Aquaponics Update
Over a year ago, while I was still a bachelor living in an apartment, I decided I wanted to have a small garden so I’d have fresh ingredients available for cooking, particularly herbs. After considering a number of conventional ways of growing herbs in an apartment, I ended up reading about Aquaponics. Fascinated, I built a small Aquaponics system and planted some herbs. You can read more about that project here.
One year later, the system has been quite successful. I’ve made some minor changes, such as adding a grow lamp and black light barriers (Gorilla tape) to prevent algae growth, but aside from that I have had to do nothing but add fish food and water. I haven’t even had to clean out the grow bed in over a year of operation.
Here’s how it looked a month ago, after lots of harvesting over the past year:
