Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Hi all,

I'm Dieter, from Antwerp, Belgium.

I found out about Aquaponics when I was browsing through Kickstarter. There was this Home Aquaponics Kit on there which is basically a fish tank with a growing bed above it (if I don't mix up all the terms. Like I said, I'm new) which drew my interest, so I started Googling Aquaponics!

A couple days after I got into all of this, a cousin moved, and dumped his fish tank at our place with a filter and 3 gold fish... (I measured it, and I think it's what is referred to as a 10g tank... it's 49x30x24 cm)

So now I want to figure out how I can get started and grow plants!

What I think would be easiest is if I just put some type of level above tank (I guess this is the growbed?) on which I can put a couple of individual growth pods through which I constantly push water?
Something that would look like this: http://www.thegoldfishgarden.com/produc ... ix-system/

Or is it better to instead of having those growth pods to fill the growbed with clay pebbles and just put the plants straight into that?


Dieter

Hallo Dieter ,

It looks like AP is starting to get popular in Belgium! There is even a brand new Belgium forum; http://www.aquaponic.be/

Enjoy your new addiction, and start sourcing hardware because... you will most probably want to expand before the first system is cycled

Yeah, I read about that forum, but it's not active... And there seems to be a so much knowledge here that I will just post here