First post and links to my threads elsewhere

A new blog just for the fun of it so that I can show off my latest passion.
Actually this is a reignited passion as I used to have LOTS of fish tanks when we lived in town.
Now live in the bush and have lots of room to indulge in experimental things.
Because we are entirely solar powered, in the grip of a fairly severe drought and always want to have as small a carbon footprint as possible the concept of Aquaponics has huge appeal.

It all started with an article in Organic Gardener (ing?) about this bloke, called Joel Malcolm, in Perth who apparently grew 60kg of Barramundi and several hundred kilograms of veggies in his backyard. I bought his excellent book , read it cover to cover several times, and started building a similar system.
Check out his web site:-
http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/
and the associated forum
http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/forum/
All sorts of good stuff to be found there. A bit of chaff to wade through sometimes but also a lot of really great informantion.
I have a thread here :-
http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1431&highlight=
Another useful site is
http://www.aquaponicshq.com/forums/index.php
my thread is
http://www.aquaponicshq.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17
This one doesn't have as much activity and a lot less chatter but also some really useful info.
Both site are Australian based so most of the info applies to us.

Part of my justification for this blog is that I post to both sites on an irregular basis and this might enable me to keep a more current series of progress pics and thoughts.
The posters on both forums(?) are usually a lots further advanced that I am and probably aren't going to be as excited as I was today to discover that my catfish really love mosquito wrigglers for example.

You might have gathered from the somewhat disjointed waffle above that this blog will be a somewhat haphazard affair- but isn't that what blogs are for?? More later.