Comments on: Convert Your Eco-Unfriendly Swimming Pool into a Biologically Active and Attractive Fish Farm!

By: Rick Hill

Rick Hill — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:14:26 +0000

I was wondering if a friend and I could visit Justin and Vanessa’s project sometime in the future as I am determined to convert my pool to a biologically sustainable fishpond. I live at Verrierdale on the Sunshine Coast which is near Eumundi. I have 5 acres which I want to get much more productive foodwise.

Please pass my message to J and V for their approval or not.

Rick Hill

By: Chris Green

Chris Green — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:56:05 +0000

Wow an amazing article and what a great idea. Wish I would have done this with the aquaponics garden we had set up in our old home. We had a broken down pool but just kept it empty as to not waste water. Really wish we would have read this 3 years ago.

By: terry bush

terry bush — Sun, 15 May 2011 10:16:13 +0000

The difference is yabbies have a smooth shell and crayfish have spines or bumps

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:51:19 +0000

This question is for Luisa, I was wondering what exactly do you mean by Crayfish? or do you simply mean Yabbies??

Just very interested.

Cheers
Steve

By: Justin Sharman-Selvidge

Justin Sharman-Selvidge — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:27:17 +0000

If you want to go small on these types of set ups then go to the aquaponics forum for advice or better still grab one of Murry Hallams videos he is very experienced the smaller the system the more management required.(video available on this site)
If you are going big then Nick Romanowski has some excellent aquaculture resources and would be considered the “guru” of that type of extensive Aqua culture.Converting my pool has been the best experience imaginable,it produces twice its surface area in rich compost materials supports many species of edible plants host many beneficial bugs and insects.I feed my chickens about 200grams per week of small native fish which supplements their protein,and I now have visibility to the bottom of the pool almost clear water.I still have 4 large Silver perch in the pool about 400-600 grams each.If I wished I could increase the fish stocks by adding a small pump and aerator and fertilizing the pool to create more food for them to eat.At the moment it suits me to keep it as is.I will post an update at the end of January after I have made some more observations on the pro and con of the different things I have tried.
Thanks everyone for their interest,I would like to answer more questions but I believe that if you are going to run a system like this and keep it healthy there is no easy one thing fits all,it’s best to really research it so when you are observing your system you are making judgements based on the science.Francoise one of the earlier posters came over to see the system,anyone who is in my area is more than welcome to do the same please give me some notice before dropping around.I am most easily contacted through face book.
Thanks
Justin

By: yan park

yan park — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:45:51 +0000

It seems great. I don’t like to have a pool fence. If I convert my pool into one like you have, is it OK without a pool fence? Thanks.

By: sean

sean — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:51:38 +0000

Gday, I’m hoping to turn our 3.6 diameter x 1.2 deep poly pool into a red claw / silver perch set up. might even try barra. can anyone tell me about the filtering side of things to do this ? thx chizo

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:03:35 +0000

I am in California and would like to convert my pool into a fish farm pond. do you all know of an organization I can contact in the USA?

By: emma

emma — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:58:32 +0000

How many fish could comfortably live in a bath tub?
can the same principle aply to bath tub?

By: Amanda Townsend

Amanda Townsend — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:25:15 +0000

This is really cool!

Surprised you don’t eat the fish you raise. Sure you’ve got friends who wouldn’t mind a spot of fishing over a beer or two.

Any frogs in there?