I had a fully planted 55 gallon aquarium that suffered one of those periodic mishaps of aquarium life and since I have to start over, I thought it would be fun to convert it into an aquaponic setup and wanted to run my ideas past the community for critique and commentary.
Setup would be simple: aquarium, growbed with media above ot, bell siphon. grow lights. There would be air stones in the tank and I had a CO2 bubbler for giving the tank plants extra C. Any drawbacks to including that in an aquaponics build?
I’ve got a 300 GPH canister filter – it won’t have any problem pumping up to a grow bed above the tank, so any reason not to reuse it? Use the growth media in it for microbe propagation, and since solid filtration is still needed, keep using it as a filter? Or would the filter screens take out too much?
With a growbed appropriately sized to fit above a 48″ 14″ wide tank, it sounds like ~8-10 standard goldfish will be a good number. Does that sound outre to anyone?
Any thoughts or comments will be appreciated. Thanks all! submitted by /u/Saganocchi
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