Aquaponics is amazing! I'll leave it to the experts to give you the details... here is the wiki on it.
My basic understanding is that it is a complete cycle like this...
Fish eat food and then poop > Fish waste eventually turns into ntrates in the water which is toxic for the fish but plants love it > Plants absorb nitrates > The water that is left is clean enough to be put back into the fish tank starting the cycle all over again.
We harvest and eat the veges and fish. The vege scrapes are put into the compost bin which eventually becomes another source of plant food.
I would like to add one thing to this and that is fish food. If we could produce our own natural fish food then there would be hardly anything processed added to the system.
My basic understanding is that it is a complete cycle like this...
Fish eat food and then poop > Fish waste eventually turns into ntrates in the water which is toxic for the fish but plants love it > Plants absorb nitrates > The water that is left is clean enough to be put back into the fish tank starting the cycle all over again.
We harvest and eat the veges and fish. The vege scrapes are put into the compost bin which eventually becomes another source of plant food.
I would like to add one thing to this and that is fish food. If we could produce our own natural fish food then there would be hardly anything processed added to the system.
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