written by Ava Limberg

This is an aquaponics system. It was made by me ( Ava Limberg) , Asata Portwood, and Honesty Oliver when we were wanting to make a new system for our final project in our Aquaponics class. We also made this for the kitchen to get fresh herbs every day. We are still working out some problems like leaks in the system and other setbacks like distance learning, plants dying, and outlets in the wall. When it is done, a water pump will take water from the tank and bring it up to the pipes that have plants in them, from there the course of gravity will take place and run it through the pipes, giving the plants water. It will then run through a biofilter (which gives any bacteria a place to live that is not in the water which keeps the plants healthy) and then go back into the tank where it will start all over again. When we do finish, we plan to put baby tilapia in the tank as our fish. We like these fish because they go well with aquaponics systems and they are fish that you can eat and that you will find at some restaurants.

We came up with this idea when someone showed us a picture of something that looks similar to what we have built and we hope that people will find inspiration with this in future aquaponics classes.