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1. What is Aquaponics?
Aquaponics is the merging together of aquaculture and hydroponics. It forms a system where the water polluted by the fish becomes the nutrients for the plants. The new symbiotic relationship is called aquaponics.

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Environmentally friendly with low water usage and low power usage.

The primary inputs to the system are fish, food and water.

Little to no Chemical usage. (Aquaponics requires no synthetic fertilizers and few pesticides.)

Many of the plants that thrive in Aquaponic growing are very easy to grow.

Low susceptibility to pests and diseases.

Multiple crops can be grown and fish can be held from the same system (one system together).

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Lauren Dean and Claudia Cain - Put together your Proposal (FINAL)

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Key included!

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To base our system off of

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Claudia Cain and Lauren Dean - Results (First Draft)

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1. What is the difference between Hydroponics and Aquaponics?
- Hydroponics is the process of growing plants in a soil-less medium (such as gravel, pelletized clay, rock, etc.) where nutrients are added to the water for the plants to absorb. Aquaponics incorporates fish to provide the natural fertilizers and nutrients plants need.  This addition, eliminates the need to add “food” for plants.  Best of all, aquaponics has a built in self cleaning and filtration system that returns clean water to the fish.
2. What should I consider when building my aquaponic system?

Water.  In aquaponics, there is only 7% water loss through evaporation and plant uptake versus 90% in traditional farming.

Energy.  In aquaponics, there are energy efficient components (aerators, pumps, heaters and lighting) that can be also tied in with renewable and off grid solutions.

Waste.  There is virtually no waste from this system.  Unlike hydroponics that requires the water be discharged from adding in nutrient again and again, aquaponics has a natural cleaning and filtration process using the rock media beds.

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Claudia Cain and Lauren Dean - Engineering Capstone Final Presentation

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The below information might appear in your leaves - includes color and what it means

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Aquaponics - Signs of a Lack of Nutrients_Minerals

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At the end of week 1- beginning of week 2

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Before the fish were introuduced.

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Claudia Cain and Lauren Dean - Abstract + Intro, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion

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Claudia Cain and Lauren Dean - Methodology (First Draft+Second Draft)

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Claudia Cain and Lauren Dean - Discussion (First Draft + Second)