Backyard Aquaponics
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looking fantastic Jaymie can`t wait to see it all going.

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http://www.backyardfarming.com.au/phpbb ... f=24&t=270

name change when the fish get here (coupla weeks)

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looking real nice.

well, after carefully installing the greenhouse film (before the wind got up) and putting up the shadecloth, I dutifully went off to a four-year olds birthday party, then Alex and I got dressed up to go to his work Christmas party. THEN it rained. :toothy2: 50mm with 40km/hr winds. That certainly tested the film

There are a couple of spots where we need to re-tension the film to stop pooling, and we'll need to get the gutter up above the fish tank fairly soon, or the whole thing will overflow (just yesterday I was thinking I would have to top up the tank - no need now - but I might have to drain some out)

If we don't get any more rain today, we can get away with the post-party lazies, but we'll have to see.

Have to unload the new timber from the ute today, before we go off to another party (at a local farm, in the paddock which will be good and muddy for the kids to play in!

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Ah Jaymie,

Rain, mud... reminds me of when I was up in NT for a couple of years....

Started raining fish... not men.... FISH

True story, mudskippers actually

Yeah, and I caught a fish This big!

nah.. absolutely gospel true story....

Ponds with mudskippers dry out big whillies (mini tornados) suck them up into big bubbling clouds, cool, condense and ...

rain fish, without a word of a lie

hmmmmn Well I haven't seen that yet. I have heard of it though.

actually, come to think of it, it's a bit like natures own little AP experiment...

'cept feeding the fish to a bloody big grow bed along with the water.

PS believe it or not the skippers where still alive and gasping for air/water.

Next day pools where full of them

Aint nature amazing

And to thing it is believed to have all come from a "Big Bang"

Not by me, mind you.

so who was banging what

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the fish, obviously!

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I splurged today and bought a pool thermometer, this afternoon the water was 27oC. Air temp was 31oC.

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your post got me thinking so I checked mine - it is at 29C, and the pool ia at 27C (my system has a heater in it )

(my neighbours must think I am dilly - mucking about with a torch and a thermometer at this time of the night! )

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