Easter weekend

I can't wait for Easter weekend 2009 so we can get stuck in and finish off the rest of the building side of things , also we will be running our first water trials to even out the flow rates to the beds, The following weekend we will be adding the bedding material, we will be using different material in each of the beds to see which gives the best results. Our property has a ready supply of volcanic rock so we will use that in a couple of beds, Vermiculite in another couple, River sand in 2 beds and the last 2 will have the clay balls that they have in the commercial systems. The siphon will also have to be tested to make sure it starts first time every time, and setting the flood and drain heights for the beds and also the return to the fish tanks. Once this is all proven to be okay we will add duck weed to the top tank along with some yabbies which we will relocate from our dam. and in the 4 1000 lt fish tanks we are thinking of using a few different species of fish in each tank, thinking at present is silver perch, yellow belly, redfin, and coy but will check with fisheries dept first just to be sure. The system should be up and running by Queens birthday weekend and hopefully by then the fish are happy and plantlife will be on its way.