I first wrote about Fishless Cycling for aquaponics systems in November, 2010 based on research I had done in cichlid raising, and since then it has become a generally accepted way to start up an aquaponics system.  However, over the past year and a half we have improved the technique.   I’d like to share our [...]

Anyone who has been married as long as Alan and I have (twenty one years in September) can probably relate to how downright freaky the synchronicity of your thoughts and words can be.  It ends up that Alan and I have both independently described in exactly the same way our thoughts about what today’s announcement [...]

A few weeks ago the high temperature here in Colorado dipped into the 40′s and there was snow on the nearby mountains.  It was time to harvest the tilapia in our outdoor aquaponics system.  We decided to film the experience from catching the fish to “dispatching” them to gutting and filleting.  Yes, actual tilapia were [...]

This past Friday Joanne (a fabulous lady who works part time on projects with us) and I spent an hour and a half picking through 75 liters of Hydroton that was in the last of the AquaBundance grow beds on our deck.  This was the second grow bed from our two-bed AquaBundance system development project [...]

Since last week’s blog post about the Aquaponics Association was rather long and heavy (you are probably saying “wow…that is an understatement!) I decided to flip over to the other side of the spectrum and be short, light, and visual. This summer we have been working on the development and testing of a second grow [...]