All Discussions Tagged 'PVC' - Aquaponic Gardening2024-03-29T11:34:59Zhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=PVC&feed=yes&xn_auth=noOrbit PVC Lock- No glue PVC fittingstag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2015-05-11:4778851:Topic:6054352015-05-11T20:03:03.757ZMitch Stegallhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/MitchStegall
<p>I saw these at Home Depot. Looks like a quick and easy way to push connect pvc without the gluing, and can be rotated! I thought some aquapons might be interested in this.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.orbitonline.com/products/sprinkler-systems/push-fittings-pipe/pvc-lock">https://www.orbitonline.com/products/sprinkler-systems/push-fittings-pipe/pvc-lock</a> </p>
<p><a href="https://www.orbitonline.com/products/sprinkler-systems/push-fittings-pipe/pvc-lock" target="_blank">PVC Lock</a></p>
<p>I saw these at Home Depot. Looks like a quick and easy way to push connect pvc without the gluing, and can be rotated! I thought some aquapons might be interested in this.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.orbitonline.com/products/sprinkler-systems/push-fittings-pipe/pvc-lock">https://www.orbitonline.com/products/sprinkler-systems/push-fittings-pipe/pvc-lock</a> </p>
<p><a href="https://www.orbitonline.com/products/sprinkler-systems/push-fittings-pipe/pvc-lock" target="_blank">PVC Lock</a></p> BPA and Use of PVC in Aquaponic Systemstag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2014-01-05:4778851:Topic:5396642014-01-05T23:40:48.344ZMark Andrewshttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/MarkAndrews
<p>I am new to aquaponics and in the very early stages of my education. In many of the videos I have viewed and in reading on plumbing for systems, it appears that the use of PVC is fairly common. Does anyone have knowledge / information on BPA leaching from the PVC into aquaponic systems and ultimately into the produce and fish? </p>
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<p>I have found some information at the following link to Healthstuff.org in their 2012 Garden Products Study: …</p>
<p>I am new to aquaponics and in the very early stages of my education. In many of the videos I have viewed and in reading on plumbing for systems, it appears that the use of PVC is fairly common. Does anyone have knowledge / information on BPA leaching from the PVC into aquaponic systems and ultimately into the produce and fish? </p>
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<p>I have found some information at the following link to Healthstuff.org in their 2012 Garden Products Study: <a href="http://www.healthystuff.org/findings.050312.garden.php">http://www.healthystuff.org/findings.050312.garden.php</a>, retrieved 1/4/2014.</p>
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<p>Thanks in advance for your reply.</p> My Huge PVC Hoophouse Build (Lots of pics chronological 1 month)tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2013-06-13:4778851:Topic:4851702013-06-13T08:24:43.729ZJason Finnhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/JasonFinn
<p>Now that classes are done for the semester I have put most of my time toward my greenhouse and aquaponics set-up. I am posting some photos for comments and discussions for anyone interested. There are quite a few and they are in chronological order from my supplies being delivered to the area I chose to develop. <strong>All questions and any advice for me is more than welcomed!</strong></p>
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<p>If you do Instagram then follow me at <strong>dropthepress</strong> and let me know below…</p>
<p>Now that classes are done for the semester I have put most of my time toward my greenhouse and aquaponics set-up. I am posting some photos for comments and discussions for anyone interested. There are quite a few and they are in chronological order from my supplies being delivered to the area I chose to develop. <strong>All questions and any advice for me is more than welcomed!</strong></p>
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<p>If you do Instagram then follow me at <strong>dropthepress</strong> and let me know below so I can follow back.</p>
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<p>Here is the supply delivery:</p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656375125?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656375125?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></p>
<p>I got retaining wall bricks, cinder blocks and stepping stone tiles and it will be obvious how each was used:</p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656377531?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656377531?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></p>
<p>I consider this PHASE 1:</p>
<p>Here's a pic of the spot we are building on with my little brother taking a breather (we leveled the entire place with shovels and wheelbarrows or wagons):</p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656380734?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656380734?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></p>
<p>Here is the same spot and time from the opposite angle:</p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656383841?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656383841?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></p>
<p>This is PHASE 2:</p>
<p>The retaining wall can be seen in the next pic and we are 80% done leveling or so:</p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656386237?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656386237?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></p>
<p>Other angle (bad pic):</p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656388540?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656388540?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></p>
<p>PHASE 3:</p>
<p>Here is my Mother and my dog Cooper.</p>
