Home Aquaponics Gives You Healthy Food.

by Anealka on March 12, 2012

ha4 Home Aquaponics Gives You Healthy Food.Home aquaponics can give us the best organics vegetables and fish. In today’s unhealthy environment, getting quality food and products are not as easy as it was the past. Even to have a healthy diet, it may cause us a fortune. And normally, cheap food and products are of low quality. However with the introduction of home aquaponics, we can now get healthy food and save money at the same time.

Home aquaponics come from your own farm in your own home. Home aquaponics is almost similar to hydroponics but it is even better. It combines both agriculture (hydroponics gardening) and aquaculture (fish farming).

The concept of aquaponics is very simple. You raise fish in a designed tank. The water in the fish tank will feed your fruits and vegetables. And your fish will swim in fresh water that has been cleared by the roots of the plants. Later, the water in the tank will have enough nutrients from the fish waste to feed the plants. No pesticides or fertilizers needed, allowing you to have healthy diet from the vegetables and fish you grow on your own. This is the beauty of having a home aquaponics in your own home.

Home aquaponics is a fun and easy project. You can also have it on a bigger scale. Here is a link that can help you start your own home aquaponics system right away.

After everything has been set up, you can watch you plants grow. At the same time, your fish will also have enough nutrients to feed on. The person who will benefit most from this symbiosis is definitely you, of course! You get to have a healthy diet by just growing plants and raise fish in your own home. The plants and fish are definitely organic because no chemicals or pesticides are used in the home aquaponics system. There will be no harmful chemicals and pesticides to ruin your diet.

Soon, you do not have to spend so much at the market anymore. Setting up your own home aquaponics system saves you a lot of money. You can get healthy vegetables at low cost as home aquaponics system requires minimal effort and investment. It is also easy to set up and even easier to care for. The system is relaxing and enjoyable. At the end, you get to eat your own healthy plants and fish at a low cost and be healthy at the same time.

So, why wait? Start your own home aquaponics system now and make yourself proud.

Click HERE to read John Fay’s Aquaponics4You, the guide to home aquaponics.

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Aquaponics Farming The Easy Way

by Anealka on March 11, 2012

fish 1 Aquaponics Farming The Easy Way

Aquaponics system is much easier than planting seeds in the ground. You just have to put them on a netting pot and … this is it! Then you just have to wait for them to start vegetating and grow. However, there is one little aspect you must know before placing the seeds and that is – the ideal moment when the seeds should be planted.

Many people purchase the fish, place them in the tank and in the same day they also place the seeds in the pots. This is by far the worst way of approaching aquaponics as the seeds, even though will grow and develop up to a certain point, they will die in a matter of days after they finish their own supplies if there are no nutrients in the water on which they can feed.

Click HERE to read John Fay’s Aquaponics4You, the guide to home aquaponics

Thus, the perfect moment to place the seeds in the pots is when the fish excrements have turned into nutrients. The process through which you can obtain nutrients for your plants is quite simple. After you place the fish into the tanks, they will start freeing excrements into the water. Because the excrements contain ammonia, they are highly toxic for the fish. However, do not worry about that, as this issue is solved by nature itself. There are bacteria which transform the ammonia into nitrites and then into nitrates. In order for your plants to grow you need nitrates, so once the process of decomposing and transforming ammonia is over, the water will be ready to support the plant seeds.

The entire process can take up to 3 months, time in which you should not place any type of seeds in the pots as they will certainly die. There are also ways to speed up the process by inserting nitrates into the water before the fish excrements can transform. However, many people do not like to interfere in nature’s way. However, no matter what way you choose, it is recommended to monitor the amount of ammonia, nitrites and nitrates from the water, so that you can always know the quality of your water for both your fish and your vegetables.

Planting the seeds at the right time is essential if you want good crops and healthy fish, so monitor the quality of your water permanently, before and after planting. It is the only way through which you can obtain good crops.

Click HERE to read John Fay’s Aquaponics4You, the guide to home aquaponics

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