Backyard Aquaponics
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Hello all, a bit about my system. Right now I only have one grow bed working and two under construction. The working bed is fiberglass. The two I’m working on are made of a wood frame with lath and stucco as the liner. All three of the beds use bell type auto siphons. The fish [tilapia] are kept in three “mega bins” plumbed together. The tanks are also plumbed so that they over flow to a sump. In the sump there is one pump split 6 ways to supply the beds and tanks. The whole thing sits on a concrete slab with a wooden frame topped with sun tuff roofing material. Hope you enjoy the pics, Jon

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Jack Herer

Hi stucco.
Systems coming along.

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When I go, I want it to be peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like his passengers.

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I got the auto siphons hooked up yesterday. They are working like a charm.

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"Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet".
Jack Herer

It was a good week. I found a local gent interested in ap enough to take my old system out of the yard. I think he may have been more excited than me. Poor guy! He’s got the ap bug bad. Earlier in the week we picked up a load of rock. Today we started the washing process my helper told me “washing rock is no fun”. He stayed hard at it for a bit, but he has the attention span of a three year old and he works for lollipops.

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"Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet".
Jack Herer

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"Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet".
Jack Herer

Those greens are looking good!

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Aquaponic Lynx
TCLynx Bought The Farm
Old Main System
Old 300 gallon System

Thanks, we’ve had a few meals off of them and the kale. They are great sautéd with turkey bacon.

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"Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet".
Jack Herer

stucco, what was your layup schedule for plastering the new GB? From the pictures it looks like you did a ferrocement then followed with with another layer?

wish you were closer stucco.... would like that old system

im in NC.. a little to far for me

nice new setup

jT

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My GH AP System
http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=5259&start=0

The finish layer is watertight coat by sto. http://www.stocorp.com/servicessto.nsf/ ... estions#R7 It’s used on architectural foam parapet bands. Most of the synthetic stucco companies have their version. There are also epoxy grouts and mortars that are for use in contact with potable water. http://www.sikaindustry.com/search.htm? ... 11&ie=UTF-

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"Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet".
Jack Herer

The links did nothttp://www.stocorp.com/webfiles.nsf/ ... +tb%20.pdf work the first time http://www.sikacorp.com/app-cpd-mortars-us.pdf

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"Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet".
Jack Herer

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"Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet".
Jack Herer

I messed that all up and I ran out of edits

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"Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet".
Jack Herer

I was able to take your lead and get to the information. Thx!

Good! I’ve never used the quote button before. I made a grow bed this week using styro foam. It has the same watertight coat. it turned out to be heavier than I wanted, but it looks good and holds water.

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"Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet".
Jack Herer