<p>We started on the cinder block perimeter and brought down sand to level the tiles eventually:</p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656389997?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656389997?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></p>
<p>Other angle:</p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656390984?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656390984?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></p>
<p>PHASE 4:</p>
<p>Finally got all the lower cinder blocks in:</p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656393266?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656393266?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></p>
<p>Other angle:</p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656397545?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656397545?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a>PHASE 5:</p>
<p>Here's my brother again. The wall is laid out to its finished height (no mortar, will have cement in some of the holes in the cinder blocks) and the rebar for the PVC hoophouse is hammered in (about 1 foot or more deep each bar is almost 7 feet long). My little brother is 6' 2" so it might not look like it but each bar is nearly 6 feet tall after they were set into the ground:</p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656402203?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656402203?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></p>
<p>At this point we perfected the path that comes down to the greenhouse.</p>
<p>I used 3/4 inch PVC pipe at 20 foot lengths (they are bell shaped on one side which is the side I put to the ground). I connected 2 of the 20 foot PVC pipes together with cross joints and then we set each one onto the rebar on opposite ends. <strong>A video I found on youtube said not to use the cross joints because they crack but I think it is because that person used glue which we did not!</strong></p>
<p>You can see my friend Curtis in the background who was nice enough to help during three of these phases:</p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656404028?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656404028?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></p>
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<p>Phase 6:</p>
<p>We finished most of the PVC structure. There is Curtis again. The apex of the hoops are 13.5 feet tall:</p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656405535?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656405535?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></p>
<p>Phase 7:</p>
<p>The spine of the hoophouse is now put up, the tiles are in place and the growbeds are roughly placed. We put cement into each cinder block where a PVC pipe was in but the rest were filled with dirt and topped off with cement because it is only a 3 block high wall anyways (cutting corners!!).</p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656407521?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656407521?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></p>
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<p>This pic is from before the build when we got our IBCs:</p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656407902?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656407902?profile=original" width="640"/></a></p>
<p>Here's my Mother again. This is a pic of our cistern to catch rainwater (no tap water with chlorine and fluoride for us!). We had this installed before the greenhouse so we can fill our system with rainwater.</p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656411044?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2656411044?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a>This is where we are so far and I will be posting further "phases" soon!</p>
<p></p> Thrifty Bare-Bones Home Systemtag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-11-06:4778851:Topic:4141952012-11-06T22:38:23.876ZAmanda Plantehttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/AmandaPlante
<p><span>Hello All,</span></p>
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<p>For the past year I've been thrilled to work on a building and maintaining a medium-sized aquaponic system at a local high school as a part of my job. We're looking to expand to teacher training to include gardening in their curriculum, and not every school has access to an aquaponic system. Instead of excluding aquaponics from our workshops, I challenged myself to build a bare-bones home system.</p>
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<p><span>My bare-bones home…</span></p>
<p><span>Hello All,</span></p>
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<p>For the past year I've been thrilled to work on a building and maintaining a medium-sized aquaponic system at a local high school as a part of my job. We're looking to expand to teacher training to include gardening in their curriculum, and not every school has access to an aquaponic system. Instead of excluding aquaponics from our workshops, I challenged myself to build a bare-bones home system.</p>
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<p><span>My bare-bones home aquaponic system -- designed to cost about $75. Materials were:</span><br/><span>- 10 gal aquarium</span><br/><span>- 5-15 gal air pump</span><br/><span>- a handful of feeder goldfish</span><br/><span>- 2 foot section of 4 inch PVC and endcaps</span><br/><span>- 30-45 gal/hr fountain pump</span><br/><br/><span>I figured it would be less expensive to cycle with martyr fish that are doomed to die of ammonium toxicity than pay for a cycling starter.</span></p>
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<p>I expected to have some trouble clogging up the pump, but with the intake covered in gravel and weekly rinsing, I haven't had any problems.</p>
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<p>I also expected to have problems from a lack of light, but the plants seem green and happy and aren't stretching.</p>
