Welcome to Adelaide Aquaponics!

Aquaponics is the creation of a complete cycle of symbiotic relationships where the fish help plants and the plants help fish.

Aquaponics uses no chemicals, requires one tenth of the water needed for field plant production and only a fraction of the water that is used for fish culture.

Our October 2009 seminar was a great success. Great feedback was received regarding the presentations by Murray and Lee and all enjoyed the fresh cakes made by wife and 2 children using produce from the garden. Keep an eye out for our open day comming in February 2010 (hopefully).

We are now on twitter. Search for Adl_Aquaponics, we will have hints and tips for aquaponics and organic gardening, specials and announcements.

A couple of months ago we dug up our front yard and planted a couple of fruit trees, sweet corn, sunflowers,spinach, radishes pumpkin, beans and cucumber. It has been thriving and we have been harvesting cucumbers and beans like mad and looks like the corn is not far off as well as a couple of butternut pumpkins. The front yard looks even prettier covered in veggies and takes lots less work to maintain.

We ate our first Jade Perch a couple of weeks ago. It was 256g, a bit small but I had been champing at the bit. I just baked it whole in foil with a bit of tomato and onion. It was lovely. We have a few that are over 300g now so they are looking good for the BBQ in a couple of weeks.

I have found recently that the 10 Jades in the Kitchen Garden kit are growing quicker than those in the Balcony kit. Seems to be a good system at the moment for ensuring the fish come to size over a prolonged period.

Dont forget to drop us an email at adelaideaquaponics@hotmail.com if you have any questions or want to arrange a visit to look at our operating aquaponics systems or our organic vegetable garden.