Enrich
Now that you’re an expert on aquaponics, share some of these cool facts and additional information with your family and friends.
- A wide variety of foods—lettuce, beans, broccoli, cucumbers, peas, herbs, strawberries, melons, and tomatoes, for example—all flourish through aquaponic farming.
- The most commonly used fish in commercial aquaponics are tilapia species. Channel catfish, largemouth bass, crappies, rainbow trout, pacu, carp, goldfish, perch, Arctic char, barramundi, and Murray cod are also successfully raised in aquaponic systems.
- Aquaponics is featured in the “Living with the Land” attraction at Disney World's EPCOT Center in Florida. The attraction doubles as a working lab for the USDA and NASA, and the food grown there is served at the resort.
- The water is reused indefinitely, only needing to be topped-off when it is lost through transpiration from the plants and evaporation.
Meet Tom Reynolds, a tilapia and aquaponics farmer.
