The Expensive Setup
Here is a quick tour of my setup. It's kinda loud with all of the water sounds, but hopefully this will work.
posted by Jon Ezrine at 5:27 PM
Saturday, January 21, 2012
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This online journal is dedicated to show friends and family the progress I am making on my Aquaponics Greenhouse. I have finished building out my system and am currently getting it up and operational.
Aquaponics is the cultivation of plants and fish in a recirculating environment. I plan to raise tilapia and use the fish waste to provide nutrients for a year-round vegetable garden. See the video and links below for more information.
Jon Ezrine
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2 Comments:
Looks really great! I've been looking forward to seeing your completed system for a long time, and it certainly lived up to my expectations. I'm impressed.
Since I wasn't using pre-built components, I had a lot of trouble getting the bell siphon to work reliably, so I ended up going to a timer instead. But because of that, I don't have a constant water level in my sump. I've been trying to figure out how to do a toilet-valve auto-refill like you have (right now I manually top up every week or so), but with the fluctuating water level I haven't been able to puzzle it out.
On the other hand, I've been considering going to constant flow instead of flood and drain, and that would do it. I was running constant-flow in the half-barrel side of the greenhouse, and flood & drain in the large center growbed, and honestly both sides seemed to do fine that way. I'm still mulling it all over.
Nice little video. I like that idea of using a toilet valve to keep the water level from getting too low. I always have trouble with that in the summer when the water seems to evaporate so fast. I assume if city water was just added in small quantities, periodically, it wouldn't be a problem. Now I just keep 5 gal containers full of water, and don't add them until they've mellowed out for 24 hours or so.
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