I've seen gardens like this during river trips. The owners said they pulled the plants out of the water periodically, but I don't know exactly how they kept the roots moist
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I've seen gardens like this during river trips. The owners said they pulled the plants out of the water periodically, but I don't know exactly how they kept the roots moist
A raft style hydroponics set-up would work fine in an aquarium as long as you don't plan on keeping the lights bright for aquatic plants. Otherwise what about bubble wrap floats? They are clear and float... I may try this now that I just thought it up haha
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Time for an expeeerimennnt!
Imagine this being said very flamboyantly, because that's how I felt it when I typed it.
I imagine you to be pretty flamboyant, Glabe LOL
I am going to try it... Why not, right?
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I love this. I was going to do something similar in my cubicle but the noise level was unnacceptable for a quiet office environment.
I just have a couple of suggestions.
1) Look into and consider a constant flood system. This will allow you to keep your tank full so the aquarium water level doesn't fluctuate so much. You would think that plants wouldn't do so well but in my research I found a long forum thread where someone did an experiment with 3 different aquaponics systems and the constant flood did slightly better than the flood and drain, which was surprising to me.
Aparently the water is so oxygen rich that the roots don't need to "breath." Anyways, you might want to look into it your self.
2) Cover your tank. You have to add a glass of water everyday? That's a lot of evaporation, and seeing that your tank has a larger surface area than the grow bed, I think you could cut down a LOT of evaporation by covering the tank.
I also had a question. What are you using for the media in the grow bed? Is that the expanded clay balls? Regardless of what it is, how heavy is it?
I may turn my 150 gallon into an aquaponics in the future, but once concern I have is keeping the weight of the growbed to a minimum. Regular pee gravel just seems way to heavy to me.
I just have a couple of suggestions.
1) Look into and consider a constant flood system. This will allow you to keep your tank full so the aquarium water level doesn't fluctuate so much. You would think that plants wouldn't do so well but in my research I found a long forum thread where someone did an experiment with 3 different aquaponics systems and the constant flood did slightly better than the flood and drain, which was surprising to me.
Aparently the water is so oxygen rich that the roots don't need to "breath." Anyways, you might want to look into it your self.
2) Cover your tank. You have to add a glass of water everyday? That's a lot of evaporation, and seeing that your tank has a larger surface area than the grow bed, I think you could cut down a LOT of evaporation by covering the tank.
I also had a question. What are you using for the media in the grow bed? Is that the expanded clay balls? Regardless of what it is, how heavy is it?
I may turn my 150 gallon into an aquaponics in the future, but once concern I have is keeping the weight of the growbed to a minimum. Regular pee gravel just seems way to heavy to me.
