It sounds strange and super scientific, but really, aquaponics is relatively simple. The first thing you have to do is break the word down. It’s the combination of aquaculture and hydroponics.
aquaculture + hydroponics = aquaponics
Aquaculture is essentially raising fish and hydoponics is essentially growing plants without soil. Aquaponics is both of these things brought together. Both aquaculture and hydroponics have their own negatives, but combing the two in aquaponics eliminates their negatives.
Aquaponics is a continuous cycle, and its main components are a fish tank and a grow bed filled with some kind of gravel and plants growing in it. There are many different ways to construct this system, but you just need to have a way for the water to circulate through the grow bed into the fish tank and then back into the grow bed. No matter what way you…
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