Our aquaponics system is now approaching its fourth year since we installed it here at Ecofilms and over the years a multitude of vegetables and fish have gone through it. Countless tomatoes, cucumbers, herbs, lettuce and fish have been grown from seed and fingerling, right out to maturity to...

The New Zealand Government have got behind a $250,000 aid project and have built a trial aquaponics system on the Cook island of Rarotonga , located in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean. Many of the Islanders have limited access to fresh water and lacked suitable soil for producing food. ...

Recently a friend was telling me about how difficult it was to grown strawberries in his aquaponics system. He didn’t have any success in growing them and was wondering if he was doing something wrong or indeed, if this aquaponics thing was over-hyped? He didn’t have a green thumb...

  Radial Flow Settlers are a type of filter that removes all the gunk and fish poop that occurs in a recirculated aquaponics system. Handy if you have overstocked your fish tank or over-fed the fish as the water quality suddenly gets murky and is less than pristine.   How does it...

From the land that can miniaturize everything, Japan is on its way to revolutionize the way people grow food in small apartments. This miniaturized aquaponics system could double as a home aquarium system that also grows a few lettuce heads in its circular floating raft system. All powered by...

A year after Murray Hallam revealed the plans to build your own aquaponics system in his popular DIY Aquaponics DVD, the photos from aquaponics enthusiasts are now flooding in. Built from easy to get tote tanks (IBC or International Bulk Containers) people all around the world have taken out...

CEREs in Melbourne Australia are looking for a super motivated and entrepreneurial urban farmer to run their small commercial Aquaponic Food Hub system as part of their Food Hub urban farming research project. Do you have what it takes to run a small hi-tec urban farm as a professional farmer...

Australian Television gardening guru Peter Cundall was well into his eighties when he was once asked why he looked so fit and healthy? His answer was, “The last time I went to a doctor because I was sick was in 1951.” “The reason why I’m so healthy is because I...

Is it a brewery or a tea shop or an aquaponics system or even a bit of a mixture of Permaculture design? It’s so crazy, it might just work? Wouldn’t it be great to have an aquaponics system running like a perpetual motion machine where you just add a few fish and some plants and...

There’s nothing finer than to grow your own fish in your own backyard – except perhaps catching them and eating them! Sometime ago we decided to grow a few Barramundi in our aquaponics system. We were told that they were a specialized fish and unsuitable to grow-out for the...

Keeping an aquaponics system in the backyard is a lot of fun but do keep a careful eye on the trees and shrubs your have growing around your system as they could be toxic. Most plants are safe and toxic free but some species of flowering plants can be dangerous once the breeze catches them...

Recently Ecofilms Jane Gapinski  caught up with biologist and aquaponics consultant Dr Wilson Lennard who was running a little experimental commercial aquaponics system located at CERES a community farm and education center located in Melbourne, Australia. This community aquaponics system was...