You won’t believe how fast plants grow in aquaponics until you see it for yourself.
The first of 3 AP systems at the Lowlands Community Garden is now fully operational and doing great.
It consists of 3 x 1000 gallon tanks linked with syphons with 1100 tilapia fingerlings in the nursery tank. There are 6 media beds: 4 x flood and drain with vulcanized rock media (72 cubic ft), 1 x wicking in netpots with coconut coir (18 cubic ft) and 1 x flood and drain with netpots and coconut coir (18 cubic ft) in addition to 288ft of troughs with 552 plants in 1″ plugs, 140ft of 3″ pipes with 168 plants in wicking bags and 168ft of 3″ troughs for the baby leaf greens.
In total we have more than 1,250 plants plus the baby leaf greens.
Systems 2 and 3 will be complete by the end of the month, ready to take all those fish as they grow and ready to take another 2,500 plants!
The system is of our own design but based on those used at Growing Power.
This is so much fun.
Lowlands Community Garden 
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