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AQUAPONICS
Grow your Vegetables and Fish in your own backyard Aquaponics System.
A fun and interesting project. |
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Murray Hallam's Aquaponics Site
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Aquaponics information Aquaponic Systems and Hardware |
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This is Australia's premier Aquaponics website. Your source of information , purpose built components for Aquaponics systems both domestic and commercial.
We encourage you to consider the value in producing as much quality, chemical free food as possible..... Aquaponics is a wonderful way to produce fresh fish and vegetables. It is water wise, high density and by it's very nature, organic.
Profitable opportunities exist for the production of quality freshwater fish and vegetables for the commercial market. We have available the expertise and hardware to commission your farm project.
We manufacture and supply, Fish tanks, Grow beds, Grow troughs, Swirl filters, Nitrification filters, Domestic aquaponics kits, Modular turn-key farm projects.
Our products are manufactured from long lasting, stable Marine grade fibreglass. |
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Ready-to-go Aquaponic Kits........ Balcony Kits, Homestead Kits .... Click Here
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| ABOVE: - A Grow Bed in my 2300 litre Aquaponics system. In the foreground are various lettuce varieties and parsley, then a cucumber vine, and in the background are tomato bushes, sweet basil and a marigold to help with bug control. Not seen are , Italian parsley, silver beet and some climbing beans. This Aquaponics Grow Bed is 300mm deep and is filled with coco peat. Usually the Aquaponics Grow Bed is filled with 10 - 20 mm gravel. |
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| Cos Lettuce so very luxuriant, they are perfect in size and texture. Cos lettuce do very well in aquaponics systems . The Silver Perch love a leaf or two dropped into the fish tank. |
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ABOVE:- A Silver Perch in my Homestead Aquaponics system swimming at the surface at feeding time. This Silver Perch weighed in at 1.2 kg |
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Cucumbers almost ready for picking in an Aquaponics system. |
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A newly installed Homestead Kit in a carport.
The roof of the carport is roofing iron over the fish tank to keep direct sunlight off the fish.
The rest of the roof is clear plastic roofing sheets to allow good light onto the plants.
Later bug cloth roll up walls, or clear greenhouse plastic walls can be added.
A very tidy and practical installation. |
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This is second Aquaponic s kit in my "Ready-to-go" domestic Aquaponics kits.
Just assemble, add grow bed media, water, fish and plants
This Back Patio Aquaponics kit is for serious home food production and is able to be expanded if desired.
This Back Patio Aquaponics kit comes with 4 x 230 litre grow beds, but is capable of being expanded to run up to 8 x 230 ltr grow beds, or an additional 2 standard 585 ltr grow beds at maximum fish stocking levels.
Learn more about my Aquaponic Kits
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Another Homestead kit packed ready for transport.
This particular kit has 7 grow beds instead of the usual 4. The owner wishes to utilise all the space in the large greenhouse they have. We also sent them a quantity of new greenhouse covering, Polyweave tear resistant film, to refirbish their existing greenhouse.
We have increased our manufacturing capacity and are now catching up on back orders of our kits.
We will soon be installing some new equipment that will assist us further, in shortening delivery lead times.
Aquaponics is really the way of the future for home food production. |
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Aquaponics ! What is it ?
Aquaponics is the creation of a complete cycle of symbiotic relationships where the fish help plants and the plants help fish.
Aquaponics uses no chemicals, requires one tenth of the water needed for field plant production and only a fraction of the water that is used for fish culture. (Aquaculture)
This is truly a remarkable system, because it works so well. The fish actually supply nutrients to a bed of plants, (called Grow Beds) and plants clean up the water that the fish live in, making a mutual beneficial environment for both. The only external input to the system is food for the fish. The plants grow in a Grow Bed
Both Aquaponics systems compliment each other as a single unit, not as separate units.
The fish water is pumped to the Grow Beds, and is evenly distributed by a simple system of pipes. The fish water feeds the plants, such as tomato's, cucumbers, lettuce and other green leafy vegetables, then filters through the grow bed that is filled with gravel / round river stones, finally returning to the fish tank by gravity or by pump. The water is returned to the fish tank cleaned ready for use by the fish, and so the cycle continues.
So an Aquaponics system is made up of a tank containing the fish of choice, and a series of Grow Beds for vegetable production
Aquaponics is suitable for ornamental fish, Barramundi, Bass, Jade Perch, Golden Perch, Silver Perch, Murray Cod. In Australia we are blessed with a wide choice of Native Fish Species (some listed above) that are perfectly suitable for Aquaponics and are wonderful eating as well.
What is amazing in Aquaponics, once the system is initialised, the water stays Ph balanced and remains crystal clear.
The water is basically recycled, with a small amount of water added weekly to compensate for what is lost by evaporation, and transpiration by the vegetables. Therefore Aquaponics uses only about 10% of the water required for traditional gardening or fish farming. Aquaponics is the future of home gardening and commercial fresh food production for a dry land like Australia.
Aquaponics is a balanced, self-contained eco system that works!! No chemical are added what so ever. It is totally organic. In fact, chemicals cannot be sprayed or added to the vegetable part of the system, because if that happens, the fish will die. Garden pests are kept to a minimum by housing the system in a green house and eventually a natural balance is achieved.
Earthworms can be raised to feed the fish and the earthworm compost is used in other parts of the garden or perhaps planter box gardens. The worm farm is fed on excess vegetable material from the Aquaponic system.
This "Practical Aquaponics for Everyone" website first activated on July 30th 2006 - New content being added weekly.
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| Aquaponics.NET.au last updated 18th May 2008 |
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