Aquaponics Nutrients can be reclaimed by Filtering Aquaponics water by providing a light source.
Aquaponics Nutrients can be reclaimed by Filtering Aquaponics water by providing light source at the bottom of your tank(s). An example application can be accomplished with an HID (high intensity discharge lamp) lamp. The lower layers of an Aquaponics system can be clump up with anaerobic material that does not decompose easily. If one looks at [...]
How to Make a Window Farm – Gardening Rhythms
Easy Window Farming. Instructions for growing plants in a small space like an apartment or baloney. How to make a window farm for your own window using only 2 liter soda bottles and a hand full of parts from your garage. If you have a sunny or semi-sunny window, you can grow herbs and plants [...]
Solar Controller for Outdoor Aquaponics Systems
Solar Controller for Aquaponics for outdoor systems. The main problem with outdoor systems is controlling the temperature of the water when the weather gets too hot or cold. This is important for plant production and for growing algae to feed fish. Heating and cooling water is expensive if using electricity or natural gas. This solution [...]
Using Dead Fish as Aquaponics Fertilizer – Decomposing Fish
This is an explanation of using dead fish as Aquaponics Fertilizer – Decomposing Fish. Throughout the year, I harvest my fish or they die on their own. For the ones that die on their own, I normally throw them in the compost bin; but I found a way to use the Aquaponics system as a [...]
Hard Water-Chloramine-Chlorine-Dissolved Minerals Removal
When water comes to us from a wells, rains or cities, it normally has some or all of the elements of Chloramine, Chlorine or Dissolved Minerals. For us to make good compost teas, grow mushrooms, grow Aquaponics systems or just plain using water, we need to make sure it is safe for our plants and our [...]
Three Simple Quick Tips for Controlling Garden Pests – Video
Three Simple Quick Tips for Controlling Garden Pests. This video shows how to use Vinegar, Molasses and Spinosad to control weeds and comment pests without chemicals. All of the products can be bought in a hardware store or a grocery store. For more indepth information on natural pest control, Click here For more [...]
Aquatic Nitrogen Fixers for Aquaponics – Almost Fishless Auqaponics?
Aquatic Nitrogen Fixers for Fishless Aquaponics Systems. Nitrogen fixing is the way or a process where plants can take up nitrogen from the air and make it absorbable by roots. Plants cannot take nitrogen directly from the air. It first needs to be fixed. The chemical compound is NO3. Or called Nitrate. Nitrate is produced by [...]
New Tank Syndrome – break-in cycle – startup cycle – biological cycle – nitrification
Call it cycling, nitrification, biological cycle, startup cycle, break-in cycle, New Tank Syndrome or the nitrogen cycle. They are all the same thing. Water coming out of the tap does not normally contain all of the elements, microbiology and ecosystems to sustain fish. They has to be established for the fish to live. And last, the [...]
Aquaponics Fish Choices and Where to Purchase
There Fish Choices for Aquaponics Systems.The list below is just a start. Pick groups of fish with similar temperature ranges and foods. For more information on Aquaponics, Click here If you are interested in not feeding your fish, it is possiblde to pick the correct set of fish that eats algae, Click here Australian [...]
Choosing between Aquaponic Systems with Feeding Fish or Non Feeding Fish
Choosing between Aquaponics Systems with Feeding Fish or Non Feeding Fish has its advantages and disadvantages. We are not talking about non-feeding fish. All fish eat something. The question is what? Actually, the trade off comes down to your Nitrates. In a non-fed fish tank, the fish eat the algae that grow on the walls [...]
Tips and Case Studies for a Backyard Aquaponics – Video
Here are some Tips and Case Studies for a Backyard Aquaponics; how to choose the fish to adding iron to your system. This project starts with three sections; pond, fish tank and garden. One of the requirements is the fish cannot be feed. They need to live on their own without supplemental food. The energy [...]
Planting Method 1 – Flooding Plants in Ceramic Balls
There are several ways to plant plants in hydroponics and in Aquaponics. I found the easiest and most successful way is to plant in ceramic balls with no coconut husks or any soil. The method is simple and it works with the laws of nature. Plants cannot be grown directly in water. They need air by their roots as well as [...]
Microbiology For Leaves -Video
How disease suppression on leaves works is no secret. On the leave surface, each leave cell has many ports where fungi and bacteria can connect to. This is a normal process for plants. Good and bad fungi can connect. Good and bad bacteria can connect. Each micro organism takes up a connecting ”portal” on the leave [...]
Autosiphons – Bell Siphon – U-Bend – Gooseneck – Looped Siphons – Two Pipe Siphon
For Aquaponics to work with plants, they need to use Autosiphons – Bell Siphon – U-Bend – Gooseneck , Looped Siphons or Two Pipe Siphon to flood and drain your grow beds. Auto siphons are an alternive and reliable way of flooding and draining a hydroponics or aquaponic garden. The way it works is quorkly and kindof [...]
Hydroponics/Aquaponics
Hydroponics and Aquaponics almost use the same equipment, but the two methods of growing food or plants are different in the chemistry and root media. Hydroponics and Aquaponics use some sort of medium to hold the plant roots without soil. For hydroponics, chemical nutrients (generally petroleum based) are dissolved in water and then are pumped [...]