<p><br/><span>The system's been running relatively flawlessly for 3 weeks now.</span></p>
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<p><span>I'm open to any tips and suggestions to improve before we start including this in workshops.</span></p>
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<p><span>Click <strong><span class="font-size-5"><a href="http://community.theaquaponicsource.com/photo/albums/bare-bones-home-aquaponic-system" target="_self">HERE</a></span></strong> for more pictures.</span></p>
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<p><span>Thanks for your help, Amanda</span></p> Help with the sizing of my systemtag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-06-30:4778851:Topic:3568942012-06-30T06:43:38.103ZBrandon nardoiannihttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/Brandonnardoianni
<p>Hello all i hope someone might be able to help me with a problem I'm having figuring out the plumbing sizes of my system. It is going to be a CHIFT PIST system with a pump in the sump tank. The tank size will be two IBC's that are 275 gallons that are connected by 2 - 6" pieces of PVC each that will feed the 5 grow beds (Top half of an IBC 14"x48""40) through a Solids Overflow (SLO) and then the grow beds will drain through bell siphons into the sump tanks (Bottom halves of the IBC Tanks…</p>
<p>Hello all i hope someone might be able to help me with a problem I'm having figuring out the plumbing sizes of my system. It is going to be a CHIFT PIST system with a pump in the sump tank. The tank size will be two IBC's that are 275 gallons that are connected by 2 - 6" pieces of PVC each that will feed the 5 grow beds (Top half of an IBC 14"x48""40) through a Solids Overflow (SLO) and then the grow beds will drain through bell siphons into the sump tanks (Bottom halves of the IBC Tanks all tied together by a manifold type system of pipes to connect all of the sump tanks ("34X48"X40") and will pump back to the fish tank through a pump in the sump tank closest to the fish tanks.</p>
<p>Here is my dilemma. I cant figure out what sizes should be used for the different sections of my system.</p>
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<p>1. Size of the pipe for the SLO drain</p>
<p>2. Size of the pipe From the SLO drain to the grow bed manifold system</p>
<p>3. I am pretty sure that the bell siphons should be 2" for the sheild and "1 for the drain pipe 5/8" snorkel</p>
<p>4. Size of PVC To connect sump tanks.</p>
<p>4. Size of pump in sump tank to get water back to fish tanks to cause water to flow into SLO drain to feed grow beds(GPH?)</p>
<p>5. Size of pvc from pump back to 275 Gallon tanks.</p>
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<p>The setup is about 2 feet taller than the grow beds and the sump is directly under the grow beds. Elevation difference from the bottom of the sump to top of Fish tanks is about 5 feet.</p>
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<p>Plus how to correctly get the system on a constant schedule of flood and drain.</p>
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<p>Any help would be greatly appreciated as I have everything else done setting the tanks and grow beds up, but this is really stumping me and slowing progress. I have invested alot of money building the greenhouse that is going to house it!</p>
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<p>If you have google SketchUp this is the system I based mine off of exvept I did not include the bio filters. The attatched adobe file has the system described in detail and is a really good read if you have the time. </p>
<p><a href="http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=b0696fb006e3a3b092ca1fd01c89b902&prevstart=0" target="_blank">CHIFT PIST</a></p> Plumbingtag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2010-02-28:4778851:Topic:8712010-02-28T21:52:52.000ZDavid S.https://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/DavidS
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I am in the process of designing my first aquapoincs system. Right now the plan is to have a constant height in the fish tank, pump in the sump, media based system. The fish tank is a 300 gallon cube (what are those called?), and the two grow beds will be made of wood with an EPDM liner.</p>
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<p>I am planning on flooding the grow beds by using a larger pump on a timer (Laguna Maxflo 4200 - I got it for free, so I am going to try it. Max flow rate is 70 gpm, but it is…</p>
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I am in the process of designing my first aquapoincs system. Right now the plan is to have a constant height in the fish tank, pump in the sump, media based system. The fish tank is a 300 gallon cube (what are those called?), and the two grow beds will be made of wood with an EPDM liner.</p>
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<p>I am planning on flooding the grow beds by using a larger pump on a timer (Laguna Maxflo 4200 - I got it for free, so I am going to try it. Max flow rate is 70 gpm, but it is only a 160 watt pump), and having a restricted drain. What is the best way to build a restricted drain?</p>
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<p>I was planning on putting a 4" PVC pipe with lots of holes in it to keep the media away from the 2" PVC drain, which will have only a few holes in it.</p>
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<p>Also, is there a certain type of PVC glue I should be shopping for? Is UV resistant PVC resistant enough to leave exposed to sunlight, or should I cover it with something?</p>
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<p>Lastly, are bulkhead fittings the recomended fittings to form a water tight seal on the cube and against the EPDM?</p>
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<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>David</p>
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