Nice, thank you for the prompt reply. I suspect I should supplement iron will get some from a chemist to ensure purity. Fish products are so annoying, 1 decent product with 3 snake oils added...

No P problem the plants aren't stunted they're ballistic!

[Delta9-THC]

so how would I go about making a bio-filter?
I have a cold water tank with a filter and airstones , am thinking goldies is the best way
I have a heater/thermometer for stabilising the temp in the res for the plants and I still dont quite get how to get the water from the fishtank ready for the plants.
thanks ship
Peace

[Delta9-THC]

can goldfish live in the dark? I also have a waterfarm and was wondering if keeping them in the reservoir of it would work , again I wonder if I would need to adapt the drip feed up pipe with a bio filter or somekind?
and wouldnt the drip keep being blocked by fish waste?

Peace

[Curly]

Thanks for sharing all that info shipperke.

I've been playing with a small aqua setup for about 9 months, just growing herbs and vegies with guppies and rainbowfish in the tanks. Soon we hope to build on a larger scale to provide a steady supply of fish, vegies and buds.

Here's a great resource, but i'll warn ya, there's no buds in there
https://www.backyardaquaponics.com/forum/index.php

[puronerd]

when i grow up i want to be like you hahaha. really though intresting stuff. ill give myself some growing room before DEFINETLY doing that

[robstar420]

I was just wondering if you could just take your tank water and use it ok potted plants in soil

Delta 9 - make an ebb and flow system or continuous flow with Aquaponics. The beds are the bio-filter. You can add worms to the beds too and they'll live in them doing their extra bit for the ecosystem.

Goldfish can live in the dark but it's not so good for them. They will end up blind and very pale, not so healthy...

Goldfish in the reservoir would supplement an organic grow nicely.

robstar - Yes - you can use straight fish water on potted plants - high in nitrate so better for veg than flower but plants still use N in flower.

[robstar420]

thanks for your response bongsong

[PAGreen]

Wow. This is amazingly interesting. It must be extremely hard to control all of the different aspects while essentially creating and maintaining your own ecosystem.

How would you say that aquaponically grown medicine compares to organic aeroponically grown medicine; in regards to smell, taste, and strength?

[BonsaiBud]

My mom asked me why I don't convert my growboxes to aquaponic
Well, as it is, I can pull one plug, shut the closet door, and nobody would have any reason to ask to look inside. It is my bedroom cloest after all. Now, if I had two 1 inch water hoses running from a medium sized fishtank into my closet...
Well, I plan to do an aquaponic something, be it buds or legals. I'd really like to put it in the living room and just have a lock on the stand doors. "My filtration system is very complex and I don't want my drunk friends messing with it when they come here on weekends and get all drunk and are like, 'letz git the fish drunk dude '"

brb, gotta test the water in my community tank.

By the way, I asked some experts about the PH indicator loach. They replied, "If your PH changes so much that your fish changes color, your tank has problems. You shouldn't let it change that much, ever."