500 or 1000 Litre

[KenR60]

Question, I see Bunning's are selling 500Litre Round containers with a Lid for $89.00 seems to be a good quality green Plastic look. If I was to buy one and connect the water flow to my 8,000 Litre Pond how many eatable fish and what type would be best suited? The other Option is the White 1000 Litre containers which would be about $100-130 each so I'm guessing double the amount of fish in the 1000 litre Tubs? I'm not worried about going into the eatable fish in a big way just thought I'd like to give it ago as Goldfish lack taste ... LOL

[fishfood]

Question, I see Bunning's are selling 500Litre Round containers with a Lid for $89.00 seems to be a good quality green Plastic look. If I was to buy one and connect the water flow to my 8,000 Litre Pond how many eatable fish and what type would be best suited? The other Option is the White 1000 Litre containers which would be about $100-130 each so I'm guessing double the amount of fish in the 1000 litre Tubs? I'm not worried about going into the eatable fish in a big way just thought I'd like to give it ago as Goldfish lack taste ... LOL

Those 500 litre bunnings drums are not food grade [made from nasty stuff] go the 1000 one provided it hasent had nasties in it alternative get one of those mega bins like Garry has

[bunya boy]

Ken,
Wouldn't trust those tanks to be food grade. It normally notes on these tanks that they are not for potable water i.e. drinking water, and they could contain toxins which may leech out and either kill your fish or you end up eating them!
This is why they are so cheap, made in China, and any country that puts Melamine in Baby formula could put anything into these containers.
I use Naly Mega bins as well, but I have added some insulation etc to them so they are unrecognisable as MegaBins!

Fish numbers: 1000 litres with sufficient GB volume and feeding regime, allow about 3kgs of Grown out fish per 100 Litres of Gb volume. So, you should be able to keep about 50 plate sized fish. That's how many Jade Perch I'm planning for in my 1000Litre (nominal) Fish Tank. And will be getting 100 Trout for next winter with extra 1000 litres of GB/FT.

Cheers Ian K.
ps: I would love to come down one day and have a look at your pool/deck/usd aquarium etc?

[KenR60]

Thanks Fishfood and Bunya, Yeah should have know better to read anything imprinted into the tub. Just got excited seeing such a Big round tub for that value!!!!!

OK so 50 Jades, sounds good, I'll keep a look out now for a 1000 Litre Tank now so I can get started. Ian, sure you are always welcome to come see my Deck/Pond and Ideas. I value anyones thoughts when they see it as I've still got so much to learn and have a feeling I need to re-do the method I've used for the Plumbing/Water sending to the Pot System.

[froggo]

Hi KenR60,

I don't know about the jade perch but silver perch should be fine to growout in your pond.

If you look at my thread I have a large fishpond with goldfish and also have silvers with them.

The silvers and goldies get along fine together. Silvers eat more and more greens as they grow bigger so are good with other species.

Just a thought anyway,

God bless, froggo.

[KenR60]

I'd rather not add them to the pond because of the Natives and other species of fish I have there. I think it would be better to completely separate them and they will be housed around the corner behind my Fence and Gate ( where My Plumbing and Filterbox is stored. The water from the Clean end of my Filter will be pumped into the 1000 litre tank and then from there back into the Filter.

[DaveOponic]

[QUOTE=bunya boy;17519]Ken,

I use Naly Mega bins as well, but I have added some insulation etc to them so they are unrecognisable as MegaBins!

Ian is the pic you have posted a "Mega Bin" What is it made from?

Dave

[GaryD]

Hi Dave,

This is a mega bin......and it's made from polyethylene. They are perfect for use as small fish tanks.....and many other backyard food production purposes.

They hold 780 litres and they measure 1162mm x 1162mm x 780mm.

They can be fitted with a bottom drain. We own four of them.

Gary

[bunya boy]

Dave,

Ian is the pic you have posted a "Mega Bin" What is it made from?

The picture shows the final result of insulating a Mega Bin ready for fish.
As Gary said, they are food grade PE, strongly made and locally available. Mine was $300 delivered from: http://www.peopleinplastic.com.au/Pr...ase-sides-grey
They also have purpose made lids, but for an extra $200, I didn't consider it worth it. Of course lids would be obligatory if the bins were to be used for their original purpose of food transport.

I have cut viewing panels in the side and added 75mm thick colorbond steel faced EPS insulation (Bondor EPS panel) to the 4 sides and the base. Just trimmed out with a bit of HW decking and some colorbond flashing. The little tank on top is one of Murray's 130 litre FG tanks treated in the same manner.

Other pics of process.
Cheers IanK

[GaryD]

Hi Ian,

You've made a tidy job of converting your mega bin. I particularly like the viewing windows.

Gary