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Aquaponics System for Beginners

Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that everyone can try. It can both serve as a hobby, and later on be a business that will surely generate money. Before dwelling on further details, what is really the definition of Aquaponics? Is it something that is too complex to learn by average person? The answer is definitely, YES. It is defined as a system that combines aquaculture (refers to raising of aquatic animals, - fish, prawns, crayfish inside aquariums or tanks), and Hydroponics (pertains to cultivating plants in water). Overall, if you combine these 2 words, you get an idea of plants and aquatic animals living in a symbiotic relationship, or in a re-circulating system, the effluents of one area, will be beneficial for the other and vice versa. So, how can you make your own Aquaponics System? One thing that you must understand here, is that most of its components are man-made. Therefore it greatly depends on the design, construction, and maintenance of people. First, l...