Jaymie's Perfectly Sized System & the Fantastic Fish

Jaymie

No, they're all plumbed in together. We'll wait and see whether this works (the amount of water etc). They should all be flood and drain. We haven't played with the float on the pump yet (haven't even started it up yet).

When the sump is levelled I'll be able to run water through the system properly.

Jaymie

I'm thinking with the towers I should be able to have really slow flow into the coco peat ones, because it has such good water retention properties. The towers will flow straight out into the blue drums below them.

steve

will there be gravel or pre-filtering before the towers? if so in what config?

gnash06

WOW thats looking awsome,alot of hard work I`ll bet , but the end result is brilliant.
Well Done

Food&Fish

gnash06 wrote:

:shock: WOW thats looking awsome,alot of hard work I`ll bet , but the end result is brilliant.
Well Done

Yes well done jamie when its all running and you dont have to touch it then you can sit back and smile and say yea

Jaymie

here's this afternoon's jobs. Only got five of the drums drains put in. The end caps on the towers are siliconed and screwed on to the pipes.
Two scoops of gravel fills five half drums. (2/3 m3)

Food&Fish

Jaymie wrote:

here's this afternoon's jobs. Only got five of the drums drains put in. The end caps on the towers are siliconed and screwed on to the pipes.
Two scoops of gravel fills five half drums. (2/3 m3)

whats going in the towers strawbs!

Gary Donaldson

Hi Jaymie,

Your set up is coming along nicely - you're certainly going to eating a lot of fish when the whole thing's up and running.

Depending on what you're growing in the coco - peat, you may find that continuous flow is going to leave you a bit damp....but a timer and a small pump......or a timer and a solenoid valve.....will enable you to water all of your coco peat systems in a very controlled manner.

Gary

Gary Donaldson

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.....apparently it has been having heated discussions with another cat in our carport (rowdy buggers)

......it's even more likely they're doing a little family planning

EllKayBee

Way to go J, congrats on joining THE :sith:

CLUB , see you got stuck in the nervous 990's for awhile but patience and timing prevailed.

Love the way your system is coming together - might have to put concrete blocks on the aqauponians stock list as well :cheers:

Jaymie

well we also found out that the cat in question no longer needs to be discussing family planning anymore :shock:

So the nights are quieter now

Jaymie

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might have to put concrete blocks on the aqauponians stock list as well

free railway sleepers too

aquamad

Great looking system there Jaymie - I am impressed! :mrgreen:

Comming to think about it, I wont let you see my system next time you are in town

as mine is one continious experiment, not nearly as neat and well laid out as yours - keep up the good work, you make us proude!

Jaymie

fine then (humph), well you can't see ours then either :tongue2:

you keep promising visits, then you just disappoint us :wink:

aquamad

I had planned to visit between christmas and new years, but the front axel on the 4X4 is oozeing grease and makeing a realy odd sound, so leaving town with it is out till I get enough money together to get it fixed :shock:

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