Hey everyone. Welcome back to the show. Today we're mixing it up a little bit. We're going to talk about aquaponics. I haven't talked about this too much on the podcast because it's probably the growing method I have the least experience with. However, it is becoming more and more popular.

It's certainly huge in places like Australia, which have quite a drought type of condition most of the time, and Aquaponics solves a lot of the

problems with water use because it grows plants and fish in a symbiotic

relationship and you know can just make absolutely wonderful use of the inputs that you put into the

garden. So we're going to talk about fish that can work well and plants that can work well in an aquaponic

system. So fish-wise, the most popular fish you're ever

going to see for aquaponics is going to be tilapia. It's a lopoeia, it's one of the most popular farmed fish in the world as well and that's

probably because it's so tolerant of many different types of water conditions. It can grow in relatively poor water I would say and

also has a really high ratio of conversion of the food that it eats into protein, its own weight in protein.

So Tylapia is going to be a fantastic fish for Aquaponics,

although I'm going to run through a few.

You can use Koy or a fancy goldfish. You can use

ornamental fish like guppies or tetras which are those fighting fish that you

would see it like a pet store. Other ones you can use are crappy, sunfish, bluegill, brim,

etc. Now there are some other ones that you would use. Some people will use Bar mundi that's really popular down in Australia

it's actually a really delicious fish to eat as fish and chips as well just in

case you are down there and you're looking for a snack but let's go ahead and talk about what you

guys are probably more interested in, which would be the plants.

So first and foremost, any plant that's going to do well in a hydroponic system is

probably going to do well in an aquaponic system as well and that's because

although the mechanism of getting nutrients into the water is different between

hydroponics and aquaponics, the way that the plant itself grows is very

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