Goldfish Aquaponics.
Why we chose goldfish as the best fish for our DIY aquaponics system.
Aquaponics refers to a system that combines conventional no aquaculture with Hydroponics. The main source or fertilizer for your hydroponic garden is the fish waste.
We build a DIY aquaponics system inside of our garage on our tiny urban farm. The base of the system is our 75 gallon Rubbermaid stock tank which is our sump tank. Everything is fed out of the sump tank. This includes the fish tank and the nft system and of the hydroponic grow system.
Consideration has to be taken into the type of the best fish for your aquaponics system. People use tilapia, channel catfish, perch, black bass and goldfish in their aquaponics systems. Some states limit the type of fish that you can raise in your aquaponic system so make sure you check your state and local laws. I wanted to start out the system with Tilapia but they are prohibited in my state.
We started our system without cycling it when we ordered and added 40 small channel catfish. All of the channel catfish died within the first week therefore we needed another fish to add to the system. I visited my local aquarium shop in my city and purchased 20 feeder goldfish. I should have taken this step before I ordered the channel catfish so that I could cycle my aquaponics water.
We cycled art aquaponics system for about 2 weeks and then we purchased largemouth bass aquaponics. We lost very few of the largemouth bass within the first week so we ordered another 16 largemouth bass for aquaponics system. Are aquaponics fish tank now has goldfish and largemouth bass.
Largemouth Bass Aquaponics fingerlings ate several of the small aquaponic goldfish