VENTURING INTO AGRICULTURE // SETTING UP FISH TANKS

Good day, everyone..
It's a pleasure to be writing in this community. This is my first post here.

One of my goals this year was to have a passive income or, should I say, a sidehustle. I already have a job and good for me, it operates remotely.

And because I work at home and the job gives me quite the time to rest and maybe, have some time off to attend to my other wants, I thought about this.

I live in a large compound, and I thought about doing something that would be no huge burden or be time-consuming, and the idea of owning a small fish tank occurred to me.

So I started to save up for it. Every month, I put some amount away. I'm not very knowledgeable about how it is run, but I was able to make consultations with experts who would put me through. Plus, it's a great relief that both my parents know how to run it. So, they may as well be managing it.

Finally, I was able to save some amounts, and I purchased the tanks. Six of them for a start. Today, we did the whole setting up.
Guess who did it? My dad! He is a pro-artisan in the area of plumbing. He learned the skill when he was much younger and practiced it as a side-hustle, and it's been of benefit to him and our entire family.

Even though I planned to get someone to do it so I don't get to stress him, he refused and did it all himself, while I assisted him in whatever way that I could. How lucky I am, you may say. I truly am. It helped save cost.

Watching him made me learn a thing or two, which would be beneficial to me in the long run. However, today, I'll share how we went about with the installation of the fish tanks. These connections were made so the tanks could easily be connected to a water source and also to an outlet drain.

Equipments and tools involved in the setup were

▪︎ Fish tank
▪︎ Pipes
▪︎ Ppc pipe
▪︎ Bend pipe
▪︎ Shovel
▪︎ Tap head
▪︎ Glue
▪︎ Saw blade

We started by arranging the tanks side by side and on a straight line so that it was easy to connect the pipes for ease of water and waste flow.

After that, we dug a long hole from the water source, which was our sumo water pump through to where the tanks are placed.

Once that was done, we connected the pipes and bonded them with glue to lengthen some and put them in the ground. Where there is a bend, we measure and cut the pipes using the saw-blade and then fix the bendpipe at that end before we go ahead to add some longer pipes.

That done, we connected pipes from the underground one to the tank overheard. This was for the water inlet.

Behind the tank, we connected pipes to the water outlets, down the tank, and then connected them to the draining pipe from where they'd run into the drainage system.

Tap-heads were also connected to the inlet and outlet pipes to ensure easy control of the water and waste sources.

It was a pretty tough job, but it left me frrling fulfilled seeing how much of a fine job that we did. I sure learned a lot, and it helped me save some money.

Now, we just await the fingerlings. There's a sad story to this one, being that the person whom I trusted and gave a huge amount to help me get them has not shown up. It's been over five months. All of my savings for a long while are hanging, and I feel so bad. If he had supplied them all these while, I sure would have gone some lengths in this farming. I may even have had my first reap-time, but it's all good.

For now, I'm looking to just raise some money and get a few fingerlings as I can afford inorder to keep up with my goal for this year while I think of what to do about the guy.

That's about it for now.
I look forward to updating this space on how this fish farming goes and to track my progress from here.

Thanks for stopping by.
SOKA 🖤