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Comment by Kim Romen on April 4, 2014 at 12:38am

Robert, I'll say a prayer for you!

Comment by Randy Mann on April 3, 2014 at 10:30pm

I am sure none of you have ever done this with your system....you get this idea in your head and you know it is not the best way to go.... but you know if you do not carry it out it will gnaw at you until you do it anyway so it is best just to get it over with so the next gnawing idea can come.  Here is the result of the 1st gnawing idea...the 5 gallon swirl filter.

Comment by Jim Troyer on April 3, 2014 at 12:23am

Hi George

Yes, I have fish, they are 7-8" long, no babies at this time, sorry.  let me know if you want some of these bigger fish.  480.257.5214

@ Matt:  It's the home despot bucket right?! huh!  <chuckling>

That's a male tilapia BTW you can tell by the pointy fin like a '57 Chebbie, gals are '56 Chebbie like

@ the group:

Please add Bob (Robert) Rowe in to your prayers.  Bob is upgrading himself to partial android status with a pair of high tech knees this week. 

God Bless Bob!

Comment by Matt Miskinnis on April 2, 2014 at 12:27pm

Jim is becoming quite the artist 

Comment by Randy Mann on April 2, 2014 at 12:02pm

Thank you as well Matt!

Comment by Randy Mann on April 2, 2014 at 11:46am

Man that is fantastic Jim!!! Thank you very much. I appreciate all your help.

Comment by George Taimanao on April 2, 2014 at 7:47am

Hey Jim, do you have any tilapia for sale? I would like to get some by this weekend. Thanks!

Comment by Jim Troyer on April 2, 2014 at 4:36am

@ Randy:  I just noticed that I labeled the radial filter as a swirl filter in the image below, my bad, sorry for any confusion I may have caused.  Here is an updated image:

Comment by Matt Miskinnis on April 1, 2014 at 10:30pm

@Randy,  mine is similar to what Jim shows but my sump tank pumps into my Fish Tank, then my fish tank has a radial filter between the the Fish Tank and the grow beds, then the grow beds dump back to the sump.  Either way you are capturing the big solids before getting into your grow beds.

Comment by Jim Troyer on April 1, 2014 at 6:28pm

Hi Randy, sorry about that 

You would put the radial filter between the sump and the fish tank in your system.  You will want to engineer a solids lifting drain in the FT to get the solids off the bottom and into the filter.  A solids lifting drain tube is nothing more than a tube that has a water inlet near the bottom of tank and exits at or near the top creating a constant water level.

For others that may be reading this: filters should be upstream of the raft or media beds to either keep the media from clogging or the roots from gathering particulates.

I hope that is clearer Randy...

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