Backyard Aquaponics
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Some photos of our 5 month old system. Under gravel filter, 2 grow beds and 40 SP. We're in Perth metro so have had relentless heat but now fully shaded and doing better. Last photo is our land based veggies



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Here's a photo of the shade construction - much happier plants


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This is our yabbie pond - see discussion under "fish problems" - yabbies turning up their toes!


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Looks fantastic!

Thanks Charlie - if only we could keep the yabbies alive we'd be thrilled! Fish are growing well and the veggies are coming along in leaps and bounds - in fact I'm looking at the spinach and thinking that's dinner tonight


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looks good, where did you get the GB and FT?

your yabbie pond looks way to open, maybe they are getting sunstroke

but seriously, I think they would prefer more shelter, maybe some shade and lots more hidey-holes.

they like dark and murky.

Hi slow boat - we got the gear from woodvale fish and lily - Calinda was very helpful. In regards to the yabbies, I've got a max/min thermometer in at the moment and don't think the heat is the culprit - we're back to the PH theory but my calcium additions don't seem to be helping. I take your point about shelter, we've got a largeish shade cloth floating in there (we call it the yabbie apartment and quite a few off cuts of retic pipe. Think maybe we'll eat all the grown ups and just let the babies grow up (we've got at least three batches of babies)


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Update August 2014 - system is thriving with 51 fish who are just starting to eat again after easing right off over the winter.



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Hiya H&R, looking great, nice work.

Thanks skeggley - we're pretty happy with it - we get lots of salad greens every night and we've had no problems with the fish - looking forward to our first fish harvests over summer.


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