Backyard Aquaponics
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Here are some pictures

Hardware pics

Thanks Steve...

Steve -They look like huge raceways.
A great way to get more water past the roots and thus more nutrients.
Are they continuous flow?
Good pics too and thanks.

they have 4x 5m runs

yes continuous flow, but fairly slow flow rate

just read another post where u explained it.

so let me try to explain what I see and you can agree or correct me as required.

The growbeds are actually large DWC for lettuce and other growth using styrofoam or the like as support?

THe plumbing is held together with screws so that they are tight and firm but can also be pulled apart?

Just wanted to clear those up so I got the right point

Geeze dividing the water to equal parts, does the bottom have ridges to keep the waterlevel even?
That looks so simple-KISS all over again!!
using plastic to wrap foam in the shape of a trough(?).
Cheap as shit!!

nick, picture a styrofoam box with a sheet of plastic in it and over the edge. the lid is a sheet of polystyrene with approx 50mm hole drilled in it and net pots placed in these.

Water comes in one end from the back left corner and exits on the right centre via a stand pipe.

The plumbing looked like it was screwed together and sealed with silicone, i assume its for ease of dismantling if needed

Thats pretty much it.

makes life easy eh!
Guess the frame I was envisioning is going to be much lighter,
cheaper in cost and highly more mobile.
and forget buying shares in hydroton, start making nets to suit.
Don't tell anyone!!

sweet steve thanks. that really is a simple setup isn't it.

Steve when are you getting a block of foam to cut up?
I am thinking soon for me.

I'll be completing my gravel system first, then adding a dwc setup to that. Any other way is asking for trouble unless you want to run a seperate biofilter + settling tank + solids filter.

not me

Is that because of time constraints steve?

Nah, the KISS principle.

I can have a fully functioning gravel bed that i can grow veggies in, act as biofilter, solids filter and i don't have to worry about cleaning it twice a day. Then add DWC downline later on.

If the question was why dont i have my "proper" grow beds up and running then the answer is partly time constraints, partly becasue i got jade perchs which i'm waiting for some warmer weather before pumping 2000l/hr through open growbeds