⚠️ This forum has been restored as a read-only archive so the knowledge shared by the community over many years remains available. New registrations and posting are disabled.

View unanswered posts | View active topics It is currently Mar 20th, '26, 01:23 


Portal » Board index » Aquaponic Discussions » Members Systems

All times are UTC + 8 hours




Post new topic Reply to topic  Page 1 of 3
  [ 38 posts ]  Go to page 1, 2, 3  Next
  Previous topic | Next topic 
Author Message
e@rth
 Post subject: E@rth´s first system
PostPosted: Oct 27th, '12, 03:01 
Newbie
Newbie

Joined: Jun 26th, '12, 01:45
Posts: 31
Gender: Male
Are you human?: BeerMonster!
Location: South Africa
Hello ,

I have just stared out on the Aquaponic ´s road, and have loads to learn. Here is how I started my system (a big thank you for IBC of Aquponics) for getting me on track!

Here are some pic´s and adventures I had along the way.

I bought the IBC off the classifieds, food grade , contained palmolein oil , while I was paying the nice man they loaded the IBC on my van with a forklift , when I got home I found that there was still about 250L of solid palmolein (liquefies at about 25 deg C) in the bottom of the tank , and I could not move it off the van!


Attachments:
File comment: Home what now?
1.JPG
1.JPG [ 31.35 KiB | Viewed 3842 times ]
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
    Advertisement
 
e@rth
PostPosted: Oct 27th, '12, 03:07 
Newbie
Newbie

Joined: Jun 26th, '12, 01:45
Posts: 31
Gender: Male
Are you human?: BeerMonster!
Location: South Africa
Now to try to melt this stuff so that I can get it off my van , where is global warming when you need it!


Attachments:
File comment: Heater & space blanket
3.JPG
3.JPG [ 33.64 KiB | Viewed 3839 times ]
File comment: Hook up an IR light
2.JPG
2.JPG [ 20.06 KiB | Viewed 3839 times ]
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
e@rth
PostPosted: Oct 27th, '12, 03:11 
Newbie
Newbie

Joined: Jun 26th, '12, 01:45
Posts: 31
Gender: Male
Are you human?: BeerMonster!
Location: South Africa
Yuk I can´t believe we eat this stuff, 90% of deep fried take always are cooked in this palmolein!!


Attachments:
File comment: Yuk!
4.JPG
4.JPG [ 33.5 KiB | Viewed 3839 times ]
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
Dave Donley
PostPosted: Oct 27th, '12, 03:21 
Moderator
Moderator
User avatar

Joined: May 27th, '06, 04:57
Posts: 6480
Images: 0
Gender: Male
Are you human?: I'm a pleasure droid
Location: Frederick, Maryland
Yuck! What a mess...
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
e@rth
PostPosted: Oct 27th, '12, 03:24 
Newbie
Newbie

Joined: Jun 26th, '12, 01:45
Posts: 31
Gender: Male
Are you human?: BeerMonster!
Location: South Africa
All cutting and welding complete. I need to make an extra strong support, needs to be Kid, dog and monkey proof. (For sure the local troop of vervet monkey´s, will be visiting and helping them self’s when the veggies are ripe!)


Attachments:
File comment: All cutting and welding complete
5.JPG
5.JPG [ 27.01 KiB | Viewed 3837 times ]
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
e@rth
PostPosted: Oct 27th, '12, 04:15 
Newbie
Newbie

Joined: Jun 26th, '12, 01:45
Posts: 31
Gender: Male
Are you human?: BeerMonster!
Location: South Africa
My first choice would have been the expanded clay balls, but they are very expensive and difficult to find here. So I settled with gravel from the local hardware yard.
It was really thirsty work cleaning, but the gravel cleaned up really well, now I have got some pretty grow medium! The GB is really heavy and I am glad I when with the large angle iron frame ( 90 X90 X 6mm)


Attachments:
7.JPG
7.JPG [ 30.59 KiB | Viewed 3832 times ]
6.JPG
6.JPG [ 27.85 KiB | Viewed 3832 times ]
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
ccBear
PostPosted: Oct 27th, '12, 04:29 
A posting God
A posting God
User avatar

Joined: Nov 3rd, '07, 10:30
Posts: 2307
Gender: Male
Are you human?: Only after 3 coffees
Location: Happy Valley, Adelaide, SA,Australia.
Welcome, great start there. Look forward to seeing more
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
e@rth
PostPosted: Oct 27th, '12, 16:18 
Newbie
Newbie

Joined: Jun 26th, '12, 01:45
Posts: 31
Gender: Male
Are you human?: BeerMonster!
Location: South Africa
Even after a good wash, when I started circulating, the water turned brown. Made a quick filer and circulated for 2 days , the water is now crystal clear.


