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Post by Major_A on Apr 18, 2009 7:38:52 GMT -5
yup, that's what I'm after. Actually the motor run off the windmill was what I was going for at first. Then I saw some of those options and the way my filter works is it's a 35gal plastic drum with a stand pipe in it, when it fills it just goes down the stand pipe back into the pond. The filter media is snow fence, chunks of pvc pipe, plastic ribbon banding material. If I ever need to add charcoal for some reason, I just dump some into some panty hose tie it off and toss it in. just thought their might be more than one way to do it. the only issue I can really think of is clogging. edit - somehow I ran across this. Looks usefull. www.geocities.com/shawnkayak/pvcpump/ |
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Post by Death's Shadow on Apr 18, 2009 14:52:54 GMT -5
should work. just extend the inlet a bit and put a screen over it. Easy enough to brush off.
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Post by Major_A on Jun 16, 2009 23:21:22 GMT -5
Still need some more items for the wind powered water mover project, but I've added a test aquaponics addon for the new pond filter I made. Still need to lift the water, but don't need pressure to run it through the system. updated garden photos, 2009 and years past homeandhobbyhelpfulls.synthasite.com/my-garden-photos.php |
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Post by Major_A on Aug 2, 2009 13:48:36 GMT -5
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Post by Death's Shadow on Aug 3, 2009 9:04:10 GMT -5
Very cool.. do you add fertilizer or anything too the water. What nutrients do the plants get?
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Post by Major_A on Aug 3, 2009 22:07:42 GMT -5
The nutrients in the water are natural, they are getting it all from the duckie water garden.
Hydroponics= add chemical nutrients
Aquaponics= nutrients from aquatic life/natural
not sure how to post my you tube playlist, but if you youtube search for aquaponics, it's the same way a mechanical filter works, your just makeing it huge. the nitrogen cycle.
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Post by Death's Shadow on Aug 4, 2009 11:06:33 GMT -5
I understand how it works just did not know what you were using for plant nutrients, artificial or natural.. thanks for the info.
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Post by Major_A on Aug 4, 2009 22:03:21 GMT -5
understood, gotcha! a fellow fish keeper maybe?
I'm just wondering if the water got clean
enough that the two bluegill I dumped in the duck pond that
the neighbor brought me are still alive. "Cause they eat everything in there!"
I can't keep a damned thing alive in their water
yet, plant or animal, unless I plumb it outside the main
body of water. Ducks should have been called pigs lol
Getting closer to windmill system.
Need a wheel bearing or whatever it's called that turns the
car wheel on a free spin. After I get that, then going to
check google earth in about 6 months to see if my garden
looks like a S.E.T.I. station since I already put a couple
in for the the ducks. They have sattelite, just didn't
have an extra tv to give them lol. Used for shade and rain collecting.
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