Backyard Aquaponics
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Just wanted to introduce our school aquaponics system. We did 4 grow beds that are 55 gallon barrels cut in half. We used river rock for our grow medium. Our tank is a 100 gallon livestock tank. Our system started great but has now hit some hiccups with our 25 tilapia which were successful for 2-3 months have all di d in the last week. Think we determined the cause but will see. Here are some pics of the early system and then from currrent system.

Welcome again Kyle

Note: Kyle has a post in Fish Problems portion of forum if anyone would like to post information to help out on that

perhaps paste a few pictures of the setup Kyle.

( how to post pictures > instructions here viewforum.php?f=4 )

Pictures

Water looks really dirty there but it cleared up pretty fast.

I wondered if you were hauling water out of the Mississippi river, seemed about the right color

Nice

has the water always been that color ? If so may need some better filtering in the system.
also note that the water level seems to be close to the top of the emdia - may be that you need a bit more media.

When you restart maybe re-think the tank to barrels and barrel to tank aspects.

How are you running your barrel filling and drain cycles ?

It's already cleared Darren, it was just from the initial setup -