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Be sure to use food grade plastic containers to store your fish in. Many plastics contain harmful chemicals that leach into the liquid over time. If you are planning to grow organic produce then you have to avoid this at all cost. These chemicals can also cause the fish to die.Aquaponics is a way of growing both fish and vegetables together with very little effort on your part. Once set up, this is a system where the fish and the plants will mostly take care of each other. Your job will be to feed the fish, plant the plants, and check on the system every once in a while. And if feeding the fish is too much, automatic feeders are wonderful things.
If you have ever had a fish aquarium, you probably know that a mechanical filter is required to keep the fish alive and the tank clean. But with an build aquaponics system system, the plants do all of that for you. Instead of a filter cartridge, a grow bed is used to pump water through and the plants roots do the cleaning.
While you are out being busy, the fish will be releasing fish wastes into the water. These wastes are full of the substances that plants need. Bacteria that exist naturally in the water convert these wastes into forms that the plants can absorb from the water as nutrients. With a constant supply of these rich nutrients and all the water they can use, plants grow beautifully. While all this is going on, the plants and the bacteria are constantly at work keeping the water clean for the fish.
This is more or less what we get when we water and fertilize our vegetables in the ground whether we use regular fertilizer, fish heads like my grandfather used to do, or another organic substance like compost. Only with hydroponics, the roots stay in that solution all the time.
aquaponics works similar to hydroponics, but also combines aquaculture (raising fish). Before you start to think raising fish sounds like a job in itself, it really doesn't have to be. Fish are simple creatures to raise, especially in an aquaponics system, and make an excellent companion to plants.
aquaponic gardening
It's obvious both plants and animal have an equal part on this world. Almost every family has some sort of pet but that is only half of what should be done. So I think everybody in the world should learn how to grow. This would mean a lot more oxygen in the world and also more clean and healthy food for everyone growing.
