All Videos Tagged flood (Aquaponic Gardening) - Aquaponic Gardening

BellSiphonsDraining

2015-04-22T19:17:11.989Z

Bell siphons are simply a length of PVC for the outlet, and a V8 Fusion jug with the bottom cut out with 3 flanges plus additional holes punched about 1/2" up from the bottom. The pea gravel holds it in place. If I want the levels of the water to be higher, I can remove and replace the PVC through the jug opening, or pull the gravel back, etc.

AquaponicSetUp

2015-04-22T19:16:56.869Z

Finally realizing the resemblence of a garden this year! During the first year, due to a productive pair of Blue Tilapia, I needed to convert some of the beds into holding tanks for some of the fingerlings (too small to put with the bigger fish). A friend wanted to see how I had my swirl filter and bell siphons set up, so this video and the one on the sipons alone are the result of that.

Summer 2011 (3 months running)

2011-12-08T02:15:24.183Z

A home-based aquaponics system tour.

Rain and flooding in Karachi, 13 Sept

2011-09-13T18:12:37.617Z

Some satellite imagery along with pictures and video from around my house during the tropical thunderstorms that happened Sept. 13th 2011. There was about this much water when it rained on the 10th as well.

I made the video around 5 p.m. and the water had been at an impassable level since 9 a.m. Its a little reduced now at 11 p.m. but still more than a foot of water, and that's just in my lane, it gets a good bit deeper in other lanes. Other parts of the city are completely inundated, I'm lucky that we had our house built on a higher plinth and have taken steps to ensure that the water can't get in, or at least as trouble getting in.

Credit where credit is due though, I had electricity through all of it, which was astounding, and on one level worrying, as with this level of flooding PMTs were bound to trip and feeder stations short out and so on, which did happen in numerous parts of the city, so someone should really have turned off the electricity.

Anyhow, leave a comment, rate and subscribe if you liked the video, thanks for watching :D

Homemade Aquaponics and container garden update 10 Sept (Flooded due to rain!)

2011-09-11T18:03:32.683Z

An update on the AP and the container garden, tragedy struck it a few days ago, due to rain the pump had to be turned off overnight, the morning saw all the goldies floating dead.

Another spell of rain today flooded the housing colony, had to spend quite a bit of time clearing the gutters of the dead leaves and all so water could drain off the roof and into the sewers, also had to empty many of the containers which were full of water.

More rain is forecast for the next few days, will try to get video of it. Really should have had the camera with me when I tried to get out earlier in the days and had to stop, abandon my car and walk back, lets see if I can make it happen over the next couple of days.

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