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I used to have a 150g planted aquarium and my understanding is that you need the CO2 because, unlike air, it isn't nearly as abundant under water. For hydroponics you should get all the CO2 you need from just the leaves I believe...

You can feed beef heart every couple weeks to ad Fe for the plants. Or, like the video I posted, you can feed brine shrimp or blood worms. Also, if you ad red wiggler composting worms to a flood and drain bed they will convert the fish poop into K and Phosphorous I believe, whatever the plants...

I would look at my local waters and see if there are fish that I can get from there. I have recently seen people even using crawfish. Many different options!

DWC I like the picture in my head of the system you describe in Africa. Sounds really cool! I look at those Harbor Freight flyers all the time and I saw a solar fountain pump in one of them. I'm trying to convince my dad to set something up on his 60 acres with that pump coming out of his 18'...

DWC, I looked on CL and found those 55 gallon barrels for $10 each in Seattle. I'm not sure where you are located but they're similarly priced in El Paso, TX as well. You could also do smaller barrelsm I saw 35g barrels as well. Just search for "food grade" on CL!

This video is very long and boring but I really like the setup at the end. I used this as the basis for what I want to build as soon as I move. Here is an illustration of how I would set up my system. Feel free to ask questions. These are videos from a guy that does what I want to do!

Hello, I found this forum looking for info about aquaponics and I saw this. I used to have a 150 gallon discus tank. If any of you are familiar with discus they are a rather delicate fish to care for in an aquarium. My aquarium had a homemade sump because my friend owned an aquarium store and...