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After years of building and operating a backyard aquaponics system, and months of writing about aquaponics, until recently this question still stopped me in my…

My current system at home has-been…

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Over the past two posts on cooling, we learned about the…

Quick question concerning the balance of all the things going on in my aquaponics. Lately my fish have stopped eating and it is starting to concern me. My parameter levels are pH-6.6, ammonia-.5, nitrites-.25, nitrates-5. Are these normal ranges for an aquaponics? I thought I had read that the ammonia and nitrites should be near 0 once the system is cycled. The system was cycled before I added fish where ammonia and nitrites were basically 0 and nitrates were at least 80. Since I added fish…

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Hey everyone,

I am a little worried about my fish they have all of a sudden stopped eating, or at least coming to the surface to get the food.  In fact I haven't seen any fish in the last couple of days. The water is so murky that I can't see the bottom but I was able to see the fish as they came up for food. The other day I used a brush to move some the waste at the bottom of the tank around in hopes that it would find it's way to the pump and up into the grow bed. This is when I…

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Last week we learned about the four…

This year promises to be a great year for my system.  My system has been up and running for 11 months now.  I am not checking my system like I have in the past.  Last week my system had trace amounts of ammonia and Nitrites.  My Nitrates were sitting between 20-40.  PH was good.  I recently added another outlet to my fish tank.  The second outlet allows my to run a higher volume of water through the tank.  It was necessary because saw a fungus growing on some of my goldfish. 

Well, I had a revelation this week.

On Sunday I got heat exhaustion from gardening all weekend.  Laid out in bed all day Monday, I realized something profound.

It's not cold out anymore!  

Flowers are in full bloom; spinach is bolting; my greenhouse hit 100 last week with the fan running; and the water in my aquaponics threatens to break…

Hey guys! I am a Christian missionary and I recently got back from a month long missions trip that I took to Kenya Africa with a non profit I am a part of called YWAM (youth with a mission). I am the head of the farm here at our base in Los Angeles, and we build aquaponics systems to help end starvation and inspire hope and vision into the people of poverty stricken nations. Here is a blog post about the trip I just got back from. Please check it out.…

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An old man I met once told me this story:

One day - for some reason - four blind women were feeling what the old man had told them was an elephant.…

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We had a great time at the Tour de Tanks event at Maple Bottom (our little urban homestead) this weekend.  Beautiful weather and even more beautiful conversations!

Got…

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This post introduces a new feature to the Cold Weather Aquaponics blog: the…

I live in a small caribbean island, and there are limitations on species that are not local , can i just focus in the vegetable production and not in the raise of fishes? In that escenario, does it really matter the type of fish, can I use just local fishes or do they need specific characteristics in order to get the benefits of aquaponics (less watter, less energy, higher growth rates)? Help me please!

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I thought I’d share with you a question I got from a reader last week that strikes me as something that a lot of people probably wonder about:

Here is the question I’ve always wondered/worried about with aquaponics: What about soil…

Ria’s aquaponics journey

As part of my aquaponics journey, I have been experimenting with setting up my own system. This is my story so far.

I love challenges, so I gave myself a real challenge, by building the system in the forest that is my backyard. So I only get 3-4 hours sunshine which is not ideal for vegetables. Almost all vegetable seeds I find in the shops say…

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