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Comment by Jeff S on September 23, 2014 at 8:33pm

I'm adding grow beds to my IBC system. Will the new beds cycle better with just running the fish water through them or would supplementing the media from a cycled bed work better?

Comment by Derrick Kerr on September 21, 2014 at 9:01pm

If anyone here is in Maryland, I just created a group Maryland Aquaponics for open discussion about the difficulties specific to our area. Please join me and lets talk aquaponics.

Comment by DJ Wambach on July 6, 2014 at 3:44pm

Thanks Jim, I like the freezer idea I was thinking of just using one to cool a coil of black pipe. Sort of the flip side of a sun heater but I like the added fish tank .

Comment by Jim Fisk on July 1, 2014 at 8:30am

Another thing that might help is an old chest freezer used as a FT and replace the t-stat with a room temp t-stat. I have that in my original plan but have not found a suitable freezer other than the 2 we use for our farm animals, etc. The wife won't let me have one of those bu I am on the lookout. Just be careful to avoid hitting the coils if you drill for pipes. One way of doing that is to turn it on open and the frost will show you the plumbing pretty quick.

Comment by Jim Fisk on July 1, 2014 at 8:25am

Some form of evaporative cooling at night might help. Also search the same on here. Rob has done some good work on that. I heard years ago that you can form ice on a clear night in the desert via evap cooling by insulating during the day and exposing the water at night. You are certainly fighting a hard battle.

Here I just let my artesian well overflow the sump when the sys temp hits 72F or higher. That also saturates the ground around the 275g sump which helps as well. I also keep 4 one gal juice bottles full and frozen in the deep freeze in case we hit a hot spell but here in the mountains I have only had to use them a couple of times. I place one in each of the 2 trout tanks and of course they float and bath the fish in cool water. 109F is tough. Run for the mountains and don't look back

Comment by DJ Wambach on July 1, 2014 at 7:44am

Temp hit 109*F here in Southern UT and my water temp was about 90*F in my IBC tank. I just put foam all the way around it and a lid. the sump is in the ground. Any ideas on keeping this cool?

Comment by DJ Wambach on June 30, 2014 at 8:14am

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I put 2 inch foam around the fish tank this weekend to help keep the temp down.

Comment by Steve Armeros on June 17, 2014 at 2:14pm

Thank you to all who have helped on the algae problem.  It's great that we all help each other.

Stev

Comment by Jeff S on June 17, 2014 at 1:51pm

I had a similar problem when I first started. The sides of the tank were dark from the algae. I bought an algae eating fish and he seemed to take care of the problem. I have a lot of Tilapia now in the tank and they immediately clean up any algae that occurs. I haven't coated or covered the IBC and don't have algae now but in the winter I will be insulating all my IBCs.

Comment by Jim Fisk on June 17, 2014 at 12:16pm

Keep in mind I am running fresh sump water only with no fish waste as the sump is after the media grow beds. Fish waste solids could make quite a mess in there as it will trap everything.

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