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Whether you are growing ornamental plants or plants that produce food, you can greatly enhance your indoor plant growing by letting fish do much of the work. Believe it or not, fish make great assistants when it comes to growing plants. And they work cheap, only requiring clean water and fish food.

The location of where you build your build aquaponics system system is very important. The temperature must not be too high or too low in order for your plants and fish to grow and thrive. The lighting must be optimum as well. You also need to protect your garden from factors such as chemicals from surrounding areas. Harmful substances can kill both your fish and plants.

The way the cycle works is simple, the fish produce waste which is sent through a filter to remove lumps but retain the nutrition. This clean but nutritious water is then pumped through the grow beds giving your plants all the food they need before aquaponics returning to the tank to start the cycle over again.

Your choice of the aquaponics tank shape is important because you will then secure a growing bed that would fit the shape. Oftentimes, build aquaponics system system experts would recommend the poly rectangular tank since it is cheaper. Basically, it is a wise choice if you will have one. Moreover, the shape will give an enormous impact on the water quality of the system. In round shaped tanks, a circular flow of water will be seen thus the solid particles in the water will easily settle in the middle. Cleaning will be easy then. If you have a round cone bottom tank, it has also an advantage. The bottom part will meet at a certain point. Then, solids will easily settle on the bottom part of the cone so dirt can be easily drained.

With conventional and organic gardening, the method is to work hard to till and condition the soil, plant your crops in the ground, and then regularly dump massive amounts of water and fertilizer into the ground. Much of the water ends up evaporating, while the majority of the rest, along with most of the nutrients, soaks into the ground and is lost. It’s only a small amount that is actually used by the plants, many of which may be weeds.

Vegetables are essential for a good nutrition, yet you can not always find fresh, organic veggies in the market. With an aquaponic garden in your house you will have fish and veggies for your family without depending on the market. Also, you will save some money without investing too much of your precious time.

As you choose to make a bigger system, scale it up and ask questions from our community of experts. I will share my experiences as we build our Aquaponics system here in Colorado.