So a few months ago I happened to stumble upon the concept of aquaponics and since then I have become addicted to this forum. Seems to happen to a lot of people here
Towards the end of June, I found out that my mother and younger brother had decided to fill up the outdoor concrete pond at their house. In a matter of days, the pond was full of mosquito larvae, so they proceeded to buy around 200 'rosie red' feeder fish to eat the larvae as well as several comet gold fish and four or five koi. Neither my mother or brother took the time to stabilize the water, they just assumed that you could put in the fish and everything would be ok. After several dead fish, my mom was about to spend some serious money on a biofilter when I told her about aquaponics. I then came up for the weekend and proceeded to build a crude biofilter and floating raft for the pond, as well as an air compressor with two outlets; one air stone in the biofilter, one under the floating grow bed.
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In the middle are a few zucchini plants; on either side are cucumbers. We also planted celery, basil, cherry peppers, tomatoes, and some strawberries.
Here is the growth after a few weeks
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