Backyard Aquaponics
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Just throw out my box the other day as well... but kept the manual...

The 7600L is nominated as 75W... 80w in the US...

Just get the 9000 and it will give you plenty of punch for expansions and lots of blow back into the sump for aeration

I don't even blow back into my sump with my 9000...

What about this pump
http://www.boyu-australia.com/index.php ... cts_id=203

And what would everyone recommend for air pump
I was thinking an ac/dc combo with a battery>?

I don't have backup yet either.

Be careful with Boyu, I ordered an air pump about 5 months ago and still havnt recieved it. Send multiple emails without a single reply.

My ISP doesn't allow bOYU website - I'm with Exetel.

Do you think:
1m of 40mm pipe running horizontally (slight incline) elbowing from the growbed, running into 90mm pipe that runs for 2.5m slight incline - will work ?

Hey Jay, incline or decline?

decline

Jayendra
I used Pea gravel in the whole bed. I put the drain in back so I would not have to step over the pipe all of the time. It is a 3/4 pipe with a 2" bell siphon and they all drain into 1 1/4 back to fish tank.
The tomatoes I am learning but the pic dose show them to be weak. The tops are full and dark green. The stalks are strong. I need to make them bush instead of grow so tall. Is there a way to do that or do I need different tomatoes for that?

Tomatoes come in two types, determinate, and indeterminate. Determinate grow to a certain height, then stop. Indeterminate continue to grow until the plant dies. Indeterminate is more popular in the hydro crowd, because they can get more tomatoes out of them, and as such has been adopted by the AP crowd.

You can get indeterminate to bush out too, clip off the tops but don't take off the lower suckers, they will grow and flower too.

All relevant information for growing in a greenhouse with a raised bed design
The reason I had so much trouble designing where to put the sump/fish tank because I was stuck between not wanting to dig to deep and not wanting too high a growbeds, so I could grow decent sized tomato plants.

Look what we dug!




And another helper

What'd you do today son... "dug a hole Dad"...