Recently we were talking to someone who wishes to remain anonymous who say they invested more than $250,000 in their commercial aquaponics business and it wasn’t working to plan. Sure they grew plants. The fish grew fine. They had 1,000 Jade perch in their tanks that were coming up for...

Have you ever got up in the morning, went to inspect your aquaponics system and discovered something has been nibbling at your seedlings? A comment by Catryna today inspired this post. “My main interest in Aquaponics is that our family lives in the rurals of San Diego county,...

Recently a US dirt gardener decided to plant the most profitable plants per square foot of space and document their profitability on a chart. The chart was quite extensive but the top seven plants that were the best money spinners per square foot stopped us in our tracks. His conclusions made...

Ask most people why they got into Aquaponics and they’ll tell you that its about “food security” or eating “healthy food” or to maintain an interest in an “unusual hobby” and these are all valid points but the real answer when you dig a little deeper...

We all have our favorites. Plants that defy normal growth and even gravity and just take off like a rocket in an aquaponics system.  They crowd out other plants and just keep refusing to stop growing. They either take off up into the heavens or spill over the sides and tumble onto the ground...

We’ve had a terrific season of growing tomatoes for the last eight or nine months and right through into the Queensland winter. The one vine we had just kept producing massive amount of tomatoes month after month. I must admit being a bit cautious about what the flavour of an...

Over the last three months we’ve been trialling a little additive called potassium hydroxide with the regular stuff we’ve been putting into our aquaponics system and – boy has the plant growth taken off! For the most part, feeding your fish just pellets is fine but we always...

If you decide to get into Aquaponics, sooner or later you are going to realize that your grow beds that you originally thought were too big to go into that tiny confined courtyard space have now made a liar of you. The plants are taking over the place and you are slowly running out of...

Getting lush green growth from your Aquaponics system should be easy. In most home systems it is,  but how do you know that your plants are getting all the nutrients they need from the things you add into your aquaponics system? The plants may look okay but how can you tell for sure that they...

Dr Wilson Lennard is an Australian scientist with a PhD in Applied Biology. He has studied and installed commercial aquaponics systems around the world. In this extended interview, part two, he turns his attention to back-yard tinkerers in Aquaponics. If you have added Seasol or Maxicrop...

Recently while filming in Murray Hallam’s Aquaponics greenhouse we noticed a few odd plants that were growing in the corner of his grow bed. While most people use Aquaponics to grow fresh vegetables like lettuce and tomatoes in their systems, Murray likes to experiment a fair bit and...

One of the fun plants to grow in Aquaponics is strawberries. We all know how great they taste especially if picked fresh and juicy from your own system. They grow very well in conventional gravel grow beds provided your system is reasonably free of salt because strawberries just don’t...