Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

you know what i think everytime i hear grow room, dont ya?

spent far too much time on "other forums" researching DWC and the like before BYAP

Hey what else am I to call it? Yeah I research on other forums still. There is quite a lot of information there on everything with lighting yada yada.

as long as we don't see ya on "COPS" lol is that even still on?

bad boys bad boys whatcha goooona doooo whatcha gooona doooo when they come for you!!!

I dunno lol. That show got out of control. I hope they canceled it heh. And its unlikely to see me on cops. I am doing all legal growing

Here are some pictures of my madness.

Autosiphon stuffs. I managed to get it going quite well. The growbeds are linked Bed-Bed Bed-Bed. Allows for less hardware. Works really well too!

The first picture has my sump in it too.

http://idisk.mac.com/slicerdicer/Public/autosiphon.jpg
http://idisk.mac.com/slicerdicer/Public/autosiphon1.jpg
http://idisk.mac.com/slicerdicer/Public/autosiphon2.jpg

Each bed has its own spigot to allow for maximum aeration.

http://idisk.mac.com/slicerdicer/Public/growbeds1.jpg

This is where the fish will live at. The water is cloudy as the rock is very hard to clean it will eventually settle and I will clean it out as I did with my other system.

http://idisk.mac.com/slicerdicer/Public/maintank.jpg

I should be getting my lights tomorrow and RED TEAM ASSEMBLE!!!!!! then I start planting!

I will add the other 8 grow beds next month along with a higher capacity pump I had to rob one from a experimental flood and drain system. My pump I wanted to use did not have enough head/gph :/ this one does 1880l/h with maximum of 2.3meters head.


And yes I will be adding more growing medium. The tanks fill a bit higher than the current amount of medium. However it cost me 6$ to fill all those

Sounds like you've been putting in the hard yards Slicer.... good to see it's all coming together for you

Ohh yeah its been a total PITA getting things done... Finding barrels, plumbing parts... Ideas.. Everything all combined its been a pain but its worth it. I am very excited. I have spent more than likely in this grow room alone already... maybe 100+ hours. However now that I have sources for everything and where to get it I should be able to get it done much faster.

Forgot to show some new hardware. The GUTRIPPER!!! It should allow me to do some damage to the fish that I will be harvesting.

http://idisk.mac.com/slicerdicer/Public/gutripper.jpg

I love Wusthof knives they get danger sharp

Figure I should link this here as it has my first homebuilt system linked in pictures.

http://backyardaquaponics.com/forum/vie ... php?t=2461

Blinding light x2 1000watt metal halide. One is installed here the other is not. Once I powerdown the lamps I will send a image of the reflectors I made. I might modify the design a bit but here you go for your viewing pleasure! You can even see my seedlings.

Both lights are now running.

Here is my pepper plant that I have transplanted from the other system. As you can see its HUGE.

That barrel is going to be my pepper barrel. Jalapeños, Habanero, Bolivian Rainbows and a few others will go in there as well as I will have other barrels with peppers in them.

I love peppers

Big enough to "slice & dice" mate .....

Looks very healthy.... be good when it starts to fruit, probably needed the transplant

starts to fruit? STARTS TO FRUIT?!?! there is about 20+ peppers on there growing right now... busted off about 10 of them moving it sadly

They are quite fragile but the fruit that came off of it. Nitrite card for scale. It was not ripe and ready to be eaten.

..... sorry mate.....

Those lights are huge.... How much heat do they put out???

Yeppers the lights are huge. They crank enough heat I killed my heater anyway. I do not think I will need to run the heater when the lights are on

http://www.pfolighting.com/growinfo_files/image006.jpg

Every site I come across says I need as much light as I do so I am doing that

I think I am going to modify my design of the lights a tad and raise them up further into the reflector however.