Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

talking about living on the edge, I was trying to work out where to purge these fish. So I went to B , got shitty, bought a $30 1000 lph pond pump, went to FIL's house, "borrowed" a 240 litre wheelie bin that he wasn't using, and headed home. Got home, walked in the door, had a moment of clarity ! The bath! "heather, can I purge the fish in the bathroom?" "So long as you put the door back on so the kids can't get in!" Couldn't believe my ears, so before she could change her mind, the bath has a pump in it and a bucket biofilter with gravel from my system and becomes the final home for my fish before they hit the barbie. It's really perfect, I can drain the bath every day and fill up with rainwater, and if they get a bit cold, I can just turn on the hot tap! Also bought 25 kg's of pool salt for $6.80 so I will put 800 grams in each time I change out the water, which I will do every day for the next 4 days. Now to pick my victims.

rofl

"bath time Em and Ang! Mind the fish!"

Yeah, Angusw will have to wear wathers in the bath for the next few months to protect himself hehehehe

Am very pleased with myself having just set up my first autosyphon in the bathtub purging system. 1000 lph pump 13mm line in, 19mm flexihose from the hydro shop in a loop. After changing the loop from garden hose(too low a flow out) to the flexihose, iot worked first time. I love it!

What are you siphoning from-to Mon???

Pumping to big bucket with gravel, with loop atosyphon straight back into the bath.

Ah Ok.... thought you might just be trickling it through the filter and into bath

Oh dear, she's let AP get a foot inside the house, And not just fish, but pumps and biofilters, the whole bloody lot, there's no stopping him now...

You must have been a good boy..

Started off by doing that but hthought I had the arvo to myself so I would try an autosyphon for much more effective filtering. Very glad I did.

She must have been feeling bad for not liking the barra To be perfectly honest, I think we have both lost our minds but it's fun!

Hot water cylinder would make a darn good header/heater tank Mon ..... into the AP toolkit for the holesaw and Sisatek .......LOL

You'd be able to get them through winter no problems.... probably grow them up to about a kg ..... LOL

I think if she saw me throw in any feed I would be a dead man LOL

this is getting interesting reading..................

5 fish are in the bath, water is clearing up nicely after the initial dirty up with the dug out gravel. I'm not sure if they like the slamon coloured bath.....

once again... fussy barra!