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Aquaponics
Everything You Need to Know to Start an Expert DIY Aquaponic System from Home
By William Walsworth
Copyright 2016 by BPI Publishing
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This books makes no guarantees of success or implied promises. Any type of strategy detailed in these pages can work or has worked for others, but results will vary based on individual efforts and circumstances.
st Edition, July 2016
The love of gardening,
Is a seed once sown
That never dies.
- Gertrude Jeckyll
Table of Contents
At the local community garden, I have a friend with a garden called Fish and Chips and Salad. It is only a small garden, about 18 square feet (2m ), and it looks quite strange. In addition to the signage, half of the garden is taken up by a large tank.
It may be a little gimmicky, but the name of that garden reveals an inspiring goal: to raise all of the ingredients needed for the titular meal. In that tiny garden, my friend really is growing fish, and potatoes, and salad. And what makes the garden even more special is that the entire meal will be grown with no waste, and no external input. How? Through aquaponics.
The term aquaponics originated in Cold-War era America, where A-bomb fears led to the combination of aquaculture (raising fish for consumption) and hydroponics (soil-less plant production). Scientists realized that these growing systems, which combine plants, fish and bacteria in a symbiotic system, could successfully produce food in small spaces, or even underground, should the need arise.
However, the 1950s preppers were not the first to use aquaponics. In fact, it is an age-old growing system. The Ancient Khmer, who built Cambodias Angkor Wat, introduced fish to their rice paddies in order to control insects and provide fertilizer, a practice still used throughout South East Asia today. A similar method of agriculture, where plants grow on floating structures and rely on the nutrients provided by aquatic life, has also been practiced by other ancient cultures including Mexicos Aztecs, Bolivias Uru peoples and the Egyptians of the Nile Delta.
While a system which balances bacteria, plants and fish may sound complicated, aquaponics is surprisingly simple. It allows you to produce a whole meal in a compact, environmentally-sustainable unit, and to create a self-sustaining ecosystem on a home scale.
This book is intended as a starting point for creating a backyard aquaponic system. It outlines how aquaponics works and the nature of the symbiosis between the elements. It also includes a brief overview of the different types of aquaponics systems, and trouble-shoots some common problems faced by home growers.
It is a long-term goal, but imagine how amazing that first meal of fish, and chips, and salad will be when grown in your own aquaponics system. Bon apptit!
At its most basic, aquaponics is nothing more than a plant grown in symbiosis (a mutually-beneficial relationship) with fish or other aquatic creatures. If you have a weeds or plants in your aquarium, you are practicing aquaponics.
An aquaponics system is a closed-system permaculture with three components:
1. Fish
2. Plants
3. Bacteria
These three components live side-by-side and work together to create an environment that is mutually advantageous. This means that the correct balance of each is required for the system to be healthy and functional. Achieving this balance, the pursuit of which is a little addictive, is the main goal of the aquaponic grower.
The needs of a plant are simple: air, water and nutrients. When provided with these essentials, plants then use the process of photosynthesis to convert ambient light into glucose, which is the building block of all vegetable matter.
Plants require a range of nutrients in different amounts in order to photosynthesize successfully. The beauty of aquaponics is that fish can provide plants with these nutrients. It is no wonder that plants love fish!
In a standard garden, animal manures might be used to provide plants with the nutrients that they need to grow. However, these manures must be composted or processed in order to make the nutrients they contain accessible.
In the same way, an aquaponic system functions when bacteria process fish waste, converting it into nitrates. This provides the plants with the nutrients they need to grow in a highly accessible form.
The aquaponics cycle begins when fish are fed, and create waste. This waste is largely ammonia, which can be fatal to fish at high levels. Therefore, nitrifying bacteria break it down into plant food. In absorbing this food, plants filter the water, which is then returned to the fish tank.
Figure 1: A basic aquaponics cycle
Some people might thing hydroponic and aquaponic gardening are very similar, and in some regards there are similarities, but there are certainly significant differences between the two methods of gardening. Whereas the hydroponic garden is a garden without soil, the aquaponic garden focuses mainly on a symbiosis of nutrients between plants and fishes. Also, both systems are very different from regular gardening as well. In a regular garden, the needs of plants are generally provided for in a more natural way:
- Sun provides light
- Rain provides water and may be supplemented with irrigation
- Soil provides a growing media and the nutrients that plants require
Growers may also improve the soil and provide plants with additional nutrients using fertilizers and composts.
In a hydroponic garden, on the other hand, the growing environment is more controlled:
- Plants are grown in an inert media
- Water is constantly cycled past plant roots, providing hydration
- Nutrients are provided in the cycling water, and come from custom-made, chemical mixes
The advantages of hydroponics over regular gardens include the improved hydration, as well as the higher level of control that growers have over the nutrients available to plants. Nutrient solutions are customized to suit plant species and their stage in the growth cycle, leaving to more consistent yields and improved production overall.
In comparison with natural gardening, aquaponic systems are similar to hydroponics with one key difference:
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