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Can anyone help to lower the water pump wattage ?

I am newbie in aquaponic. I just started 3 months ago. I love to see the plants are growing good.

But what I didn't expect is the electricity cost that come from the water pump.

I use 1 water pump that is rated 320 Watt 7000l/h. And I average for 1 month .... the electricity cost is so high. Much more higher than the price of the vegetables that we plant.

Can anyone help me how to lower the wattage ? or should I buy new pumps with lower watt ?

If I want to get a Solar Sun Powered water pump how much will it cost ? will it better choice to run on Solar System ? How many Battery that we must have ? How big is the solar panel ?

surely there are too many question.

hopefully that anyone in forum can help.

thanks

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Permalink Reply by Squall Leonheart on August 23, 2012 at 6:31pm

Thank you Jonathan Kadish.

I probably have mistaken to choose gutters as my house media. I thougt that it would be cheap and works normaly. Next time when I build or upgrade I will make sure that my media house is quite deep.

About the Egg Shells , I will try it in this weekend.

thanks a lot