My Crude Aquaponics system

My crude backyard aquaponics system I started around May 25th 2009.
I have comet goldfish for my fish culture, and im growing 1 zucchini, 1 marigold, and countless onions + spinach. This was an easy experiment I became interested in and still conducting.
Hopefully it will become a total success and I may try making one with a large pond, who knows.

The idea of aquaponics is hydroponics and fish cultures. So technically the fish your suppose to raise in the pond, you suppose to be able to eat. I have not setup my system like this, but maybe sometime in the future I would consider raising catfish. I am in the PA region so catfish should be a hardy fish to raise for winters.

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[283inc]

please remove onions before they rot

they will kill your fish soaring the ph up to a solid 9 i lost 30 fish over 3 onions that were doing great until water logging and emitting a horrible imbalance onions not so good for aqauponics

[vashapocalypse]

no onions grew, i had two large cucumber and zuccini plants that were successful

[shelladavis]

i like your set but i am worried for you

the plugs look very very um dangerous water and electricty don't mix well

please at least cove the blugs with a plastic box

[AQUAPONICSTEVE]

Same tub, 18 gal. nice maybe try local fresh water fish you can eat? Spread out that water feed maybe. Plants in water are robbing your produce as well maybe.

[wh0izzit]

OMG I love your reservoir LOL. I would do some things differently. Take the plants out of the blue tub for one...make some other kind of shade. Also those plastic tubs don't hold up that well in the sun, you'll have to change it out eventually. I would add a filter pad into the filter, you can buy some cut your own filter pad that doesn't have any carbon in it. This is a cool video though, thanks!

[wh0izzit]

You should probably do a 10% water change once a week. Goldfish don't like rapid water changes.

[SpidermanRun]

those kind of pebbles, are terrible to use for substrate. . . , other than that its all good

[magprob]

I think it's pretty cool.

[Chowy1000]

Nice thanks for posting this video I really want to make one of these things.

[KnowledgeIsPower11]

oh yeaa dont use or give the fish SHIT GMO fake artificial food.. i mean ur trying to grow organic right'??? then why feed them toxic nutritionless chemicals?? keep it simple stupid thats the best thing to do... nice JOB though!!