Aquaponics Grow Bed

Media beds are the foundation for aquaponic growers.

Aquaponics grow bed. The size of your grow bed depends on the amount of plants you would like to keep in your aquaponics system. There are literally dozens of variations in aquaponics grow bed layouts. Grow bed containers. Not only does the media keep plants in a stationary and upright position but it also provides as a surface area for bacteria to thrive inside your grow beds and a acts as a mechanical trap for the solid waste as it is expelled out of the fish tank and into the grow beds.

Hydroponics aquaponics grow media. Below is a great photo that was sent to us from one of our customers located in a southern california city who bought four of our free standing family school series grow beds. However the raft based aquaponics system uses a raft instead of growing media that floats above nutrient filled solution to support the plants. The aquaponics usa systems utilize water not soil as the main nutrient delivery system so the grow bed functions to hold the water the media and the plants.

Because it is so simple cheap and affordable it makes a great first try at aquaponic and a good opportunity to educate children in your home on your class about the. Grow beds are containers that provide an area for the plants to grow in. Continous aquaponics growing channels. Serving as both extra solids filtration as well as a growing space these aquabundance 200 gallon grow beds give you 26 sq ft of growing area.

Another tank upgrade system an aquarium of only 10 gallons is a home for the fish and a simple matching pvc pipe with end caps plays the role of a hydroponic plant bed. An aquaponics grow bed is one of the 3 main components in any aquaponics system the other two being the fish tank and the water transfer system. We have small aquaponic grow beds suitable for the backyard grower just starting out with a few plants and also large aquaponic grow beds for the professional grower looking to build a commercially sized aquaponics system with many plants. Most home based growers use some kind of growing media in their aquaponics system.

Theoretically it can be any length. In this grow bed environment all types of seedlings can thrive optimally including vegetables tropical house plants orchids flowers shrubs and even tree start ups. Why do we need grow media in aquaponics. The grow bed is often an aquaponics biofilter itself in that the natural bacteria takes up residence on the surfaces of the gravel media.

We designed the beds so they can be linked together to form a continous channel grow beds. Best of all the grow bed channel can still sit on our purpose made stands so your grow bed channel will look professional and be at a convienient height for most crops.