Aquaponics system. Need people to critique my system

[helomech]

Well only got 3 days of overtime, instead of the 7 I was hoping for. But will have the option for lots more overtime for a little while. So might be doing a 21 day hitch offshore starting on Wednesday.

Anyways got my tilapia taken care of today.

Here is a pic of the ones I am hoping will stay inside and breed for us all year. My son had a blast catching them with a fishing pole, tried every other way with no luck, so they have a small hole where the fish hook was. The water should clear up soon, the rocks in the bottom where a little dirty.



And here are some of the babies, got all of them out of the breeder tank outside, and put some in this aquarium, and the rest in my duckweed tank.

[helomech]

Well we figured out that with all these babies we where going to run out of fish tank soon. So I went to walmart and bought a 10 foot by 30 inch deep swimming pool for 100 bucks. Got it leveled out, and set up, filled with water and letting it aerate. Going to let the water turn green before I put the tilapia fry in. For those not familiar with using "green" water, basically you let the sun cause an algae bloom, and the tilapia feed off the algae and don't require any other food. Sure the water won't be pretty, but the fish will be healthy and no cost on feed.





And this is a water pump that I drilled a hole into the impeller area and inserted a air line, the pump sucks air in and mixes it with the water. I didn't have a extra air pump, and I believe this mixes the air better anyways.

[Evolver]

Dang your like that bunny that keeps on going... and going...

[helomech]

LMAO, got to make the most of my days off. Going to probably be offshore for 21 days starting next week. But when I get back I am going to do my best to finish all of the cinder block work.

Oh yeah, I could not wait, I put 7 tilapia fry in and so far they are doing good.

[helomech]

Some new grow bed pics.

[bacpacker]

Lookin good Helo!

[helomech]

May 31, 16 days ago




This pic was taken 11 days ago. June 4th



June 11th 7 days later.



And today June 15th, 4 days after the last pic.

[Sniper-T]

Those beds are awesome. great use of the cubes, and can be moved with a forklift too!

Tilapia are looking great!

[helomech]

Thanks sniper

[Sniper-T]

One of these days, I'm going to copy/paste this entire thread into a word document, and print it off as a 'how to manual'. Awesome work all around!