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Aquaponics: Tips to Selling your Produce at Farmers Markets
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  • Commercial Systems
Oct02

Aquaponics: Tips to ...

posted by Ecofilms

Although many people get into aquaponics for the fun of growing fish and plants together, they soon realize the potential that aquaponics  could offer them. “Going Commercial” is the hot topic on Aquaponics Forums as people consider the possibility of selling their surplus produce...

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Attending the 2011 Aquaponics Conference
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Sep25

Attending the 2011 A...

posted by Ecofilms

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...

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DIY High Protein Fish Food from Algae
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  • Fish Food
Sep07

DIY High Protein Fis...

posted by Ecofilms

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....

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Plants that go crazy in Aquaponics
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  • Plant Growth
Aug29

Plants that go crazy...

posted by Ecofilms

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...

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Aquaponics: Root-bound Tomatoes
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  • Plant Growth
Aug20

Aquaponics: Root-bou...

posted by Ecofilms

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...

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Aquaponics Conference in Florida
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Aug18

Aquaponics Conferenc...

posted by Ecofilms

Crikey! He’s larger than life and into growing fish and vegetables – together! Now he’s jetting off overseas! Australia’s Aquaponics Guru Murray Hallam will be winging his way over to Orlando Florida in September as a special guest speaker at the Aquaponics Association Conference to be held...

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Aquaponics: When Growbeds Get Old – Sh*t Happens
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  • Chemistry
Jul01

Aquaponics: When Gro...

posted by Ecofilms

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...

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Aquaponics: CHOP 2 it 18 Months Later!
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  • System Designs
Jun30

Aquaponics: CHOP 2 i...

posted by Ecofilms

How quickly does time fly? Since building and testing his innovative toteponics system based on CHOP2 technology we caught up with Aquaponics guru Murray Hallam to ask how its all been going? Murray immediately lights up with his usual enthusiasm, “Can you believe it – its 18...

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Aquaponics: Getting your plants to Thrive!
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  • Plant Growth
Jun26

Aquaponics: Getting ...

posted by Ecofilms

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...

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Aquaponics and Goldfish Pond Systems
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May10

Aquaponics and Goldf...

posted by Ecofilms

Recently in Sydney we met Charles Bacon from Ecolicious who builds Aquaponics systems that are cleverly disguised to look like natural ponds. A pond builder for many years, Charles likes to use as many easy to find components as possible. Some of his designs are quite clever too. The...

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Pond Aquaponics
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Apr26

Pond Aquaponics

posted by Ecofilms

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...

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Converting a Swimming Pool to Grow Fish
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Apr25

Converting a Swimmin...

posted by Ecofilms

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...

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