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Step 12Add Living Stuff
You can add fish and plants now.
Commercial Aquaponics systems are sized for a ridiculous amount of fish (Almost 1lb of fish per gallon of water). To do this, they have to optimize their Grow Bed size to ensure that the water is being properly filtered. They usually also use air stones to add oxygen to the water. This extreme system is not necessary, you can get away with a lot less. I'm using a betafish for my system to begin with, I'll add some goldfish in a few weeks. The amount of oxygen added by the Auto Siphon cycling constantly should be enough to oxygenate the water. Add fish to the system slowly, so that you don't upset the Nitrogen Cycle in the tank.
For plants, you can start them in Rockwool, and then transplant them into the Hydroton, or you can try to start the seeds directly in the Hydroton. The rockwool may promote root rot later on, so I'm going to try direct sowing, but I hear it is more difficult.
Commercial Aquaponics systems are sized for a ridiculous amount of fish (Almost 1lb of fish per gallon of water). To do this, they have to optimize their Grow Bed size to ensure that the water is being properly filtered. They usually also use air stones to add oxygen to the water. This extreme system is not necessary, you can get away with a lot less. I'm using a betafish for my system to begin with, I'll add some goldfish in a few weeks. The amount of oxygen added by the Auto Siphon cycling constantly should be enough to oxygenate the water. Add fish to the system slowly, so that you don't upset the Nitrogen Cycle in the tank.
For plants, you can start them in Rockwool, and then transplant them into the Hydroton, or you can try to start the seeds directly in the Hydroton. The rockwool may promote root rot later on, so I'm going to try direct sowing, but I hear it is more difficult.
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