Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Hi All

Myself, Col and my husband have been reading the forum for a couple of months now. Thankyou all for taking the time to post success and failures.

We thought we would show you ours.

To start of we had a normal soil vege patch. 15mtrs by 5 mtrs, it is made of timber, reo for the walls and shade cloth covering it. The reason for the reo is to keep our two garden loving dogs out, and this stuff, out of alot of fencing worked.

Then i found this website, and we then thought maybe we could ditch the soil and have an aquaponics raised garden bed.

We first started with 1 IBC. Just so we could see what pitfalls there were with it.

Well, that went great guns. Bruce then took over and has now converted the whole lot to aquaponics.

He joined 2 IBC's together to make a 1600 ltr tank, which have 4 x 300 ltr grow beds plus to tall pots off the side. That is one lot.

He then has done the other side of the shade house the same.

So we have all together, 3200 ltrs of tank and 2400 ltrs of grow bed.

One of the tanks has 50 odd silver perch in it, which we got 6 months ago as 75mm fingerlings, now they are at least 180mm.

The other tank has 10 x 15cm trout, which i am sure will have at least 20-25 more when we can get them.

The system is a constant flow, which seems to go well for us. The growth we have had from the vegetable has been outstanding. 1000 times better than soil and our water bill has come down alot.

These photos are when we first started 6 months ago.

I will add more when i have re-sized them.

Welcome aboard

Inspiring Col and Bruce. Look forward to more photos too.

Thanks for the welcome.

I have added some more photos, since i know you guys love photos.

These are when the system was about 4 months old.

welcome, and I love your nice development!

And more photos.......

These ones are from 4 weeks ago.

I have since thinned things out a bit, and i will update will more photos in a couple of days.

And yes, i did remove the mint from the grow bed....

Well, we have been a bit busy getting the other tank and grow beds up and running.

I have thinned out the current grow beds as there was alot of growth from the veges.
The chooks and ourselves had a good feed.

Hi All

Well its been 3 months since i have updated so here it is.


We have finished the other half of the green house and this is basically 12 weeks growth.

and we have culled a couple of trout..

I have never had any success in growing cauliflower or broccoli in the the ground. But these are beauties. Thanks my little fishys these are the best....

Beautiful growth there guys. Wish i had a few more beds like yours

Looking fantastic, well done

Thanks Guys

Just thought i would do an update.

Things are growing along nicely.