This is a SketchUp design of what I hope to do......



All water in the system is gravity fed. The long narrow pebble pond between the Fish Pond and the Wicking Beds is to store water and disperse via gate valves as needed into the reservoirs beneath the worm beds.... additionally also help in further breakdown of solids into nitrates. Once in teh reservoirs this is then wicked up as needed by normal water tension. I have been told it can wick up 300mm easily.

The reservoirs are 200mm and the wormbeds on top are 300mm... I will build up another 100mm higher just to keep soil in place..... soil will only come up 300mm. Mulch will be used at all times to save water and protect the worms. There will be an inspection pipe down into the reservoir to check water levels.

I will need to be sure to add enough wormbeds to be able to offload enough top up water to the fish to keep their water quality good. No pumps needed within the system... so no jam-ups with algae that feeds the fish.

What do you think? Any problems you can foresee?

Chelle