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My pilot project Francois

I started messing around with tilapia 2006-2010

2010 - the end of july i had to take my system down

i am currently trying to get a piece of property to set up a scaled system.

basickly i dont have a system that is running

but i want to share my last 4 years with aquaponics

with members.......

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Permalink Reply by TCLynx on April 11, 2011 at 3:51pm

I do like the brick, will be watching to see how the lower bunk trays work out.

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Permalink Reply by Francois Lemmer on April 13, 2011 at 9:33am

Started plastering yesterday...I went to thin on the plaster
Learnt a few things
I think I will paint this with white cement....rough finish

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Permalink Reply by Francois Lemmer on April 13, 2011 at 9:36am

Hi All
I finished off plastering the one outside wall today.
Learned from yesterday and getting better at this.
Yesterday I had to make a business decision and I will have to leave for Pretoria on next Tuesday...
Will be working there for 20 days…
I want to do most of the building work before I go.
This puts me back as far as my system is concerned……

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Permalink Reply by Harold Sukhbir on April 13, 2011 at 11:54am

Hi Francois,

Hurry back!

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Permalink Reply by TCLynx on April 13, 2011 at 6:02pm

Might not be a bad thing to let the plaster and mortar cure for a while in any case

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Permalink Reply by Francois Lemmer on April 14, 2011 at 10:20am

Today I spent the whole day plastering the outside of the other wall and then bagging the insides of the two walls. Back breaking work but now it is done.

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Permalink Reply by Francois Lemmer on April 15, 2011 at 8:45am

I started plastering and finishing of the tops of walls today.
Looks ok even a little overhang.
This building of my system from foundations to finish has taught me a few things…..and a sore back and hands
But almost there….tops and ends to finish.
The ends I will do after I have had my two bottom trays in place to see what will work the best.
I don’t want to build totally closed for access and maintenance.

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Permalink Reply by Francois Lemmer on April 17, 2011 at 6:17am

This morning I tried my two bottom duckweed trays.

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Permalink Reply by Francois Lemmer on April 17, 2011 at 6:21am

Had to rework the brickwork on one side and make longer by 100 mm for tray to fit with some clearance for pipe fittings.
I rebuild this broken end and tomorrow I can finish of both my ends….happy with the way things worked out. When the two trays are in place it looks good.