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Comment by David Schwinghamer on January 12, 2012 at 4:39pm

I found a cheap but hopefully good 15 min timer at Walmart for 8 bucks, beat that fanny man!

Comment by David Schwinghamer on January 12, 2012 at 4:36pm

http://www.phoenixpermaculture.org/group/aquaponics

Comment by Lynn Engel on January 12, 2012 at 4:15pm

Is it valley permaculture that also has a aquaphonic group ?  Could somebody please post their Link again.  Thanks in advance, Lynn

Comment by Kent Biswanger on January 12, 2012 at 1:44pm

Does anyone have a source for trough liner?

Comment by Kent Biswanger on January 12, 2012 at 12:12pm

If you use gravity to your advantage you could get by with one pump safely. Pump into the raft troughs first then drain into your eb&flow grow beds using a bell syphon to controle eb&flow drain cycle. You may need a T fitting and ball valve to divert some of the water back to your fish tank before entering the ebb&flow grow bed so you can achieve the correct timing on the eb&flow. Hope this helps.

Comment by Sheri Schmeckpeper on January 12, 2012 at 11:59am

We just had a successful breeding. Papa is rebuilding the nest, so they might go at it again. In a couple weeks we should see our new little ones.

Comment by Sheri Schmeckpeper on January 12, 2012 at 8:34am

Yes, you'll need two pumps; I'm not so sure about running the ebb & flow through the rafts. Others can comment on that. If both pumps are running through the same system at the same time, you could have overflow issues.

I'd recommend you build one system at a time. You can have a master design, but you're guaranteed to change things by the time you have one going well.

We use ebb & flow, but float rafts over our tanks and a lot of good stuff grows in them, though slower than in a constant flow system. The floating rafts reduce evaporation and heat loss.

You get used to cleaning fish poo. :)

Comment by Maynhia Stott on January 12, 2012 at 8:16am

Hello every one, thank you for all of you for your input of goldfish vs. liquids.

I'm planning on building a combine system with ebb and flow and raft system? Any one who has done it? The problem I'm thinking about is that the raft system is a constant water flow so do I use two different pump , one that goes thru the ebb and flow before getting to the raft and the other one directly to the raft so that the ebb and flow doesn't have water the raft can still get water.

Now if I do it this way, then I will need to find another method of filtering the water which I'm not looking forward to clean up fish poo. 

Anyone have any suggestion? Thanks so much

Comment by Sheri Schmeckpeper on January 11, 2012 at 10:02pm

Ours were from Petsmart, too. We splurged and paid 27 cent each.

Comment by Sheri Schmeckpeper on January 11, 2012 at 9:03pm

BTW, nice update video, David; and no, I never tried pushing the buttons 1/2 way. Something to try!

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