Aquaponics Without Chickens

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From what I can determine, for health sake, some people combine raising chickens with their aquaponics. This is not a good practice because of the very undesirable pathogens found in chicken and other animal manure. I personally will not use it. Again I urge you to study the following information found at http://www.rainbowfish.se/mailgroup/f80.htm . Sure this has been a practice in the Far East for thousands of years, but look at the history of disease and pandemics that have originated from that part of the world. The buck will stop at home. With proper practices in aquaponics culture it will remain ever important not to use animal waste in any form for raising flies or direct feeding your fish from such manure products. This will keep coming up from time to time because old practices and habits die a hard slow death. However it is extremely important to the quality of food to determine that you will be organic in your personal development of your system.

When building your aquaponics system keep in mind that you will eventually want to become certified organic, and I’m sure that improper use of animal waste will not be tolerated. As far as raising chickens that is fine, just don’t try to loop it into your aquaponics system. This is an area that will require scientific study and analysis of proper procedures in order to ever combine it into your aquaponics systems. In the years to come science may find a way to do this successfully, without the undesirable pathogens.

There is an aquaponics farm system that has been developed in West Plains, Missouri, and they have a copy of a good overview of their aquaponics system and you might go their web-page and take a look and evaluate it for your own purpose. They have been in business since the early 1990’s. With 15+ years of successful practice of producing top grade organic tilapia and organic fresh fruit and vegetables; you will want to emulate their success. You will read that their system is a simple, reliable, low-cost growing system used to produce a supply of safe, superior quality foods. They integrate hydroponics and aquaculture in a closed system to produce premium tilapia and fresh herbs and vegetables. Although creative, this method of food production is no mere novelty. It is a low-cost, no nonsense system. It is beautiful in its simplicity. You can see a plan of it on their site at http://www.jaggartech.com/snsaqua/page2.htm . Go over this short article and diagram very carefully because it is loaded with a ton of good information. You will need to know all of it. Don’t just read it, study it.

Good luck with your aquaponics system and remember good luck happens with hard work and perseverance. These principles are laws of success.

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky