Our Aquaponics System
Our class is making an aquaponics system. An aquaponics system is a food production system that combines conventional aquaculture (raising water animals such as fish, snails, etc.) in tanks, with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water). Basically, the fish waste fertilizes the plants and the plants clean out the water for the fish. It's in the corner of our room!
Right now it is in pieces. The fish are staying in a bucket with a pump. A dad from our school has an aquaponics in his yard. He is going to make a few changes on the system before we put it together. One thing he wants to do is change the pipes from flexible tubing to hard plastic tubing.
We hope to grow kale, lettuce, and maybe peppers in our aquaponics. We also hope to feed our guinea pigs, Charlie and Lola, with the vegetables.
2 comments:
Cool stuff! Systems like this can be used to filter water too!
That sounds like a great idea!
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