Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

It's what Cairns has instead of lawn

its a weed that grows up near Cairns a lot, Mimosa. It is a little creeping acacia type plant with prickles. Has a little purple puffball flower. When you touch it the leaves close up on themselves, hence the name. Did I mention the prickles? There are LOTS of them, and so when you try to pull out the massive taproot you really have to grab hold... of all the prickles

Didn't you have non staining garden gloves to help what was your favourite colour again

EllKayBee, I'd say it was our tank you saw. My husband went there yesterday and he said he'd had another enquiry about an aquaponics tank. We're paying $300 for our fish tank and $200 each for the grow beds.

I've given Gewn from Sunland a link to this site so she might wander in.

Thought it might be yours, looked very nice indeed - going to price one at another tank place next week (aquaplated) and if around the same will wander up to Foley's again and order it there.

I'm near to Caboolture and although the distance is longer, it is quicker to head north on the highway than to battle traffic across town.

I think there is a few that would like to talk to Gwen, she certainly would be welcome - thanks for the contacts

Les

Seems there may soon be a source for "organic" fish food.... up Hervey Bay way for those that don't know the area...

trying nopt to be a negative prick rupe, but i know the crap (excuse the pun) that goes down the dunny (was guilty as a very young teen)............see where i'm going?

I thought AP was supposed to be able to filter that sort of thing out?

Urangan eh? My uncle lives there.

Perhaps it should be pointed out that Wide Bay Water Corporation uses tertiary treatment principles to produce arguably the most "potable" water end product anywhere in Australia.... essentially (other than predujice) drinkable....

The waste treatment facility is the "showcase" for Australian Waste treatment plants.....

Then it's filtered by the fish.... then the fish is (presumably dried) ground up into pellets and fed to other fish......

I'd be confident in using it.... frankly I think that there are probably more strigent controls on the production process than in perhaps other commercial operations....

Who knows just what source products/contaminants are within the "Ridleys" product process for instance... nothing implied about Ridleys

to be honest i know nothing about the effluent treatment at the place you mentioned (or anyother place for that matter!)

Part of the reason for their treatment approach is their location... Hervey Bay..... the sensitivity of the Bay and reef ecosystems meant no discharge of anything nasty, or nutrient loaded.....

Amazing what can be done when you are told you have to...

Our local treatment scheme at Gerroa is also just about up to the same standard.... now is operating at almost total water re-use and cost break even.... farmers buy it (cheap) to irrigate their paddocks... rest goes to local golf course, playing fields and parks and gardens.....

The initial proposal was for a pipeline out to sea.... Doh....dur

where do all the contaminants go?

Far as I know the sludge wastes are dried/sterialised at high temp and made into fertiliser

i was more talking about nasties that find their way into the sewerage system that shouldn't, you know, dudes that flush chems that they shouldn't really be flushing?

I'll check out and get some info from my mate up the road... he's big in the waste water treatment business...

From what I know (if you're thinking heavy metals etc) most stuff is extracted, or at least captured by giant sand filters....

sand is certainly the best filter going....

Kind of wondering just what sort of concentrations of dumped nasties might actually be.... would tend to think that in the overall scheme of things, they may be actually quite small concentrations

I'll ask and see what the man can point us toward....