Attachments:
9.JPG
9.JPG [ 24.5 KiB | Viewed 3798 times ]
8.JPG
8.JPG [ 16.38 KiB | Viewed 3798 times ]


Last edited by e@rth on Oct 27th, '12, 16:52, edited 1 time in total.
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
e@rth
PostPosted: Oct 27th, '12, 16:21 
Newbie
Newbie

Joined: Jun 26th, '12, 01:45
Posts: 31
Gender: Male
Are you human?: BeerMonster!
Location: South Africa
Plants are in, system circulating well & no leaks.


Attachments:
10.JPG
10.JPG [ 28.45 KiB | Viewed 3796 times ]
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
e@rth
PostPosted: Oct 27th, '12, 16:28 
Newbie
Newbie

Joined: Jun 26th, '12, 01:45
Posts: 31
Gender: Male
Are you human?: BeerMonster!
Location: South Africa
Here are the my 2 test subjects , tilapia Mozambique , I was hoping to get some redbreast tilapia ( rendalli ) , they are more herbervorish and I think they would be better with algae control. But I could not find any and I was keen to get some fish in the tank!


Attachments:
11.JPG
11.JPG [ 24.66 KiB | Viewed 3796 times ]
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
e@rth
PostPosted: Oct 27th, '12, 16:40 
Newbie
Newbie

Joined: Jun 26th, '12, 01:45
Posts: 31
Gender: Male
Are you human?: BeerMonster!
Location: South Africa
Got the rest of the fish today, they went in OK , but are not eating .I put some rocks and Aquatic plants form the local dam in the tank , they are all hiding out there and seem to be a bit nervous , but no floaters so far.


Attachments:
12.JPG
12.JPG [ 23.79 KiB | Viewed 3800 times ]
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
e@rth
PostPosted: Oct 27th, '12, 16:42 
Newbie
Newbie

Joined: Jun 26th, '12, 01:45
Posts: 31
Gender: Male
Are you human?: BeerMonster!
Location: South Africa
Man! This Aquaponic ´s stuff is really thirsty work!


Attachments:
13.JPG
13.JPG [ 30.95 KiB | Viewed 3800 times ]
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
e@rth
PostPosted: Oct 27th, '12, 16:51 
Newbie
Newbie

Joined: Jun 26th, '12, 01:45
Posts: 31
Gender: Male
Are you human?: BeerMonster!
Location: South Africa
One week later, fish are eating and plants are looking good!


Attachments:
14.JPG
14.JPG [ 35.51 KiB | Viewed 3799 times ]
15.JPG
15.JPG [ 27.52 KiB | Viewed 3799 times ]
16.JPG
16.JPG [ 26.42 KiB | Viewed 3799 times ]
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
e@rth
PostPosted: Oct 28th, '12, 18:26 
Newbie
Newbie

Joined: Jun 26th, '12, 01:45
Posts: 31
Gender: Male
Are you human?: BeerMonster!
Location: South Africa
Good morning,

I was wondering if it would be a good idea to fill the bottom of the FT with gravel?
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
faye
PostPosted: Oct 28th, '12, 20:49 
Moderator
Moderator
User avatar

Joined: Jan 11th, '07, 14:20
Posts: 6449
Location: Perth
Gender: Female
Location: Jandakot
No, not really. Uneaten food, fish waste etc can settle and contribute to poor water quality. Keep the tanks clear in my opinion.
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  Page 1 of 3
  [ 38 posts ]  Go to page 1, 2, 3  Next

Portal » Board index » Aquaponic Discussions » Members Systems

All times are UTC + 8 hours


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  

Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group
Portal by phpBB3 Portal © phpBB Türkiye
[ Time : 0.092s | 16 Queries | GZIP : Off ]