Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Thank you Chris and Andreas. Indeed it is finally starting to look like something. Grow beds next, I'm thinking five 3'X6' with four going up the wall on the house side facing east. Still trying to figure out what they call a hydroponic plastic grow bed which isn't ridiculously priced. A local aquaponics guy said he bought four 3'X3' "cement mixing trays from Homedepot for less than $20 per. Everywhere I go they're real proud of their Hydroponic grow beds. They look flimsy as hell too.

Let me know when you're find them. I haven't seen anything like the nice ones they have in Oz either. Bunk feeders I can get with steel stands for around 65.00 on sale. They're about 6 x 2, so not really big enough. TC Lynx used them.there's always ibc, and then clad them with some wood. Pretty easy, and they look nice like that.

You call them nonexistent. LOL Why not make a wood and liner bed(s), then clad them with stone to tie everything together aesthetically?

Wood and stone go well together too. I think boss has done enough masonry work for a while.

But he said he liked playing / building with stone.

Good point. I do too, but after a few weeks, your hands need a break from the lime. I'm picturing nice redwood or cedar wrapped GB's. Then maybe a few nice propane fire features.

Man our imaginations could quickly spend Brian's money, LOL

I can't believe how well you guys "get me." I'm leaning toward steel frames for the two 6'x6' vertical garden wall spaces on either side of the French doors. As yet I haven't drawn those matching grow bed frames out. Yes, I will do wood cladding for the beds, and plastic fabric inside to hold media and water. I like the idea of water dripping from one bed to the next too and finally dripping right back into the fish tank

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Good morning

I have not done my newsletter regularly lately. Also I did not work to my normal degree on the aquaponics pond project yesterday. I fiddled about a bit, but nothing serious. Maybe I needed a break, probably right? Anywho, I took one. I was also planning to work on my Jeep, but that got postponed as well. We’re getting very close with the masonry, many issues have come to a head and since been worked out. We ordered a few things in preparation for Spring planting.

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It is already getting very hot in the greenhouse, so a high volume exhaust fan needs to be installed to cool it down. As well as this fan we plan on another louvered vent which we’ll place high on the opposite wall from the fan to create cross-ventilation. With a little luck that vent will be ordered this weekend.

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The fan controller thermostat is crucial to keep extremes in temperature in check. I wanted to get something programmable and with a network interface so I could monitor it from online. Kevin is working on an Ardunio controller monitor for us so this is good enough for now, and the cost is half of what a slightly more sophisticated device costs, so that is a good thing.

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using these little dealies is described in this youtube video



alrighty then, let me throw down a few update photos of our greenhouse pond system

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The thirty gallon drum filters go back here.

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Well, I guess I better finish out this week.

hope y’all are doing well

Brian Rodgers over and out

Getting closer

heck yeah I can smell the water

good news for New Mexico aquaponics http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/legislation.aspx?Chamber=H&LegType=B&LegNo=201&year=15
HOUSE BILL 201
52nd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2015
INTRODUCED BY
Alonzo Baldonado





AN ACT
RELATING TO FISHING; AMENDING A SECTION OF CHAPTER 17 NMSA 1978 TO ADD TILAPIA AND STRIPED BASS TO GAME FISH.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
SECTION 1. Section 17-2-3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1967, Chapter 8, Section 1, as amended) is amended to read:
"17-2-3. PROTECTED WILDLIFE SPECIES AND GAME FISH DEFINED.--
A. The following mammals are game mammals:
(1) all of the family Tayassuidae (javelina);
(2) within the family Bovidae:
(a) all of the genus Bison (American bison) except where raised in captivity for domestic or commercial meat production;
(b) all of the genus Capra (ibex) except for the domestic species of goats;
(c) all of the genus Ovis (bighorn sheep) except for the domestic species of sheep;
(d) all of the genus Ammotragus (aoudad);
(e) all of the genus Tragelaphus (kudu); and
(f) all of the genus Oryx (oryx);
(3) all of the family Antilocapridae (American pronghorn);
(4) all of the family Cervidae (elk and deer);
(5) all of the family Ochotonidae (pikas);
(6) all of the genus Sciurus (squirrels);
(7) all of the genus Tamiasciurus (red squirrels);
(8) all of the genus Marmota (marmots) of the family Sciuridae;
(9) all of the family Ursidae (bear); and
(10) all of the species concolor (cougar) of the genus Felis and family Felidae.
B. The following birds are game birds:
(1) all of the family Anatidae (waterfowl);
(2) all of the family Tetraonidae (grouse and ptarmigans);
(3) all of the family Phasianidae (quail, partridges and pheasants);
(4) all of the family Meleagridae (wild turkeys) except for the domestic strains of turkeys;
(5) all of the family Perdicidae (francolins);
(6) all of the family Gruidae (cranes);
(7) all of the family Rallidae (rails, coots and gallinules);
(8) all of the family Charadriidae (plovers, turnstones and surfbirds);
(9) all of the family Scolopacidae (shorebirds, snipe, sandpipers and curlews);
(10) all of the family Recurvirostridae (avocets and stilts);
(11) all of the family Phalaropodidae (phalaropes); and
(12) all of the family Columbidae (wild pigeons and doves) except for the domestic strains of pigeons.
C. The following fish are game fish:
(1) all of the family Salmonidae (trout);
(2) all of the family Esocidae (pike); (3) all of the family Ictaluridae (catfish);
(4) all introduced species of the family Serranidae (sea bass and white bass);
(5) all of the family Centrarchidae (sunfish, crappie and bass);
(6) all of the family Percidae (walleye pike and perch);
(7) all introduced species of the family Pomadasyidae (sargo); [and]
(8) all introduced species of the family Sciaenidae (corvina, bairdiella and redfish);
(9) all of the genus Oreochromis (tilapia); and
(10) all of the family Moronidae (striped bass, hybrid striped bass, white bass and others)."
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Does that mean that they now need a permit to raise bass and tilapia now that they are "game fish"?

probably, sounds like basic business and if nothing else, our government is all about money. Whoops, am I waxing cynical first thing in the morning? Hehe, let me go look and see if I need a permit for raising trout... Damn it's always something http://www.wildlife.state.nm.us/fishing/fish-vendors/ this is a fascinating page perhaps I'll do a copy and paste to my thread

Seems to be a importation permit, but I can't find New Mexico fish vendors . I did read previously that licensed fishermen can catch as many as the permit allows and what we do with them is up to us. http://www.wildlife.state.nm.us/download/enforcement/importation/applications/Fish-or-Fish_Eggs-Importation-Application.pdf