more pic..later it's been raining for days here.

Thats a good idea running it out the window like that

Thanks

Here are some more pic.. of the cheery tomato the last two show 2x straight eight cucumber that i plant-it 4 days ago.

Here look at my filter setup going to be remaking the filter. On the first stage i never add-it cement to make bottom into a cone shape, so i have a lot solids that stay around the bottom of the bucket. On i have starting from the top i have pads then 1lbs. of ceramic (can shape) then 1lbs. of bamboo carbon. Last stage holds bio-balls (20pcs 1 1/2") and 2x pumps (less than 300gpheach). The video show the waste (smalls bad) that's settling from last Sunday.

Here the video showing the fish waste
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mibW_X4VHlw

Here is a pic..of my Fish tanks

Cool little set up mate. What fish have you got?

Top left- 3x Angel fish waiting for them bigger to add them to the 75gal.tank.
Top right- 9x neon, 2x Cory cat fish some, 12x+ Japanese snail & some red cherry shrimp.
Bottom left- 9x some type of feeder fish that came with 24x+ ghost shrimp, 2x Cory cat fish.
Bottom right- a lot of Molly/sword tail, 2x Cory cat fish, some red cherry shrimp
The 75gal. Tank- i caught it 2" 1x Oscar about it's about 7"+ long, 1x Red tailed shark about 6-7" and a Cat fish over 7" had them since baby.

Here is how the cherry tomato is doing, cant wait to eat some.





Going try to some of them outside over the weekend. look at the 2 week old pic post at top, growing fast

Here is the cucumber growing.

Here's a update, the cucumber are growing nice. About two weeks ago i moved one of them to the top bed with the Hydroton. The other one still on the floating bed here some pictures.





The tomato plant is doing great, i may need to add MaxiCrop Plus w/Iron when i get some.
Here you can see that i put some more tomato vine outside,still need to do the right window.





Here the outside, a lots of tomato, i been picking a lot of hornworm off.

wow look at that tommie go!!!

well done Eddy

It's good to see a tomato successfully growing almost media free.

It makes me think mine might work

Yes, the tomato were doing good till the hornworm showed up. So get some dipel dust and it's been working great. I had cut about half of the tomato plant off cause of the hormworm, eat all the leaves and left only the stems. Then the yellowing start it so got some maxicrop liquid seaweed with 2% iron, so lets see if can get her back growing tomato again. The roots are huge all most half the tank The cucumber seemed to not do well in DWC so i lost them.

I have yet to have any luck with cucumbers. I'm gonna keep trying though!