Background

This is a guide to a hit and miss, handy-man, swimming pool conversion to acquaponics set up. I thought I'd write this up so others thinking of doing the same thing could see what might work and what might not.

This project began around the middle of the 2010 calender year after my neighbour handed me one of 48 Barramundi he had harvested from his standardised acquaponics set up next door.

Not long after the government announced severe water restrictions, after a winter of virtually no rain, and keen vegetable growers like myself faced the prospect of having to pull up our gardens over the summer.

An aquaponics system seemed like a way to solve a number of issues - including what to do with your swimming pool when the kids have left home and it gets little use. How to water your vegetables in the face of severe water restrictions, and how to afford fish when the cost keeps skyrocketing.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Early Days

Prompted by increasing environmental awareness, diminishing demand for the use of the swimming pool after the kids left home and the exhorbitant price of fish - the idea for converting our backyard swimming pool into an aquaponics system started to take shape.

Having a neighbor who was already into this movement was an added advantage, but I couldn't find too much information on people who were converting their swimming pools into these types of systems - most people bought standard sized units from professional aquaponics suppliers which were efficient but frankly very ugly and not very nice environments for the animals (fish).

I was keen to create something aesthetically pleasing as well as practical. Below is a photo of the swimming pool before we started the conversion.
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