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For my second installment of How it all Started, I will take a little step back and show off gravel washing and getting the grow beds up online. The previous blog post left off with a picture of the system basically up and running with a fish tank, 4 grow beds and a shade structure. . . . → Read More: How it all Started, Finish Initial Build and get fish. This is to be the first in a series of posts about the early stages and progression of My Big Aquaponics System. This system has grown/changed much over the years and my mistakes with it have taught me so much. Barrel Ponics System I discovered Aquaponics back in late 2007, I had heard . . . → Read More: TCLynx’s Big Aquaponics System how it all started Want to sequence the flow of water into your grow beds to only flood one at a time? Want to avoid extra wiring and control electronics? Then consider an aquaponics indexing valve. All that is needed to operate this valve is a flow of water that starts and stops. If you are already . . . → Read More: Indexing Valves So Friday Afternoon I went down and picked up the new liner for the bed. Yesterday, I spent the day installing that new liner. First I drained the existing liner (involved setting all the grow beds to constant flood to hold the extra water so I didn’t waste it all. I also filled up some . . . → Read More: adding a raft bed In some places I’m known for my patience in re-explaining many of the basic info needed for stable home aquaponics system design. Things like the three major functions of media filled flood and drain grow beds (actually there are more than three functions.) 1-Media filled flood and drain grow beds provide Bio-filtration 2-Media filled flood . . . → Read More: Basic Media Bed Aquaponic Design |
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