Aquaponics system. Need people to critique my system

[helomech]

Holy crap thats a lot of work moving all those around. They will come in useful. Good size cooperheads.

Just look big in the pic, they where 2 to 2.5 feet long, but skinny.

[bacpacker]

That just sucks. I helped lay block with my dad when we built his garage. We weren't fast by any means so the number of blocks per day weren't really high, but I was still exhausted at the end of the day.
Still a great score.

[helomech]

Not looking forward to laying that first row of blocks. Man that is going to have to be perfectly level and square. After the first level it should go pretty good.

[bacpacker]

Yep, get the corners all good square and level. The rest of it will be much easier. Dad's garage is a 24x30, we ended up under a 1/4' out of square.

[helomech]

Well took out all the perch and bass, and put in 100 2-3 inch channel catfish. Forgot to take a pic of the fish, was in a big hurry, but did get a pic of my youngest son trying to catch the bass. Also bought 5 lbsl of flat head minnows, put about 200 of them in the tank with the catfish and put the rest in my pond.

[Sniper-T]

I am sore from my eyeballs down. Most of the pallets where rotted out, so I had to unload each block to a new pallet, then he put the pallet on my trailer. Then when I got home my tractor could not lift the pallet, so I had to unload the top 2 rows again to a new pallet. Then unload the rest of the pallet. After that I had to unload most of the pallets again because we where running out of good pallets. I don't even want to know how many times I touched each block.

so far... it'll be a couple more times yet before they're all layed!

[helomech]

Yeah, no joke.

[helomech]

My 3 bank battery charger/converter should be in tomorrow. It will be used to run my pump until I get my solar panels, and also at night once my solar panels are in place. This charger will do everything automatically and will send up to 40 amps to any of the 3 batteries. Did lots of searching to find this, it should do exactly what I need.

Truecharge Battery Charger | Truecharge2 20A, 40A, 60A | Xantrex

[bacpacker]

Those are sweet. Zantrex gets really high reviews in Home Power magazine. Sounds like things are coming along nicely.

[helomech]

Thanks some guy on another site said it does not work as a converter. He said he sells them, I hope he is wrong. This is what it says in the manua though.

Three-Stage Charging
The three-stage charging mode employs the following sequence: Bulk,
Absorption, and Float. During the Bulk stage the batteries are accepting a
constant maximum current. In the Absorption stage, the battery voltage is
held constant and the current declines. A battery will “gas” (produce
hydrogen and oxygen) when its voltage exceeds the “gassing” voltage.
Finally, in the Float stage, the charger continues to provide voltage at a
lower level to maintain the battery in a fully charged state. If there is no
load on the battery, it will typically draw very little current. The charger,
however, is able to provide current to its full rating to power auxiliary DC
loads on the battery.
The charger will restart