If you have decided to set up an aquaponic
system to start growing fish and vegetables for you and your family, there are
some things which you should know.
Apart from the types of fish, the plants which can be grown, the appropriate water conditions, and how to care for it all, you also have to consider where should you place your aquaponic system.
The answer is simple: you can put it
anywhere you like as long as the place has enough light to enable the plants to photosynthesize in order produce the appropriate sugars to help them grow. Low light conditions are not going to make you successful at growing, and if the plants aren't growing healthily then they cannot filter the water efficiently, let alone provide you and your family with food!
One of the major advantages of aquaponics systems is that you can grow indoors or outdoors, you can make them mobile, or just have a small aquaponics system
in your kitchen. You could convert your soil-based greenhouse into an aquaponics greenhouse, or have a system set-up in your garage, even a small unused space on a balcony can become a great growing space.
Your local climate is going to have a big say in how successful your system will be, a hot desert sun isn't necessarily going to be particularly conducive to fish, or plant health, likewise with polar weather conditions. Monitor the weather and adapt accordingly, using shading for example, or heating the fish tank in the winter.
That said, most people live where the weather conditions are not as extreme as those mentioned before, and everything will be fine outside.
Indoors, of course, there are no such extremes, but I wouldn't necessarily stick my plants or fish directly in front of a heat source, or have them exposed to an air conditioning blower blasting them from above. Common sense should prevail.
So, go
for airy places, with moderate temperatures, where the fish can feel good, and the plants can grow and develop properly.
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I Love Aquaponics.
