For those just getting started, my experiences and decisions are chronicled in the link below.

1-Utah-Aquaponics-System-Part-1-(Feb-2009)

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A mature Aquaponic system generally only needs minor additions of Iron and perhaps Potassium, Magnesium or Calcium. However, variations in the PH of the source water, the quality of the fish feed, PH adjustment method, and media used in your grow beds can all affect the nutrient balance. There are several ways of knowing various levels of the key components of your system. The most complete and accurate is to send a sample of your system water to reputable water quality lab for testing on a regular basis. However, there are many individual testing kits for various elements as well as several complete kits. In this article, I review the usefulness of several such kits. ...

One challenge of raising flowering-fruiting crops in an enclosed environment is that there are no natural pollinators to assist in pollinating the crops. Without adequate pollination our crop production can be substantially diminished. ...

Monitoring an Aquaponic Systems is essential to success. Even a few minutes without circulating water and aeration can result in significant stress on the fish and prolonged down time will lead to fish

The success of an aquaponic or aquaculture venture depends on providing as near an optimum environment for the rapid growth of the fish as possible. Of all the environmental factors, water quality and in particular, dissolved oxygen (DO) is the most important and critical. Although the air we breathe usually contains about 21% oxygen, oxygen is only slightly soluble in water. As a result, aquatic species must spend a great deal of energy to remove what little dissolved oxygen there is. Tempera...

I picked this up on one of the other forums, originally posted by Kellerw on a pond oriented site.









He further reported that it takes 40-60 hours for a dead battery to initially recharge. This would only be a problem if you have back to back long outages. It is recommended that you have a backup generator for any serious sized system and use the battery backup as the second backup to run the air pumps in the event the g...

Aquaponic Rafts are generally made from construction grade polystyrene sheets. In large commercial aquaponic raft systems, entire uncut 4 x 8 foot sheets are used and the aquaponic raft tanks may be 8 feet wide by 100 feet or more in length. New seedlings are placed in clean empty raft boards at one end of the system and harvest ready boards are removed and emptied of plants at the other. In home aquaponic systems smaller raft tanks and smaller aquaponic raft boards are used. 2 x 4 feet is a...