Fish Farms
Grow Your Own Barramundi, Trout, Silver Perch, Marron and Yabbies!
With a Suburban Farmer fish farm you can easily grow edible fish species that can be harvested to supply your family with fresh fish, produced from your own backyard.
Not only are you growing fresh fish, the filter used to clean the water grows fresh vegetables!
Fresh fish and a vegetable garden that you don’t need to water!
How does it work?
The water in a fish tank is high in nutrients and requires filtering. Instead of using a traditional filter, we pump the water into a specially built vegetable garden that feeds and waters your plants. In turn, the vegetable plants obtain the nutrients they need from the water, and return the filtered clean water to the fish tank.
Growing in this nutrient rich water your vegetables experience accelerated growth rates, are stronger and healthier and use about 10% of the water it takes to grow vegetable plants in soil.
Along with maintaining high levels of productivity, Suburban Farmer fish farm systems offer attractive designs, bringing a touch of class to backyard fish farming.
What we do
We install quality fish farm systems of various sizes capable of growing species such as barramundi, marron, trout, yabbies, black bream and silver perch. We can also retro- fit your existing water feature or pond by adding a water-wise vegetable garden filter.
With a tested simple design, our systems are easy to maintain, inexpensive to run and can fit in the corner of the patio or backyard. You only need 3 square metres in order to grow 25 fish and 30 - 50 vegetable plants.
Fish Farm Systems
Features of Suburban Farmer fish farms include:- Attractive water features that are highly productive
- Easy care – all you need to do is feed your fish!
- Include all the tools and equipment needed to successfully rear fish to eating size, without any prior knowledge of fish farming
- Easy to upgrade
- Only require 3 x 3 metres of space
- Inexpensive to run
- Operation manual included
- Choose from a range of colours : Over 20 colours available and can colour match.
- Any size and shape available, design your own!
- Separate components available for DIY
Fish
- Grow a range of species from Barramundi, Trout, Silver Perch, Marron, Yabbies and more
- Grow 25 fish per vegetable garden filter, and you can increase the amount of fish in your tank by adding more vegetable filters (which means more vegetables too!)
- Easy to look after and cheap to feed
- Grow fish according to the seasons: Barramundi in summer, Trout in the winter
Vegetable Garden Filter
- Grow better vegetables faster! Our fish farms use 10% of the water it takes to grow vegetable plants in the ground
- Grow more vegetables! The plants only compete for light so you can plant more vegetables in a smaller area
- Grow any vegetable!
- Can also grow fruits and herbs
- Certified Organic Seedlings available
Photos
Please remember that this is the latest model fish farm available, and that photos showing fish or vegetables growing are not available until the display is open to the public. These photos show the basic components of the fish farms, so you can see what they look like...and start imagining one in your backyard!
Below: Suburban Farmer fish farms - with round and square filter variations.
Below, this example shows the classic round shape fish tank coupled with one round vegetable garden filter. Both fish tank and vegetable filter tank are in cream.
The below photo shows the same fish tank but with a square vegetable garden filter. Square filters fit together well and particularly suit the space conscious. Remember that the colour is optional - This filter is in green, however another 19 colours are available!
Each wrought iron filter stand is hand made and the result is outstanding. You really need to see the stands in person to appreciate how good they look. They are a stunning piece of garden furniture! The stands are incredibly strong and available in aztec gold (as seen on the round stands) or silver (as seen on the square stands).
A newly setup vegetable filter added to an existing fish farm. These small seedlings will soon match those in the existing beds.
Individual components are available, such as fish tanks and filter tanks. They can be made to any size and if you have particular needs, please let us know!
Fish Tanks
Round and Square Vegetable Filters
Round Filter Tanks
Square Filter Tanks
Also available:
Pumps
AC-DC battery backup air pumps
Expanded Clay Media
Pipe kits for DIY
Where can I see a working display?
We will next be at the Perth Royal Show 2010 on 25th September - 2nd October.
Shortly afterwards, a permanent display will be available to the public. To be informed when this display is available please email info@suburbanfarmer.com.au and we'll be in touch with details closer to the date.
If you haven't previously seen vegetables growing in a fish farm system, below are a few photos from our previous models showing planted vegetable filters.
Pricing and Orders
To receive our pricing guide please complete the below form. The dimensions of the fish farm systems are included on the price list.
Consultation
Consultation services are available to discuss all aspects of our fish farms, discuss a custom solution or seek advice for a DIY fish farm. Topics covered include:
Fish Farm Operation
Maintenance
Fish Species and Care
Feeding
Filter System and Plants
Overall Performance
Consultations include a written report that summarises the concepts, ideas and recommendations we discuss during a visit.
For bookings please contact Mike on 0431 134 467 or at mike@suburbanfarmer.com.au
Fish Feed
Our feed is a high quality commercial aquaculture grade feed with optimised nutrition that provides a well balanced diet for the optimum health and growth performance of both your fish and plants.
Pellet Types:
Floating
Pellet sizes:
4mm and 7mm
Available amounts:
2.5kg and 5kg
Contact Mike on 0431 134 467 or mike@suburbanfarmer.com.au to arrange free delivery (within Perth metro area).
Fish Stock
In season stock available includes Barramundi, Trout, Silver Perch, Marron and Yabbies. For availability and delivery please contact info@suburbanfarmer.com.au
Coming Soon!
DIY Fish Farm plans and designs
Make your own backyard fish farms constructed using easily obtainable materials that you can get from any of the major hardware stores anywhere in the world. The plans which also detail the methods and materials used will soon be available, email info@suburbanfarmer.com.au to register your interest!
