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Reply To: CrosiarCM wrote:Clearly

[quote=CrosiarCM]

Clearly you know more about aquaponics than I, but from what little I know it sounds superior to hydroponics. I have also heard of taking organic compost and placing it in a drum and running your water through it and using the nutrients rich water to feed the grow-bed. Any reason this could not be combined with aquaponics?

- You may get what you want, but will you want what you get?

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Plants take-up the nutrients, either way. The easiest way I know of is to vermi-culture in the grow-beds and use Black Soldier Fly larva to convert human waste to maggots, to feed the fish. The trick is what other processes you use getting there. The converted compostcan also be applied to the grow-beds for the vermiculture.

I'd like to see how a methane digester, followed by aerobic digester. Next, solids would be separated and go through the composting/BSF treatment, then to the aquaponics, myself. Liquids go back into the methane digester, to mix the incoming waste into a usable sludge...

The more the system recycles, the better the efficiency. Todays food becomes food again... Just have to watch that it doesn't get high salt concentrations, killing-off parts of the cycle.

Can it work? Yes, BUT it will be a PITA until the system gets developed and balanced, to work in better harmony. After we buy my parents house, I'll start working toward that system.

Later,

J.L..F.

If you can't swim with the big fish, stick to the reef