La Tortuga...updated 05-03-15

[browncrown]

Love your creativity Bansil !

[bansil]

thanks ya'll

I added some water hysteria and parrot feather, along with ten .38 gold fishes from wally world...5 or 6 have died and still have 8 fishes


wally world employee can't count I guess, we have gotten so much rain I have to empty it every couple of days or so...

I need to work on bus...I have ignored her all summer

[sojourner]

Originally Posted by bansil

I grew up making boats from 1/2 gallon cardboard milk cartons, and then added a "crew" apparently dead mice according to mom

I floated my armada down storm drains and gutters...

We used to do a similar thing. We'd go to the lumber yard and beg for their scrap cutoffs. Then we'd nail the pieces together to make boats and set them off way upstream in the creek that ran through town. We'd throw rocks on one side and the other to guide them down the creek. It'd take all day. Oh the joys of pre-videogame human existence.

Great job on the metal work, by the way. Doin' the utility kind of stuff on mine but can't wait until I get to the inside to get to the fun.

[browncrown]

Sorry some of the fishes died, but love the fountain

[milkmania]

Originally Posted by bansil

thanks ya'll

I added some water hysteria and parrot feather, along with ten .38 gold fishes from wally world...5 or 6 have died and still have 8 fishes


wally world employee can't count I guess, we have gotten so much rain I have to empty it every couple of days or so...

I need to work on bus...I have ignored her all summer

probably why there stopped selling them in my Oklahoma walmart
Boss: What happened? we started out with 3700, now we have 11... what happened?
Employee: I dunno, 3 gazinta 4, 6 times with 38 left over, right?
Boss: yes, so where'd the other 12 fish go?

[sojourner]

A big problem you'll have with the fish in that system is the zinc from the galvanized tub. Zinc and copper are toxic to fish. Been keeping tilapia for over 12 years. Don't ask me how I know it's toxic. Suffice it to say I killed over 200 fish in the 1-1/2lb. range once due to zinc toxicity.

[bansil]

Cool,thanks for advice
This is/was more of an experiment for when I do my pond later

I haven't checked pH or anything and they have been shocked by mother nature at least 3 times with all the rain we have gotten, keep having to empty about 3 gallons of water out

[sojourner]

Originally Posted by bansil

Cool,thanks for advice
This is/was more of an experiment for when I do my pond later

I haven't checked pH or anything and they have been shocked by mother nature at least 3 times with all the rain we have gotten, keep having to empty about 3 gallons of water out

The rain has been your saving grace. A phrase you might want to remember when doing any kind of aquaculture: "The solution to pollution is dilution". That being said, keep away from uncoated zinc and copper when it comes to aquatic creatures and everyone will be happier in the end.

[crazycal]

Originally Posted by sojourner

A big problem you'll have with the fish in that system is the zinc from the galvanized tub. Zinc and copper are toxic to fish. Been keeping tilapia for over 12 years. Don't ask me how I know it's toxic. Suffice it to say I killed over 200 fish in the 1-1/2lb. range once due to zinc toxicity.

Very interesting. Is this a hobby or business. Maybe you can start a thread about it.

[sojourner]

Originally Posted by crazycal

Very interesting. Is this a hobby or business. Maybe you can start a thread about it.

Actually both. If you google my name Travis W, Hughey you'll find I started the whole Barrel-ponics craze concerning aquaponics. My systems, and variations of it, are built all over the world even 10 years later. I raise tilapia here by the thousands and sell fingerlings by the hundreds. I also have a retail product called My Aqua Farm after giving away the information on how to build an aquaponics system yourself with the Barrel-Ponics manual.
Not sure though how the whole aquaponics thing really fits into the skoolie thing but I have entertained using a skoolie converted to a rolling greenhouse to demonstrate aquaponics.
Sorry, I didn't mean to hijack a thread or anything like that.

[crazycal]

Sorry Bansil but curiosity got the better of me. I think I may have come across your site before. A buddy of mine used a IBC tote and was raising Tilapia.

If you are OK with it I would like to move this to a new thread.

[bansil]

surrrrreee your sorry

I think I read some of your site wen you first started, lets start a hydroponicts thread in everything else; I am curious if it's feasible and what all vegies you can grow

[sojourner]

Originally Posted by crazycal

Sorry Bansil but curiosity got the better of me. I think I may have come across your site before. A buddy of mine used a IBC tote and was raising Tilapia.

If you are OK with it I would like to move this to a new thread.

I'm not bansil 😁.
Here's the link to a new thread:

http://www.skoolie.net/forums/f9/aqu...tml#post117885

[juliol]

Originally Posted by bansil

I found a couple $1 lights at a garage sale


took them apart, sand blasted and then sprayed them


added a yellow LED with a stock 1156 mount


next was to mount them


looks crooked because it is(mounts loose, I need some SS allthread)


Started working on front AC unit,




access to roof


lights off, they will be replaced once modified for airflow (bottom 1/2 will be notched between screw holes)


screens installed



And walla' here is the roughed in version



Still need to mount a drain pan and send the hot exhaust air out the roof vents,I ran it today as a vent/fan and it

pulled nice cool air in.



oh and found some more curtain hooks




next Major project will be to fix the door and paint the whole bus...Lisa found a green she likes...

Hey, how did you do the exhaust on the A/C do you have pics?

J

[crazycal]

Kinda reminds me of this.

[EastCoastCB]

[sojourner]

Love the AC location and ducting. Reminds me of
"Danger Will Robinson!!!"

[Kipin]

Looking good! I've seen another bus with the front AC done that way. I have been trying to find the build thread since I really liked the design. Keep up the good work and take lots of Pics!

[crazycal]

Originally Posted by EastCoastCB

I think you missed the point of my post. The Munster Mobile had similar lights mounted on the side.

[EastCoastCB]

Originally Posted by crazycal

I think you missed the point of my post. The Munster Mobile had similar lights mounted on the side.

So does Lazy Luke and Blubber Bear's car.