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So now you have done some research in to the water, media and materials for you Aquaponics system to understand how they will work for you. Now you need to design an aquaponics system. What kind of system? How much space will it take? How will it work? What kind of plants will it grow? . . . → Read More: Aquaponics is it simple or complex 2 Nature is it simple or complex? YES they are both. On the surface Aquaponics is very simple (and it can be fairly simple to operate too) but under the surface there can be some rather complex chemistry going on. For Aquaponics lets start with some of the seemingly simple starter ingredients for building a system. . . . → Read More: Aquaponics is it simple or complex But please remember to leave an e-mail address so that I may respond. This Blog Post Goes out to Robert in Texas who contacted me through my www.TCLynx.com web site but didn’t leave an e-mail address for me to respond. He asks for some pointers and notes how I often recommend starting small. Well yes . . . → Read More: Contact me I finally got a rain water tank set up by my tower system so Now I can show some pictures of my own RainSaucer™. Rain Saucer To Purchase RainSaucers™ click here Rain saucer 2 RainSaucers™ are a great way to catch clean rain water for your aquaponics system without the . . . → Read More: RainSaucers™ Pictures Yea, say that ten times fast! So, a few weeks ago the brains for my automated low pressure valve fried. A bug crawled in and got toasted between a couple transistors in the H-bridge and the smell of burnt electronics ensued. I did manage to get it working again for a day but then it . . . → Read More: pumperflouternating 300 gallon tower system. I started working on the prototype less than a week ago. So I planned this system around 10 Zipgrow towers and a 410 gallon fish tank with about 300 gallons of water in it. This is something of a “CHOP 2” type system where the fish tank overflows directly to a . . . → Read More: New System Announcing access to an array of new products. I was after one particular product but I figured I could allow people to look for others they might want as well. There is but one note I will make, I have only personally tested one of these products and it will be posted in the products . . . → Read More: New Products So, I realized I need to get some numbers on here to help those who don’t think in metric to figure out how much salt to use per gallon and so on. Salt can help protect fish a little from nitrite so having 1 ppt of salt in a system during initial cycle up is . . . → Read More: Salt for fish Health So you have built an Aquaponics system and water is circulating through it. So now what should you do? This starts the period of what we call cycling up an Aquaponics system. It can be done with fish or fishlessly. I am a big fan of fishless cycling since it removes most of the stress . . . → Read More: Cycling up a new system So you are designing an aquaponics system but how do you figure out what pump size to use? There are some simple minimum rules of thumb that can help. For media bed aquaponics design it is generally recommended to pump at least the volume of your fish tank each hour (and I usually pump more . . . → Read More: Pump Sizing |
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