Dumme's Aquaponic Adventure

[Dumme]

aq·ua·pon·ics
ˌäkwəˈpäniks,ˌak-/
noun
a system of aquaculture in which the waste produced by farmed fish or other aquatic animals supplies nutrients for plants grown generally hydroponically, which in turn purify the water.

Hello, I'm the Aquaponic Dumme. I signed up on this site a while back, but haven't posted much. Here's my garden..

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Flower room 1

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6 × Cree 3590's

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Seedling and clone area in tank room.

 

[Dumme]

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Here a picture of my tank. It's very hard to get good photos of my fish. They're those orange blurs in the picture above.

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More aqua-aero-soil hybrid prototype progression..

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Under construction...

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Clone, seedling, filter, and fish tank room...

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Clone, seedling, filter, and fish tank room...

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Aero chamber and roots..

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Flowers in room 1...

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What I used in my custom aqua-aero-soil smartpots, for the bottoms. Roots grow right threw it, but not soil.

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Here's my bio-filter in action.

 

[Dumme]

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Picture of an unused cus to smartpot for duel root zones.
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Yes, I sew them myself..

 

[sopappy]

I'm confused again, I was expecting to see fish.

update: not sure how I missed those big orange things swimming in the water up there but I did.
I may not grow much of it but it's pretty good.

 

[Dumme]

It's hard to make the fish sit still for the family photos, lol.

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Train Wreck seedling sprouting

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My new garden has 4×8×4 tank, and it's 60°f water, so the Shubunkins only come up occasionally. The Trout hide anytime I get close to the tank.
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Here's a couple pictures of my Shubunkins when they were younger and in a smaller 150gal tank. If you wanna see my Trout, you'll have to check out some of my videos on youtube.

 

[WeedHopper]

Lost i am.

 

[Dumme]

[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Ak6C0RXQU[/ame]

 

[Dumme]

I use one large fish tank and pump the water to all the other rooms and filters using a 5100GPH pump. It's a beast.
I use two large filters, one is a bio-filter, the other is a swirl filter; both made DIY from 1000 liter IBC totes.
I also split the flow so it travels to the filters and the rooms seen in the pictures above.

My aero chambers are made from 24 inch road culvert, and are 10 feet long, with 5 plants in each row.

 

[WeedHopper]

Cool. Never seen one till now.

 

[Locked]

Awesome stuff brosef. Thank you for sharing. I posted a video on this not to long ago.

 

[Dan789]

Aqua Dumme, never seen he soil/hydroponic mix like you've got going on. Well done, plus I'm guessing at some point the fish get fried? :fly:

 

[sopappy]

I use one large fish tank and pump the water to all the other rooms and filters using a 5100GPH pump. It's a beast.
I use two large filters, one is a bio-filter, the other is a swirl filter; both made DIY from 1000 liter IBC totes.
I also split the flow so it travels to the filters and the rooms seen in the pictures above.

My aero chambers are made from 24 inch road culvert, and are 10 feet long, with 5 plants in each row.

fascinating. the culvert part looks almost aeroponic but those aren't misters, they look like sprinkler heads
and I was imagining fish swimming amongnst the roots harhar
so you don't have to feed anybody? just maintain the water in the uh, rez, uh aquarium?

oops, youtube link up there has answers, wait, what? soil?

 

[sopappy]

I don't think you can get much more organic than this:
[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT9aPMKR1xk[/ame]

 

[Dumme]

I don't think you can get much more organic than this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT9aPMKR1xk

Yes, I use praying mantis for bug control :smoke1:

I use low pressure Aeroponics as the waste from Aquaponics doesn't allow me to use any smaller of a sprayers. Sprinklers it is..

 

[Dumme]

Aqua Dumme, never seen he soil/hydroponic mix like you've got going on. Well done, plus I'm guessing at some point the fish get fried? :fly:

Yes, on the Trout, No on the Shubunkins

 

[OkieHomie]

Very awesome man!! I've done one small veggie garden with aquaponics and it was a lot of fun but didnt really produce much, just getting my hands in it and trying it out. Would love to do something of this scale and actually with MJ. :clap:
:48:And welcome to the forum. you should start a journal for this!

 

[Dumme]

Very awesome man!! I've done one small veggie garden with aquaponics and it was a lot of fun but didnt really produce much, just getting my hands in it and trying it out. Would love to do something of this scale and actually with MJ. :clap:
:48:And welcome to the forum. you should start a journal for this!

Im too unorganized in my documentation to start a journal. I like just posting the important stuff, and letting people pick and choose the things that they like.

 

[Moo]

Woah paying mantis.... That's a cool idea. .... wish I'dve thought of it....

 

[Dumme]

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I had 10 eggs, and approximately 2000 mantis roaming my house

 

[Moo]

Nice man, thanks for that.

Wish there were paying mantids too though,