parker0313
Aquarium Advice Newbie
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- Oct 24, 2011
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Hey everyone,
I was doing the usual "YouTube Journey" and came across this new thing called aquaponics. If ya'll haven't heard of it, in a nutshell you have a pond/tank/whatever, put some fish in there and they crap.
The water is pumped to some grow beds where there is a medium like small rocks or the balled clay and the plants feed off of the ammonium/nitrite/nitrate cycle and return the water filtered of toxins kind of like a big filter like everyone has on their normal tanks.
People are using this to grow out talapia for food but it seems like it could also be a cool was to set up an outdoor pond using the growbed to have plants other than the underwater variety. *gasp* blasphemy I know but part of having a planted aquarium for me is creating a balance and watching nature work it's magic. This looks like interesting way of accomplishing that... well other than the pump and not using dirt in the growbed.
I'm thinking of making a container pond with goldfish some water lettuce and a few water lilies. Then building the grow bed offset and having the return acting as a waterfall into the pond. If I build it clean enough maybe some ivy would look good and a few jalapeno plants. I don't think I will go crazy and create a tomato garden. Just something that functions and is a little different than the normal everyday pond.
Anyway, I thought this could make for good discussion here. If anyone has any thoughts I would like to hear them.
Here's a few video's explaining what this aquaponics stuff is about.
straight to the point animated -
Here's on that goes in depth
-Parker
I was doing the usual "YouTube Journey" and came across this new thing called aquaponics. If ya'll haven't heard of it, in a nutshell you have a pond/tank/whatever, put some fish in there and they crap.
The water is pumped to some grow beds where there is a medium like small rocks or the balled clay and the plants feed off of the ammonium/nitrite/nitrate cycle and return the water filtered of toxins kind of like a big filter like everyone has on their normal tanks.
People are using this to grow out talapia for food but it seems like it could also be a cool was to set up an outdoor pond using the growbed to have plants other than the underwater variety. *gasp* blasphemy I know but part of having a planted aquarium for me is creating a balance and watching nature work it's magic. This looks like interesting way of accomplishing that... well other than the pump and not using dirt in the growbed.
I'm thinking of making a container pond with goldfish some water lettuce and a few water lilies. Then building the grow bed offset and having the return acting as a waterfall into the pond. If I build it clean enough maybe some ivy would look good and a few jalapeno plants. I don't think I will go crazy and create a tomato garden. Just something that functions and is a little different than the normal everyday pond.
Anyway, I thought this could make for good discussion here. If anyone has any thoughts I would like to hear them.
Here's a few video's explaining what this aquaponics stuff is about.
straight to the point animated -
Here's on that goes in depth
-Parker
