Cedar's basement redneckaponics

[cedarswamp]

Well I've managed to hobble a system together from bit's and pieces I had layin' around mainly. It ain't much but it's been feeding me salads for a coulple of weeks now.

The FT is a 55 gallon aquarium I've had for years. It has an old HOB filter, a corner airstone filter, coulpe of 12' airstones, and a 300w heater all of which I already had. I have it sitting right on the floor insulated against heat loss with a piece of 1" rigid foam.



The current livestock



Water flows off the bottom of the FT into a rubbermaid tote/kitty litter bucket solids seperator through a couple of overflow siphons. One will handle the flow but I went with redundancy for piece of mind. The solids seperator is filled with scotchbriite pads, nylon pot scubbers and birdnetting. On hindsight I should probably remove the solids before they hit the biomedia to facilitate easier cleaning. I'll get that on my next system.


From the solids seperator water flows to a sump I added for more water volume when I added a couple of more small growbeds. The sump holds the pump and is stuffed with more bird netting as biomedia. After these pictures were taken I've added more rigid foam under both rubbermaid totes as I was losing to much heat to the concrete floor.

[cedarswamp]

From the sump water is pumped to 3 12 gallon tote growbeds.

The first runs on flood and drain with a bell siphon.


The second I just added a few weeks ago and runs on continuos flow.


And the third I just scrubbed out and purged the plants in one of my hydro DWC bins, and tied it into the second tote and run it as a continuos flow DWC. The potted plant is mint I trimmed back and potted to place outside shortly. That tarragon has to go too.



From the GB's everything drains back to the fish tank.

It's just a start, I got big plans.

[cedarswamp]

Sorry about the picture size, photobuckets goofy......

[urbanfarmer]

redneckaponics

AINT NUTTIN QUEER BOUT DAT SYSTOM.

GIT-R-DOOOOONE

[rfeiller]

now, that is a wonderful way to utilize what you have, it looks good and the crops will be pure profit.

[davidstcldfl]

lookin' nice

[samtheman]

Looks great!

[mistermoose]

I like it. Nice job. Keep on growing!

[cedarswamp]

Thanks y'all.