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 thing most people don’t take into account when running an aquaponics system is – power failure. It often strikes when people least expect it. Many experienced aquaponics people will tell you the following tale. Their system was running perfectly for over a year. The fish were...

Yesterday we had a visit from our good friend Wolfgang Seemann, who happens to also be an electrical engineer and computer systems builder. Wolfgang had seen our Aquaponics system before and had been thinking independently of a way to automate the whole process a lot more efficiently. His...

One of the questions some people ask is “Does Aquaponics really work over the long term?” Other people have concerns about adding all sorts of complicated filtration mechanisms to keep the fish water clean and pure. Some of these concerns are legitimate in a commercial aquaponics...

You gotta hand it to Murray Hallam. He’s always tinkering with his aquaponics systems and trying out different approaches on how to improve the plumbing. While we were filming him over a year ago for the “Aquaponics” The First 12 Months” DVD we caught Murray on camera...

For a long time Floating Raft Aquaponics was shrouded in mystery as many people tried to penetrate its “inner secrets” of what it all meant. Terms like Swirl Filters and Particulate Filters were bandied around and it all looked terribly difficult to understand to the casual...

One of the great things about Aquaponics is how you can use recyclable materials to make an inexpensive system for your backyard. Murray Hallam built a very cheap system using two old bathtubs stacked on top of each other. Here in Australia you can purchase a used bathtub from the rubbish tip...

We had a number of requests to show how a simple Flood and Drain or Ebb and Flow Aquaponics System works. This animation we created is based on our own Aquaponics setup we use here at Eco Films. It’s a terrific design that has consistently performed well and never failed us in constant...

We created this flash animation that was used in Murray’s DVDs and are sharing this knowledge here and explain some of the secrets behind the auto-siphon and why flood and drain is the way to go for the backyard hobbyist.