Aquaponics: Definition

Aquaponics is a natural balanced environment designed and created by men with the purpose of growing food in a sustainable natural manner...

Aquaponics  is a food production system that combines aquaculture; the cultivation of fish and hydroponics; cultivation of plants in water.

This constructed recirculating system creates a symbiotic environment for both species. Aquaponics is a symbiosis; in simple words is the constant interaction of two species; The two species help each other acting as a team, simple as that. 


 In Aquaponics the fish provide  the nutrients for the plants and the plant process the fish waste to clean the water  from the toxic waste that fish create this closed system. 

Aquaponics is not newly discovered  the Aztecs where the first to be known to implement ''Aquaponics'' in their food production they cultivated in floating islands called Chinampas  similar to the floating rafters in  Aquaponics .

The roots act as a filter in  aquaponics

 Environmental friendly aquaponics recirculates the water with one pump creating less impact in our resources making the system sustainable. 

Water evaporates from the system but its replacement takes less percentage than the water used in conventional agriculture.

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