Your aquaponics sysem is very impressive. How much time a day, and what tasks must you do daily/weekly to keep it going..It looks as if it might be very labor intensive, and costly for the initial outlay.
Once it is “established” can you leave it unattended to go off for a few days or a week for a short vacation?
You should do an aquaponics thread/journal on FR..or maybe you already have on the weekly gardening thread. Thanx for sharing your impressive photo.
>>Your aquaponics system is very impressive.
Thank you.
>>How much time a day, and what tasks must
>>you do daily/weekly to keep it going..
We feed the goldfish 2 times a day and add a gallon or few of water. Other than that it’s pretty much no maintenance.
>>It looks as if it might be very labor intensive,
>>and costly for the initial outlay.
Doesn’t have to be. You could start out with a bucket for the fish and something like a Rubbermaid storage bin for a grow bed.
We have another system set up that uses a $13 24”x36” cement mixing tray I got at Lowes, a 26 gallon fish aquarium, a $15 pump from EBay... some 25 cent goldfish, and some pvc scraps I made into a bell syphon.
That system is inside the house and is working quite well.
There’s no filter other than the water going through the grow bed and the water is amazingly clean.
I’ve got some kale, strawberry seedlings, pepper plants I salvaged from the garden, and a geranium growing in it.
Again, just feed the fish and keep the water topped off - and essentially no maintenance.
>>Once it is “established” can you leave it unattended
>>to go off for a few days or a week for a short vacation?
With an automatic fish feeder and some sort of mechanism to keep the water level up. I think probably so.
>>Thanx for sharing your impressive photo.
Welcome. Thank You.