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Fish powered garden

These systems use fish to provide nutrients to the plants. They are not too difficult to build and they work very well.

Fish eat, they poop/have bio-waste, the grow beds, acting as a filter, are laced with a good bacteria that breaks down the bio-waste/poop (now known as Ammonia). This Ammonia, is then broken down again, into Nitrites. The Nitrite is broke down even more into Nitrate. (remember it like this, I before A). The Nitrates are then eaten by the plants. It is actually the plants that clean the water and return it to the fish. Where it all begins again. A fast growth rate like Hydro or Aeroponics

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