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The first totes were delivered today. One will be the first fish tank. The other will be a sump.
Total Costs To Date:
2,500฿ ($71.00 USD) for each tote
$10.00 USD Customs (they should have pulled a gun)
$20.00 USD Tank delivery to Battambang.
$24.00 USD (2 trips, one person) Taxi fare (travel expenses) to border and back.
Some good news is, the dealer we purchased the totes from will now deal with us via phone, in the future. If we need any further totes, they will ship them to us without having to return to the border to deal with them.
NOTE: This thread will offer information, images, and expenses involved in the planning, purchasing, labor, construction and planting, of a 3 meters by 4 meters aquaponics system located in Battambang, Cambodia.
I just learned, from another expat living here, that fiberglass is available here.
All this time, I mean, the time I have spent considering options for my up and coming aquaponics system, not once did fiberglass ever enter my mind. I suppose, unless it is just now catching on, Khmers just prefer steel and poly for their tanks.
Soooo, tomorrow, I am going to go talk with the local fiberglass man and see if I can sort two tanks, for starters, a sump and a fish tank.
I have enough plastic bottle caps for two of these bottles, so far. They will become bio-filters for my aquaponics system, thanks to a suggestion by a guy I met through some farming forums, who lives near Phnom Penh.
It's also amazing how fast you can collect bottle caps, when you have a bunch of children running around town to gather them for you, at a cost of 3,000r / kilogram. Apparently, they fetch a better price from me, than they do for collecting the complete bottles for recycling. I'm good with that.