Aquaponics 101

Having your own fish ponds, and fish tanks seems to be an interesting thing right? You will know the whole cycle of how they live, reproduce, and eventually selling them to the market. Same is true with maintaining your own farm - planting seeds or seedlings, giving them nutrients/ fertilizers, then harvesting the fruits when they plentiful already. Both of these sound cool and beneficial right? It has been practiced for years already and been proven to yield food products and money as well. Today, there is a new food production system that is slowly gaining popularity- and that is Aquaponics.

Do you have enough Aquaponics Information? Most people will say no, since this is not really that popular, but by reading through this article, you will be able to see the whole perspective of the system.

Aquaponics as I said earlier combines Aquaculture and Hydroponics. If you want to build your own system, you will need the following: plant beds, solid drain, fish tanks, thin tubes, your own choice of fish species, and plants. If you are having doubts on whether it requires a lot of money, definitely, the answer is No. You can even be nature friendly, and recycle some of the things you have at home - like scrap wood which can be used for plant beds, old plastic containers and basins for your fish tanks and plant accessories.

As for the technical part of making your Aquaponics system work - it is not too difficult that will also allow genius people to do it. In reality, it is very simple to do. For starters, you can have a Media-filled Aquaponics system first. Meaning, your plant beds will be filled with media (like clay, or soil), and this will serve as the foundation of the roots of your plants. The nutrient-rich water will then be flowed into this, allowing the media to absorb and slightly drain the excess water. Through analysis in this setup, you can see that it just involves the basic knowledge of watering the plants,and taking care of the fish to ensure that none of them will die.

The type of system you will use depends upon whether you like a Continuous water flow system, where the water coming from the fish tanks will be flowed continuously to your plant bed once needed, or apply the flood and drain type- which is based on the concept that there is an overflow limit, and once the water exceeds it either by supply of by the natural waves that occurs, the plant beds act as catch basin.

Lastly, for the fish and plants you can use- the truth is you can have a lot of combination depending upon your location, budget, and interest. If you want less maintenance- go for Tilapia, since they are easy to breed and can live in poor water conditions. For the higher end practitioners, you can use Carp and Koi. As for the plants, if you are for food production system, use root crops since they grow well - bigger than the usual plants cultivated in a normal soil setup.

G. Medina is an aquaponics expert. For more great information on aquaponics information, visit http://www.smallaquaponicssystem.com/.


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