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Aquaponics

HOW TO  CHOSE A GREENHOUSE FOR YOUR GARDEN OR AQUAPONICS SYSTEM: Choosing the best greenhouse for your garden depends upon various factors, including your gardening goals, budget, location, and personal preferences. However, if you are wanting to run an aquaponics… Continue Reading…

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Starting Aquaponics – The Safest Way to Medicate Fish    An important step in setting up Aquaponics is to medicate your fish prior to adding them to your system. This video shows you how to medicate your new fish… Continue Reading…

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Designing Aquaponics – Bell Siphon or Floating Raft Kratky Trays?    When it comes to designing aquaponics, you can either build your plant grow trays with a bell siphon flood and drain system or you can use a floating… Continue Reading…

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4 Reasons We Converted to Aquaponics    If you’ve spent much time in outside gardening, you know that soil beds have their place out in a large yard where you can plot grow beds that are deep enough to… Continue Reading…

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Problems with Aquaponics – Avoiding 5 Common Mistakes    When designing an Aquaponic systems to grow plants with fish, it is important to keep five key factors in mind. If you make one of these common mistakes, it can… Continue Reading…

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  Growing Beans and Tomatoes in Aquaponics  Aquaponics is soilless growing method that utilizes the nutrients found in fish water to fertilize and hydrate plants. Green Beans and Tomatoes are some of the vegetables that grow well in Aquaponics,… Continue Reading…

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Starting Beans in Hydroponics – Germinating and Transplanting Beans    Beans can be difficult to germinate in Aquaponics if overnight temperatures in the greenhouse are not able to be held between 70 and 80 degrees. We found that if… Continue Reading…

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How to Clean Aquarium Sponge Filters   Aquarium Sponge Filters often provide a critical component to any aquatic filter system. Whether they are being used to purify and aerate fish water in aquaponic or aquarium fish tanks, these mechanical and… Continue Reading…

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How to Transfer Fish from One Aquarium to Another   There are many ways to transport fish from one aquarium to another. The most common method involves floating a bag containing fish with the old tank water and placing it… Continue Reading…

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Cleaning and Winterizing Aquaponics   Cleaning and Winterizing Aquaponics can be difficult if you are trying to maintain fish over the winter without the use of plants and growbeds to denitrify fish water in your aquaponics system. Since the cost… Continue Reading…