How To Build an Aquaponic System with an Aquarium.

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[duanagrant]

You are delightful! And what a wonderful build👋👋👋👍👍

[ahowlmx]

Hey pretty neat idea! Although you might consider adding a 90 degree elbow on the bottom of your bell siphon and a short length of 1/2 inch pvc. It will slow the water enough to create the siphon but will break easier when your water level drops.

[craigh]

i think that would be a great system built on a much bigger scale to grow vegetables in the house in the winter, but it probably wouldn't be cost effective unless a good amount of natural sunlight was used.

[Rhonda]

Thank you, I've been looking for a video such as your's that explains step by step how to set up a small aquaponics system for weeks now....thank's to your video I decided to go ahead and give it a try. Mainly because I already have a 29 gallon aquarium with 3 fancy goldfish and have a H.O.B filter as well as a 110 gallon canister filter on it but no matter how much filtration I have it seems my aquarium always seems to be cloudy and I've been killing my back every week or week and a 1/2 doing a 50% water change or 25% change one every 4 to 5 days! As well as cleaning my hob filter every 2 weeks and canister filter once a month....Hoping the addition of the aquaponics system to my aquarium it will help to keep it cleaner!

[Rite.]

I plan to do this in combination with my turtle's dry dock area. I would like to let him have free access to food for himself and to cut down on the ammonia his messy self causes.

[terrynicholson]

Possibly another light on the other side
Is needed, those cfls work nicely and not bad of yeild for price...

[Peleski]

The syphon seems quite nifty, though I'm wondering if it's really needed. Just a a down pipe through one side of the box, while the intake is at the other, would seem to be enough for a clean water flow through the box. I suspect the plants would grow better if the roots were not getting flooded all the time.

[SouthpawDavey]

Worked out well. I am yet to try aquaponics.
Good stuff.

[WildDragon]

if your siphon continues to flow once the siphon starts, that means your water flow into the tank is too high and needs to be turned down a bit

[jacobclark]

you used a copper pipe cutter instead of a rachet PVC cutter but hey it got the job done so that's all that matters

[Peleski]

Points for developing your own syphon. They're quite pricey premade. The system seems quite noisy, which would be a concern in my apartment if I were watching TV etc. I wonder if you had the emptying pipe below the fishtank water line whether it would cut the noise.

[russaification]

The water level is to high, the roots get oxygen for the air, if they are totally submerged they won't grow fast . If you added a bubbler to the tank water that would provide better oxygen also.

[mef]

What kind of plastic is the container made of?  I've heard of people having to elbow the output to get it to work better.

[jayfrz]

What’s the size of the pipe you use as the siphon?

[John-soxw]

Hi, please help me. If my aquarium uses a bell siphon technique, how can I keep my aquarium water level the same without fluctuations? Would I need another tank? if so how would my set up look like?

[CHIN_FRO]

awesome I'm going to try and do the same setup can I find that pump at the pet store and is it just called a pump thanks in advance!

[subrag]

You keep talking about a siphon, but it seems that you could just use gravity to let the water drain into the tank. What are the advantages of using the bell siphon?

[AmaraquesTundraTok]

Cool video! i'm replicating this with a planter and 10gallon tank. When the siphon hits -and drains the growbed, has your tank overfilled?

[showman]

is there a way not to put it on top of the aquarium.

[Raffix]

Why do you have a heater in the tank? Goldfish are coldwater fish