Benefits Of DIY Aquaponics

Aquaponics is an efficient and fun way for anybody to start growing plants and keeping pet fish. Now you might be wondering what the connection between plants and fish is. Well basically fish waste or excrement provides plants with everything they need to grow. Aquaponics is a type of Hydroponics which is basically plants growing directly from water instead of being planted in the ground. The water that the plants are grown in is full with all the nutrients that they need to grow effectively.

The nutrients within that water come from fish. If you have ever owned fish before you will know how dirty their water becomes after a week or so if there is no pump. Now fish do not like swimming in their own waste and with a DIY aquaponics system you can solve both problems. An aquaponics system will pump the dirty fish water which is full of nutrients up to the plants. Then the plants roots will cleanse the water before it is returned to the fish tank.

So you will have a lot of happy fish and your plants will grow much faster. It's a no brainer really. And DIY aquaponics systems are not that hard to make. But you must make sure you do it correctly otherwise the time and cost of maintaining the system will not be right. DIY aquaponics systems that are made correctly take next to no time to maintain and cost very little energy to run.

So now I would like to just point out all the benefits of DIY aquaponics then I will point you in the right direction to get started. The main benefit to having a DIY aquaponics system is that you will be able to grow a lot of plants in a small area. If you grow your own food like tomatoes for example then you will be able to grow a load of very tasty tomatoes in a smaller area than you are most likely using now. That leads on to another benefit that I wanted to mention, and that is the taste of any vegetables that you grow from aquaponics. I can assure you that organic food grown from aquaponics tastes much better than veggies that you grow in soil or get from a store.

So we know that some of the benefits of DIY aquaponics are faster growing plants and tasty organic food, but what else is there?

• The aquaponics system circulates cleaning itself as it goes which means very little cleaning and maintenance is required.
• It costs very little to get into and the energy required to run an aquaponics system is very little so you will have small gardening expenses.
• No soil means no weeding. Once again you will not have to waste time and energy weeding.
• No need to water your plants or clean out your fish tanks. The aquaponics system takes care of this so you do not have to.
• It's very easy to get into and get started with creating a DIY aquaponics system. Very little technical knowledge is needed.

Aquaponics is a joyful and great way to grow your plants or organic foods. You will also have the pleasure of knowing that you have some very happy fish.

If you are looking to get started in aquaponics then please visit DIY Aquaponics Plans for more information on building your own aquaponics system.