Gravity Feed Constant Flow Aquaponic System

Home scale gravity feed constant flow aquaponic unit set up in a front yard in Ocean Beach, California. The tank is a 750 liter re-purposed food grade cart dug 16 inches into the ground then covered with bricks for aesthetics. The water is pumped up into a set of 8ft x 4inch PVC tubes with 3inch wholes cut every 10 inches for the vegetables to grow out of. The tubes were painted brown for aesthetics. The bottom tube drains into grow bed made out of a food grade cement mixer container filled with river pebble. This bed drains into a similar style bed below that is slightly larger, but with no grow medium. The plants are growing directly in the water with tadpoles. This bed then drains directly back into the tank that is filled with over 20 tiliapia of different stages of growth.

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• wildlife
• outdoors
• garderning
• wilderness
• aquaculture
• aquaponics

[brendahodgins]

yay, no bell siphon! I think... Sure worth a try... You could always have a filter added to the system somewhere along the way to get rid of the ammonia. Have you tested your water yet?

[UrbanFishFarmer]

@brendahodgins I did add a couple of belly siphons a few months ago, and this system has worked out just fine. Water tests are good, veggies and fish are great!

[UrbanFishFarmer]

This system has been up and running for about 60 days. I have added an extra grow bed since this video with the hydroton medium to balance out the system a little better as the fish grew. So far everything is balancing out well.

[ujusmine]

I started my aquaponic system 14.2.12 but my plants are not so nice. The first week

The plants very beautiful BUT now some die,

Some like stop growing and little yellow .

Any advise. Tq.

[KirstenLeahy]

I want to build a gravity feed system that pumps its own water no electricity using a water wheel that collects the water and transferes it back to the fish tank....Nice job congrats

[13ou812]

thank you for your post i was thinking about something like this

[brendahodgins]

@UrbanFishFarmer Thank you for responding... I thought there should be a way to use gravity. still the tiered levels are good, and I bet you could get quite a bit of growing space from one little pond. Way to grow! xoxo

[Sbhabhi]

NIce..

[Hawk193]

How long have you had this system set up? Are there enough plants to filter the waste water produced by the fish?

I'm new to aquiponics and looking to learn all that I can before possibly starting my own system some day.

[dfcollaborative]

very cool and simple aquaponic system!