Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

I've finally go the go ahead from hubby to use our courtyard for our aquaponics experiment. We have ordered the Book/DVD package but haven't heard back from Joel yet.

Anyway, here is a picture of our courtyard.

http://picasaweb.google.com/leonie.j.pr ... 2531362834

As you can see there is plenty of room. I am wondering about electricity and keeping everything waterproof. Should we get a small greenhouse to cover our system? Also, has anyone tried using solar panels to provide some of the power to the pumps?

welcome to the madness Mungbean! Make sure that your tank is small person proof.
I'm sure your book will be in the mail very soon, if not already (he's pretty good at his mailing is our Joel )

Not to mention Kookaburra proof.

There are some other threads on solar.
Try this
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For outdoor power get an electrician to install an outdoor power point. Other than that rain gets in your system when uncovered but this is not a big issue as long as you can direct overflow somewhere (gardenbed?). Greenhouse would give you higher temps which is good for growth, unless you want trout which won't like Sydney summer anyway.

welcome to the BYAP forum Mungbeans. We are a global community;)

And we drift from AP, to solar energy, to self-suffiency, to way off in the weeds on some topics.

Take a look at Steve and Ange's courtyard system. That may fit in with your situation. There are as many ways to do it as there are people here.