Friends, family, fellow human participants of the solution:
My name is Marius and I am happy to have found you guys and girls and what you are doing here.
I am absolutely amazed by the Aquaponics method and I am currently developing my first system for home use.
If this is only going half as well as I think, then everything will be good and I will have found another major puzzle piece to my way of life.
I will try to pose my questions in the relevant sections however I feel it might be important to point out right here that I will be using an indoor system as we don't exactly get a whole lot of sun here in Northern Germany and the weather is just so nasty most of the year.
So, hopefully in a year from now I will be the LED expert in this forum
since this seems to be somewhat of a no-go for all you sunlight spoiled Australians 
We don't have that much sun here, but we do get a lot of fresh water (which I won't need too much of in an AP system)I have already read some interesting things about LED growing lights on here, thanks guys! As well as other good sources, one from Germany that was especially helpful talking about plant growth and the necessary wavelengths of blue and red light spectrum.
Since the energy required to maintain water and air temperatures outside or in a greenhouse will be way higher than the energy required to power a few hundred LEDs for basement grow I will choose the latter route and then in summer think about going outside with a number larger - naturally lit.
I just wanted to say Hi and that I'm very glad you people are alive and kicking! The website is just marvellous, I very much like the condensed information laid out in very easy to navigate sections, great job.
Anyways, be prepared for some very unsettling questions about Fish & veggies over the next couple of months
Much love from Germany
Marius
