Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

This is my first aquaponics system.
1000 litre fish tank
cattle trough for a grow bed
200 lite blue tank for a sump
12 volt battery backup using relay from Murray for power outages, very useful with all the storms recently. This runs a 12 voly bilge pump commected to a fountain sprinkler type head.
The sumo has one of Marrays floating switches that has been faultless.
I've been running for a bit over three weeks, ammonia now at 2ppm, nitarates at 10 ppm. Bed innocultaed wtih bacteria starter from aquarium.
I've order 2 of Murrays 585 litre grow bed to add in.

grow bed

fish tank with shower head backup

Nice to see pics of another system up and running Mark...

Sump

YOu are a quiet achiever mark!What are your fish? Nice job

Fish Tank

Battery Backup

So you pump from your sump to your growbed and return to tank??

or are you draining growbed to sump and pumping into bottom of fish tank

trying to follow flow of last picture...

Edited... Ignore above... should have waited for you to finish posting... all clear to me now...

Fish: 3 test bed goldies, 3 tandus tandus catfish, 1 bristlenose catfish, 26 silver pearch

Man love the sticker on the fishtank

Pump from the tank to the growbed on a timer, then returns to the sump and pumped to the fish tank controlled by a floating switch in the sump. The battery is just to aerate in case of power failure. "The Book" talks about power failures and loss of fish, so I put this in from the start.

The tank has had Sodium Hydroxide in it. No big deal and easy to neutratise.

Hi Mark,

I like your use of the long stock trough as a grow bed.

I had a similar idea some time back but when I priced a new trough it scared me off. I'd jump at it if I could obtain some secondhand units.

Good luck with your new system!

Gary

MF was saying that in USA he could get the troughs in bulk orders of 1000 for $5 each. This did not include any type of stand.