Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

How can I add photos of my progress in building my garden?

love your work Mathew!! Awesome fish. How old were they?

This is just a view of my back yard where I intend to place the GBs and someday a greenhouse.

Another view from under the wendy house. Every thing seems intact, and amazingly the water does not smell. I used to hear frogs croaking from in there - shame.

This is a snap shot taken through a whole in the wendy house flooring (rotten boards). As you can see, there is still water in the pool, and at the time of purchasing the property, the pump and filter still worked (I have not been brave enough to try it since and am sure the pump needs changing/service).

Here We Go!!!!

Frank is the one in the blue jacket and I am Gil in the maroon jacket.

Here is my plumbing.

The top 40mm pipe is the pump.

The middle 90mm pipe is the SLO.

The bottom 40mm pipe is the over flow from the fish tank. There can be anything from a drip to a small trickle depending on the height of the water in the sump tank.

To stop algae growing, turning the water green and to stop the trout from jumping out I got some 90% shade cloth to cover the tank.

One day a nice man turned up with some fish. Thankyou Troutman

My sump consists of 4 x 220 litre tubs interconnected with 90mm pipe. Here you can see two of them joined. Again, uniseals are used to penetrate the walls of the tubs.

Each growbed uses the BYAP delivery method. That is a 'ring' of pipe around the edge with 8mm holes drilled underneath.

Not all holes have water flowing out of mine, but if some get blocked up with solids the others will allow water to flow out of them. Over time the blockages should resolve themselves.

The more I open up the flow to the growbed, the more holes which have water flowing from them.