Aquaponics, backyard and home systems. Aquaponics is the practice of growing fish and plants in a closed system. Backyard systems or home aquaponics systems are now readily available in Australia. A typical system will allow you to grow fish and a range of vegetables using the one system, nutrients from feeding fish are used to fertilize vegetables, water is circulated automatically. See also , aquaculture, aquaponics system, hydroponics
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Aquaponics has been practiced for many years and perhaps has its origins in China. Commercial systems are becoming popular and home and backyard Aquaponic systems are now available for purchase in kit form. Aquaponics can provide both a sustainable form of agriculture as well as an organic system of growing fish and plants together.
Aquaponic systems consist of four sections, a biofilter, a solids removal tank, a fish growing tank and a hydroponic system for growing vegetables or other plants.

The solids removal tank in an aquaponics system is designed to remove solid waste from the fish tank before the water passes through the biofilter.

The biofilter in a backyard or home aquaponics system is usually a gravel bed.

The hydroponic growing system is usually designed for deep flow hydroponics where the roots of the plants actually sit in water or for a NFT system (nutrient film technique) where a constant small flow (film) of water passes along channels that the roots of plants have access to.

The fish tank is for growing fish, in Australia Baramundi and Trout are popular species.
 

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