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<h1>Aquaponics @ Home</h1>
<h2>Why?</h2>
<p>For an number of years now I keep reading articles about how our neighbors have been growing part of their food in their backyard, and about how wonderful it is. The problem for me, and I suspect many others out there, is that I appear to have a black thumb when ever I have managed to find enough time to attempt this myself. Everything I have stuck in the ground, including most of my grass, has turned brown and died, never to return. There always seemed to be too much or too little water, or soil with the wrong balance or makeup. And then the weeds would appear and I would spend all my free time bent over digging them up.
<p>Then I started fiddling around with Aquaponics as a way to stop using so much water in my attempts at keeping my plants green. Interestingly enough I had near instant success at keeping my plants green, and I found that pulling weeds was extremely easy on the rare occation I had to do it at all. It has taken me quite a while to achive the water savings I was after since I kept changing designs and dealing with leaks and overflows as I learned. As my aquaponic systems stabilized I did start to see large percentage (>50% depending on how much water was exposed to evaporation) savings of water, which makes sense because an aquaponic system recirculates the water indefinately. I no longer need to worry about soil composition since there is no soil, and the plants derrive nearly all their nutrients from the fish waste.
<p>While I did have a lot of problems at first with aquaponics, it was never discouraging in the way direct soil growing was. I have now worked out solutions to all but the most minor problems with aquaponic food growing. <em>Aquaponics is now ready for the backyard.</em>
<p>Using aquaponics, the average person could grow a fair percentage of their food (in the double digits). This would take about 15 minutes a day most of the time, and could be done even while working 40-80 hours a week. For the most part an aquaponic system is hands off. The owner just needs to throw some feed to the fish every other day, throw some seed in the grow beds, havest the food as it grows large enough, pull any weeds that manage to self seed in the grow beds (they pull out entirely and easily without tools or muscle), and give a daily visual check for obvious problems. Even the visual check becomes less of a need once the system is well established.
<h2>How?</h2>
<p>Aquaponics is still a big investment in terms of money and time when you first get started. If you are going to do it yourself, I suggest starting small to get a feel for things before planning to fill your backyard with rock beds. I will explain everything you need to know on this site, but it will take actually doing it before a lot of the information becomes second nature.
<h2>System Components and Principles Explained</h2>
<p>There are a lot of components that make up an aquaponic system. In each of the linked articles I go into the details of how each component or principle works, can be built, and should be used.
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<li>Adding Oxygen (Air Lifts, Bubblers, and Fountains)
<li>Pumps & Sumps
<li>Pipes & Plumbing (pipe types, pipe components, laying pipe, how water flows, controlling water)
<li>Fish (Purchasing, Types, Disease, Feed, Breeding)
<li>Seeding methods
<li>Trace elements you must add
<li>Fish Tanks (Types, Plumbing, Protecting Fish, Temperature Management)
<li>Plastics
<li>Siphons
<li>Computer control (index valves, pool valves)
<li>Loss of electricity
<li>Moving beds
<li>Swirl filters
<li>Media based growbeds
<li>Floating beds
<li>Vertical growing
<li>Adding water (off gassing, filtering, temperature, pH)
<li>Dealing with pH
<li>Salt
<li>Greenhouse
<li>Bird netting
<li>Preparing the ground
</ul>
<h2>Example Systems</h2>
<ul>
<li>Basic system in a bucket
<li>A simple two or three container system
<li>Your first system with a sump
<li>An automaticly indexed system
</ul>
<h2>Designing your own system</h2>
<p>If you really want a system that fits your needs and best utilizes your available space, you will need to design your own system to fit the land available. I strongly recommend you build a couple of the example systems first if you intend to design your own system from scratch. You will need a firm understanding of the various problems aquaponics presents and how they are solved because fixing a badly designed system that uses 20 yards of rock is a real nightmare.
<h2>Incorporating estetics into your aquaponic system design</h2>
<p>This is a subject that really requires custom fabrication of plastic grow beds that either fit seamlessly into your existing space, or can be molded into a complete redesign of your land. It is possible to build your fish tanks, grow beds, and sumps such that the infrastructure becomes invisible. With the proper planning, you can create a beautiful backyard lagoon or pond space with plants and food growing all around, along with the soft sounds of moving water.
<h2>Having Petit Teton design your system</h2>
<p>If you would like all the benefits of an aquaponic space, but are not really interested in the work involved in building it, or even maintaining it, you should give us a call: 707.684.4146. We are able to evaluate your situation and design customized aquaponic solutions that fit your needs. Depending on your location, we may even be able to care for the system for you.
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