Aquaponics Update June 2015
Finally starting to get system back and running after a 12 month break due to operations and power supply problems. Guards to keep chooks and currawongs out. Fresh lettuces Spinach…
Aquaponic System Maintenance
Our system has been running for a few months now, and I thought I’d share my maintenance schedule. Daily Feeding – feed fish morning and night. Feed yabbies every second…
Testing Water in Aquaponics
It is important to monitor ammonia, nitrites, nitrates, temperature and the pH level of the water, to ensure that they are in ‘range’. If not, you need to take corrective…
Locating Your System
Before starting to create your aquaponics system, you should give some thought as to where you are going to put it. In many cases, you may not have a choice…
Water and Simple Living
The following us an updated version of an assignment submitted for my study in Writing the Zeitgeist at Curtin University. Live simply so that others may simply live – Gandhi.…
Commercial Aquaponics
The largest aquaponics facility in the world at: http://www.japan-aquaponics.com/largest-aquaponics-facility-in-the-world.html
Cycling and Aquaponics
It is important that before adding plants and fish to your newly aquaponics setup that you start it cycling. No, I don’t mean go and ride your bike, but you…
Plants and Aquaponics
Fish and plants are the main components of the aquaponics system. The growbed media provide the environment for the conversion of the ammonia produced by the fish, into nitrates that…
What do we mean by ‘sustainable’?
The dictionary provides lots of different definitions of this term. The meaning I am going to adopt is ” to supply with food and drink, or the necessities of life,…
The Birth of My Aquaponics System
In a previous post, I outlined the reasons why I decided to use aquaponics for producing fresh food for us. In this post, I am going to provide a photo…
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