Thread: Aquaponics again

what you are up against is fish waste is only about 1/3 of a plants needs and you cant add the other 2/3 to the fish tank as it will possiable kill them , there have been a few people on tv that have come up with some wonderfull setups but they are now scrapheaps
there have been a few people that have tried farming marron etc out side of farm dams and they have failed the biggest cause of thier fail is the hygiene of the fish (marron) etc but the fisherys dept do have some good reading on this
if you are going to go into hydo plants you cant have any thing metal that includes metal in the pump

Hi Richard. Any sources to back that up???

There are plenty of people on the backyard aquaponics site who have setups which work well.

Our own "duckaponics" setup has been working well - apart from some issues with excess sediment from the ducks impeding flow in the system - which is easy to solve. Everything tastes fantastic.

We don't have any metal in our system, but I cannot see what effect it would have???

Originally Posted by isuzurover

Hi Richard. Any sources to back that up???

There are plenty of people on the backyard aquaponics site who have setups which work well.

Including mine. All I add to my system is fish food, some Seasol (couple of capfulls per week) and occasional water top-up.

Mines been going for almost 12 months now, and grows stuff fine. BTW, the herbs and veges also taste fine IMHO. All visitors who have tasted also agree.

Not sure where you're getting your info from richard4u2, but might need to review it.

A quick read of the backyardaquaponics.com forum will show plenty of systems, big and small, that are very successful.

one of the best yabbies to grow and eat is Redclaw (Cherax quadricarinatus) they are fast growing high yeld ratio of meat to body(waste) and are a pretty yabbie to boot