Aquaponic Gardening Demystified by William Powell

Author:William Powell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
Published: 2014-01-25T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5- Equipment Required for the Aquaponic Garden

An aquaponic garden can be part of the solution to the food problem facing the world today. Creating an aquaponic garden is simple. It just requires a few pieces of equipment and the understanding of how to use them effectively. Unlike regular agriculture, which can lead to excretion collecting in waste water and making it toxic, in an aquaponic garden the waste products are transformed into plant food and the water is re-circulated. But in order to set up the system requires several pieces of equipment. They include a rearing tank, a bio-filter, a hydroponics subsystem, a sump, and a settling basin.

Each piece of equipment plays an essential role in the efficient functioning of the aquaponic garden. No one piece of equipment is more important than any other. The key is to make sure that all of the equipment is working in harmony for the system to work well. When this is done the aquaponic garden will be able to sustain both the animals and plants it's designed to help to grow. If any part of the equipment is faulty the entire system will begin to bog down and both the plants and the animal will suffer.

One of the most important pieces of equipment in the aquaponic garden is the rearing tank. The rearing tank is a specially designed for raising baby fish. Because the tank must be kept clean and the water frequently changed, the rearing tank generally has very little or no substrate. The shape of the rearing tank is very important. In times past most fish farmers used a reticular tank to raise baby fish. However round rearing tanks with sloped floors, a central drain and inlet piping which use centrifugal force and gravity to remain clean has proven to be very effective.

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