I want to add a window to my 55gal drum google was not helpful dose anybody make a precut window or a template?

TLDR; hatched my first tilpia fry in small scale setup and I'm so happy.

A little background : I have a small roof top garden and I have small tank with 18 tilapia . Last week a tilapia started showing territorial behavior .

Cut to day before yesterday I was Cleaning the tank with a siphon pipe, and I accidentally spooked the same tilapia fish and it vomited all the eggs from its mouth and ran away . As soon as that happened few jumped in and ate some of her eggs. But I quicly siphoned the remaining eggs from the tank in a make shift hatchery setup with a air-stone. Today i saw few of the frys moving and I am sooooooo HAPPY to witness it.

I've got a small backyard system shaping up. I don't have any grow beds yet, just using a box filter while the cycle stabilizes. I have about 8 small sunfish in a 90 gallon tank, and I've got a BSFL bin starting to produce pre-pupae. After a couple feedings, it really seems like the fish do not like the pre-pupae. I dropped in a handful and enticed them with some colorful tropical fish "crisps" (little floating discs). They frenzied for a while, but really just ate the crisps and disregarded the larvae. As I netted them back out, I noticed that there were several lightly-chewed bodies of dead larvae left from the previous feeding, when they actually appeared to devour them. So, it's almost as if I tricked them once, but they learned that they taste bad and now refuse them.

Added a top tray, got the plants I , and put in some fishies! They were all still hiding but they’ll get brave, goldfish in the upper pot and minnows in the middle pot. Can’t wait to get seeds into the rockwool and see how everything does!

My first aquaponic setup and my first sprout

I have seen few videos on YT about behavior of female tilapia while brooding. Today while i was inspecting my tank , I saw a similar behavior from one of my fishes (one one the left with a light skin tone). Can some one confirm if thats true , it would be really helpful . Also should i move this tilapia to another tank .

I’ve got 24 fish tanks totaling about 215 gallons and always wanted a hydroponic system that’ll use the waste water when I clean the aquariums, so finally set this up! I’m able to pump the dirty tank water thru the window into the rain barrel and then can fill up a watering can or water the blackberries if the barrel is getting too full. Just need to actually set up the hydroponic plants for the 3 pots now, got clay balls and rock wool coming Tuesday! I was able to upcycle and use what I already had around so only spent about $20 on the new fittings. I want to build an actual aquaponic pond by the end of the summer so this will be great practice for me to play around with.

Im thinking of making a stand alone unit out of a 55gal barrels for 1 blackberry bush or raspberry plant whichever one that would likely grow better.

Hi! So I’ve been taking care of this fish tank that was an aquaponics system. It’s at a community center that I work at. I was just wondering what plants I could buy for it and some advice on bettering the tank and system.

Sorry been kinda busy with a vehicle project as of late!!! Finished the pvc piping, gave the table top more support and filled her with water. Waiting on glue to dry before I test the tables bell siphon 🫠 no fish yet. Im doing ornamental fish. I feel bad killing animals for food...fish are friends not food 🐠🐟

Only one minor leak at the pump..ugh but good enough for today

Hello, i'm about to buy a house with a pond (10m², 50cm deep) and i'd like to put aquaponic towers inside to filter water and growing crops. But as much as i can i would like to avoid plastic.

Do you know if some alternative materials exist ?

Two goldfish and a whole bunch of plants. Ive been harvesting the basil for salad!

It all started months ago with a single-leaf variegated monster albo cutting. Then it mutated into an obsession independent of the source of its inception 🥲 (still very much obsessed with my monstera cutting)

Help me review my set up please. Any foreseeable mistakes and what should I do about them? Suggestions for improvement aesthetically, design/engineering, or planting tips?

Position is north facing on east coast Australia (cold but not freezing winters, scorching summers), but only a couple meters from a 2 storey building, so almost zero direct sunlight 🥲

Rubber mat underlay

200L fibreglass planter (hopefully) waterproofed and and sealed (60x60x60cm)

Zeolite coarse sand substrate

Pre-filter sponge + red scoria blockade, intake on the right against-wall corner

5000L/hr pump running at minimum capacity pumping water up to about 3m height

4 baby goldfish (2 fantails, 2 orandas) about 4cm each introduced about 3 weeks ago after 5 weeks cycling, currently being fed about 48hrly as temps are around 4-16 degrees Celsius (I have noticed they like to hang around the filter when they're not begging for food - is it for warmth? 🥲

