Simple Flood and Drain Aquaponics System
Simple Flood and Drain Aquaponics System
This is a very common aquaponics system because it is very simple and effective.
All you need is a fish tank and grow beds. A pump will bring fish water to your plants which will help feed them.
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Hi Joey how are you regulating the flow rate as you don’t comment on this important point, ie if the pump is too strong one assumes the grow bed would overflow. Other point is how much water is left in the grow bed each time as it is constantly being filled even whilst it is being siphoned off ?
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put the sediment tank in with the plant tank
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Ebb and Flood or Ebb and Flow is a form of hydroponics that is known for its simplicity, reliability of operation and low initial investment cost. Pots are filled with an inert medium which does not function like soil or contribute nutrition to the plants but which anchors the roots and functions as a temporary reserve of water and solvent mineral nutrients. The hydroponic solution alternately floods the system and is allowed to ebb away.
Under this system a water-tight growing bed, containing either clean gravel or coarse sand as the rooting medium, is periodically flooded for a short period (5 to 10 minutes) with a nutrient solution pumped from a supply tank. By placing the nutrient solution supply tank below the growing bed, the nutrient solution can drain back by gravity.
Ebb and flood hydroponic systems are also quiet, while using less power than other hydroponic systems, which means that they can be used in environments where acoustic signature and excessive plumbing is objectionable, such as residential or classroom applications where space is at a premium.
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So a few questions. I have a water pump that continuously pumps fish water from the fish tank first to a heavy’s filter and then to the grow bed. A bell siphon regulates the amount of water within my horizontal grow bed, and the siphon allows water to drain back to the fish tank. Is my aquaponics system considered to be a fill and drain system? I think I have a low iron issue on-going although I have only had my system up in running with fish now for about one month from the time I wrote this paragraph. I have placed nails into the water. Additionally, I have heard that if my system is running well, any given aquaponics system is not encouraged to add an additive such as chelated iron to the water in the system. What is your recommendation…should I use additives or not? Instead I am putting an oxygenator into the water tank. I have heard that electromagnetic submersible water pumps draw our iron out of the water…is this true?
No.. flood & drain.. is not the same as "ebb & flow"…
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Over time do the plants drain the water of the fishes tank leading to a lower amounts of water ? I don’t khow I’m very much curious can you please answer this question I’m dieing
to khow the answer ?
And Jon… I’ve been doing hydroponics for nearly 30 years.. and that included commercially for 10 years…
And I’ve been doing aquaponics for nearly 10 years.. as have a lot of Australians…
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I’m sorry for the late question but I wanted to know how high the water level in the flood basins should go. Does it go almost all the way up, half way, ect?
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No… you might have "invented" the phrase "ebb and flood"…
Both "ebb and flow".. and "flood & drain" … are defined hydroponics methodologies… and different in application….
Their definitions go back over a decade…
Aquaponics utilises "flood & drain".. or should… for very specific reasons…
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is trout ok to use?
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In your experience how are they two different systems?
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??? It’s ebb and flood. tides flood in and ebb out. flood and drain is same as flood and ebb. you might get your own info straight b4 "correcting" others.
No… flood & drain and "ebb & flow" (a hydroponics concept)… are two totally different methods… ebb & flow should never be used in an aquaponic system..
Question: so the drain from the plant bed is it suppose to drain at the bottom or top of the tank. I’m a newbee to this..
I would think the water from the fish drains at the top of plant bed (if no overflow tank). Then flitered through those pebble thing and drained at the bottle…. If I’m wrong can someone tell me the cycle?
This is a commonly made mistake by those new to aquaponics, or those that transfer hydroponic concepts.
Ebb & Flow is a "tidal" hydroponics concept, hence it’s name (tide "flows" in, then "ebbs" out), it fills from the bottom, and drains back through the pump, and is timer based
Flood & Drain is more a mimic of the natural rain/drain cycle as applies to soil.
The grow beds are flooded from above, then drained from the bottom through a separate drain. Either timer based, or continuously pumped
you have not been educated. the phrase is ebb and flood. flood in and ebb out.
Hi Joey, What sorts of fish would be suitable for this type of system? I was initially thinking I might try aquaponics and use Tetras or something, but I don’t want to hurt or distress them. Thanks 🙂