Choosing a tank suitable for aquaponics is probably a no brainer. Many people grab the first thing that suits their budget, but not all tanks are the same and some can positively damage your health and kill all your fish. We take a look at choosing the best tanks for your budget with...

Commercial Fish Pellets. How long do they last before they lose their nutritional value? Recently on the Aquaponics forums there was some speculation from people who found they were still using commercial fish pellets that were 18 months old and were still being fed to their fish. Some people...

The Urban Permaculture DVD is finally shipping directly from Geoff Lawton’s website www.permaculture.org.au One of the interesting segments on the DVD deals with a home swimming pool system that was converted to grow over 100 silver perch fingerlings. The owners insisted that they do...

Its a long 16,000 kilometer flight from Brisbane Australia, but we finally made it with Murray Hallam to Orlando Florida to attend the 2011 Aquaponics Association Conference. The three day event organized by Sylvia Bernstein and Gina Cavaliero was originally meant to attract around 100 people...

Growing your own fish food for aquaponics is the holy grail for many folk wishing to be autonomous and not dependent on commercial fish food pellets. Duckweed Growing duckweed in your own tank is one solution during the warmer summer weather. Its not an algae but a very small aquatic plant....

Years ago there was an old expression applied to computer industry surrounding software programming – “Garbage in – Garbage out!” That expression of what goes around, comes around can equally be applied to aquaponics and the biofiltration mechanism that keeps the whole...

For some people, aquaponics should be aesthetically pleasing and resemble a natural ecosystem as much as possible. It should blend in with their landscaping and not be intrusive. Some people don’t like the idea of growing fish in large tanks believing they look too much like a factory...

One of the advantages of doing aquaponics is that it gives you the knowledge of how a natural system works. For Les and Annette Mulder it was only a natural progression to apply their knowledge of fish farming to their 55,000 liter chlorinated swimming pool located in Sydney. Les switched off...

One of the main arguments against Aquaponics has always been that its unsustainable because the fish pellets people use are based on depleting reserves of ocean fish catch. Its a limited supply that is gradually disappearing from our oceans. If Aquaponics can help feed the planet, then where...

Recently while moving some smaller Jade Perch into a larger tank stocked with a few bigger Barramundi, I noticed one of the larger Barramundi swallow the smaller Jade Perch so only the head was sticking out of it’s jaws. The Barramundi wasn’t large enough to eat the smaller fish...

Its no secret that the world is eating more farmed fish than ever before. According to the World Wide Institute nearly half the seafood the world eats today is farmed. On average, each person on the planet is eating four times as much seafood as was consumed in 1950. Experts predict that...

Recently when we were filming Murray Hallam and Milne Matthews talking about their aquaponics systems, the conversation turned to their wicking beds that they both used for growing root crops. Although water is mainly used in conventional dirt gardens, Murray and Milne were also using fish...