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Aquaponics Design Course: Is it worth doing?
By the time most people stumble onto a really good course, the show has moved on and access is closed. The Aquaponics Design Course, taught by Australian Aquaponics kit builder and teacher Murray Hallam is such a fine course. Ecofilms shoots and edits Murray’s training videos and we’ve partnered with Murray to bring you the best 8-Week structured aquaponics course on the planet. We actually visit farms all over the world and get the nitty-gritty details and facts that most people are unaware of in successfully managing and...
read moreShould you Do an Aquaponics Design Course?
One of the great things about running an Aquaponics system is how robust and healthy your plants should look. Yet, we’ve seen a number of systems where the plants looks stunted and wilted with that characteristic mottled mineral deficient appearance on the leaves that reveals the plant is actually NOT healthy and is in fact struggling to survive. You’d be amazed how many people do not notice that their plants are in poor condition. Poor Nutrient Deficient plants This is where a good aquaponics design course will come in handy...
read moreTom Kendall’s Farm
Just visiting Tom Kendall’s farm in Kin-Kin, Queensland, Australia. Shot this on Sunday. He’s got great infrastructure, such a wonderful farm. We even got to see a new baby goat being born. Visit Tom Kendall’s website at http://www.permaculturesunshinecoast.org for more information about courses on...
read moreAquaponics: Culling the older fish
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 ultimately grace our dinner plate. In fact we’ve kept some of the older fish, just to see how they would fare. Like an old friend, this 2lb barramundi (pictured) grew accustomed to being fed and would eagerly hang out near the entry to the hatch to...
read moreAquaponics in the Pacific
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. Given that a lot of fresh vegetables are flown in from New Zealand making them very expensive, it seemed aquaponics was the better way to go. The project is housed in a 200 square metre shed at the Titikaveka Growers Association premises, where tilapia...
read moreAquaponics and Sunlight
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 he said, because certain other plants in his system weren’t doing too well either. Closer investigation revealed that the fish were not happy and some had even died. Some of the surviving fish had bacterial infections on their sides and looked...
read moreDIY Strawbale Chicken Coop
Here’s a great idea for a Chicken coop built to fit the dimensions of straw bales. A simple four post construction with a raised floor and tin roof is all you need. Both sides of the chicken coop have a temporary straw-bale walls that keeps the coop warm in winter and cool in summer. Chickens lay their eggs and roost in the center of the coop. In the springtime you replace the straw with fresh material. You don’t need to build any extra timber walls as the straw bales will keep the elements from entering the coop and keep the...
read moreDIY Radial Flow Filter for Aquaponics
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 work? Fish effluent enters the center of the tank vertically and flows down through the stilling well, causing low-density solids to be easily settled out of the water column as they settle at the bottom of the tank. Filtered water overflows a weir at the...
read moreIndoor Aquaponics
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 decorative tropical fish. Its also designed to act as a therapeutic display that is also both functional and attractive. This system consists of a fish tank and a vegetable planter, which are connected by pipes. It utilizes the fish...
read moreAquaponics: Chop2 Systems Take Off!
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 the angle grinder and chalking gun and built their inexpensive systems based along Murray’s CHOP2 method. This easy to build method allows people to build their systems on irregular ground and control the flow of fish nutrients to any bed or fish...
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