Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

BYAP Folks,

I've been trying to study up a bit on plant nutrition and thought some of the hydroponic
sites might have useful information for aquaponics gardens. I noticed one of the blogs
mentioned an upcoming webinar on "Automatic Dosing for Hydroponic Growers". Sounds
like trying to sell expensive (but cool!) high-tech equipment, but I thought some might
find it useful and so I mention it here. I don't know anything beyond this about Autogrow
Systems nor Bright Agrotech whose blog is where I saw this webinar mentioned....

An Introduction to Automatic Dosing in Hydroponics



Even if I never get so automated where I just remote video into my garden to check on
things, this does look pretty cool!



FYI...

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Sam

This sort of equipment has been around for a very long time in the marine aquarium industry, with dosing pumps and arduino based alert controllers even texting you if what your current water parameters , or when they go wrong. Some are nice toys however when i grew corals and kept reef fish i could not justify the cost, despite individual corals worth a few days wages.
We found having 3 X 2L upside down coke bottles each containing, epsom salts, damp rid and vodka on a drip system and an air hole in the base sufficient to control our magesium, calcium deficiencies and phosphate overloads. If the water parameters are stable i dont see the need for dosing pumps