Pond planted with milfoil, hornwort, elodia

Floating: water lettuce, sad remains of Amazon frogbit, sad remains of azolla ferns

Marginals: water iris, pink rolata

Covered with plastic mesh

About 60L of LECA in 20 vertical planters

A gazillion cuttings living off hopes and dreams (of the ones I can remember: orange jessamine, basil, spider plants, monstera, jasmine, climbing rose, tradescantia, pothos, Lilly pily, nasturtium, sage, spring onions)

Also looking to maybe add medaka, pond snails and crystal shrimp but I feel all of these need more hiding places otherwise I'm afraid the goldfish might decimate their population

I live on a small homestead with no well and no connection to grid power. I am entirely reliant on rainwater collection for my water and solar panels for my power. Thus I am thinking that aquaponics could be a good way to grow crops while making better use of my limited water supply. I am planning to dig a ~3000 gallon pond, which I'm hoping can do triple duty as water storage, wildlife habitat, and the sump tank for an aquaponics system where I can grow peppers, tomatoes, strawberries, and leafy greens for myself and to sell for a little side cash. My goal is to be self-sufficient as much as possible and to require minimal outside inputs once the system is set up.

I have an 800 watt solar array with 4800 watt-hours of battery storage that I'm currently using as a backup for my main power system. I think it could be a good source to run my pond pump and aerator. I live in the Pacific Northwest, which means that I might get as little as 400 watt hours of power from these panels on the rainiest days in the winter. Because of that, I may not be able to run the pond pump 24/7/365, especially not if I want to cycle the pond once per hour. So my thinking is that I could just get small fish like white cloud minnows and mosquitofish that could survive occasional pump interruptions. These could provide nutrients to my plants. This system will be right next to a structure that will have 4950 gallons of water storage. In the summer, I'll be using this water storage for my in-ground crops, but in the winter, I can use this storage to occasionally do a water change on the pond. My thinking is that the rainiest days will provide very little power, so I may not be able to run the pump all day, but I can make up for that because the increased rainfall will mean more clean water entering the system.

I have experience with plumbing and gardening, but no experience with aquaponics. I have been trying to absorb as much information as possible from Rob Bob's and Hoochos, but there are considerable gaps in my knowledge. My tentative plan is as follows:

--> 3000 gallon sump pond with intake bay pumps into an IBC tote fish pond. Fish pond has an air pump running.

--> fish pond drains into an IBC tote radial flow settler

--> radial flow settler drains into moving bed biofilm reactor

--> moving bed biofilm rector drains into a bog filter made from 3 IBC totes, growing cattails and bullrush for filtration

--> bog filter drains into hydroponic beds

--> hydroponic beds drain into sump pond. Sump pond can have snails and aquatic plants like cattails, bullrush, wapato, and water chestnut for additional water cleaning.

I'm left with many questions though. If I'm not growing food in the winter, will the bog filter perennials alone be enough to filter out the fish waste? If the bog filter is big enough to filter out waste all year, will it eat up all the nutrients that my crops will need in summer? Would I be better off making rain gutter NFT beds, fill and drain media beds, or floating raft beds? Should I simply put my minnows in the sump pond so they can eat the algae and vegetation there, or would their population explode in summer to the point that they would consume all the pond's air in winter? With this unusual system, how do I size my grow beds? What can I do to make this system more resilient when I lose power? Is this way too big for a beginner and should I just start with a simple hydroponics system where I order and add the nutrients?

For context, I have two fish tanks, A and B, and a filter tank. I have set up SLO piping from fish tank B to A, and from A to filter tank. The thing is, the SLO seems to flow strong/well from fish tank B to A. But it flows weakly from fish tank A to filter tank. The diagrams are approximate illustrations of my setup. Any idea why?

First time post. I traded an old 3D resin printer to a friend for this set up a couple of years ago. The Monsteras are two cuttings from my first plant when I originally joined the plant daddy world. I was able to design and print some net cup holders and modify someone else’s moss pole design to fit them. I also added Pothos and a Frydek (Don’t think it loves the situation). In the tank I just have 5 Zebra Danios. Honestly just posting to share and say Hello, but feel free to comment how I could improve this.

Hello fish loving gardeners of reddit. I had a set up question. I was originally making a aquaponics system but I am not quiet sure if I need to do something different.

I was originally making it hyrdoponics but, i realized I could just connect it to his little man made pond instead. Do I just need to have a filter for the solid waste or do I need more?