Northern Aquaponics

We're still making trips to pick up all the pieces but I think we'll have at least 4 IBC chop and flip style grow beds and 4 whole IBCs

We have 40 Sacramento Perch - roughly fingerling size with a couple slightly bigger ones the supplier gave us because the fingerlings weren't feed-trained but the bigger ones were.

We'd like to acquire giant river prawn for a (separate) tank as well.

How would you assemble these into a working system with these parameters? Curious to see the different designs!

The water temps are high enough for the bacteria to start doing their job so the fish can finally be fed again! https://youtube.com/shorts/26Cmt3fwWaI

Been very happy with how my aquaponics system and greenhouse handled winter so I figured I would post a short video showing it off for my first lemmy post. https://youtu.be/ybs6KNsngAc

I'm in Western Canada and this is my living room aquaponic setup with a living wall.

I designed and 3D printed the basket holders filled with hydroton clay balls. It has a standard aquarium air pump set up with a check valve and siphon out of the tank to pump to up to a manifold above the top row. The manifold lets me adjust the drip for each column. The right-hand side is a mix of succulents and aloe plants which has a fairly slow drip. The bottom row is mostly newer plants that are being rescued from a countertop pod garden when they've gotten too big and root bound. The light is a crappy cheap amazon grow light. It will probably be the first thing I upgrade.

As for the aquarium, the plants keep the nitrate level to about 5ppm. The red platys in the tank are happy and multiplying like crazy (4 born in the last 2 months). It's to the point I am going to re-home them and I bought a 2nd 50ga tank to avoid overstocking.

After about 4 months, I now clean the tank about once a month just to get the junk out of the substrate and bring the water level back up.