Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Hi all,
You all have a great forum (wow, lots of info ) and I have enjoyed reading how aquaponics works. Imagine just a few weeks ago I was wondering if it was safe to water garden vegetables with my pond water.
My general interest has been organic gardening, ornamental pond came later, now I'm thinking organic fish. It just all snowballs doesn't it?
So now, I am interested in utilizing my pond/water garden for more than ornamental purposes. I have goldies, frogs and one bluegill in ~1750 gallons in an outdoor, in ground liner pond with a biofilter waterfall. It been going for a year now. My water parameters are 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, 0 nitrates. My ph is really high, 8.5 or so, I've got really hard water, everything is crusty but the fish are healthy. I do have to fight the string algae.
I don't have a greenhouse so the growbeds will be a seasonal enterprise. Bluegill grow up here and I think I will be overwintering a few young ones each winter and then harvesting them the following summer keeping the offspring for the next summer. Does that sound like a good plan?

Here's a picture of the setup.


I'm looking forward to learning here, you guys sound like a great crowd.
RexAnne

Hi RexAnne
Very nice pond you have there and plenty of room for growbeds !
Welcome and good luck !

hello RexAnne, welcome to us

That pond looks lovely, you should do well out of it.

Love the pond, and the garden in gerenal, an AP system will look super smart in the picture

Great pond Rexanne... jump into AP and enjoy...