Bioponica

Here's a link to this chapter from the FAO website which comes from the Integrated Fish Farming in China Training Manual. It's a very important scientific piece on the biology and chemistry of pond fertilization and natural fish feed. Beautiful algae rich pond from Solitude Rising. Ideal for raising carp, tilapia, crawfish and ... Continue Reading

Same applies to grass digestion bags inside freshwater Biogarden or Incubator fish tanks. While the science behind water chemistry may be easy to memorize for first and second year class studies the practical understanding or application of that science may not. For high school teachers an aquaponic classroom project can ... Continue Reading

What makes bioponics uniquely different that aquaponics is that while it supports fish, it does not require fish to fertlize the beds. A balanced system is like an ecosystem, supporting all varieties of life but not depending on one element to support the operation.

  Fish eat grass so why do we feed them grains? They are vegetarians, herbivores. Contrary to conventional thinking, fish do not prefer manufactured foods. They like plants and bacteria that decompose those plants. Plus they eat algae. Duckweed is an exceptional plant that tilapia feed on as are the roots of ... Continue Reading

  This is a schematic developed a few years ago to give us a working scenario for building the Biogarden. Today we don't let algae into the beds so much, and in fact keep it separate as a pH modifier and fish feed for herbivores and filter feeders. Algae begets zooplankton ... Continue Reading

From around the world we are learning more and more how others are creating their own models of sustainability. Hydroponics would benefit tremendously to have a homemade source of fertlizer. The notion of organic can actually be elevated to a second generation, requiring that food consumed by the source of the ... Continue Reading

We have much to learn from peoples of "underdeveloped" countries around the world. In remote farming villages of China, fish ponds are managed with great efficiency, entirely eliminating the costs and complications seen with industrialized aquaculture. That is happening because their traditional utilizes a process of "nutrient cycling". To fertilize their ponds and raise lots ... Continue Reading

Here is an overview of what minerals and elements are found in human urine. This is useful for determining urine requirements for volumes of water base total plants and plant needs. Algosolar will soon post a calculator to help calculate ratios. Nearly all of these substances are utilized by all ... Continue Reading

Here is a simple project for raising algae that is practical, as a tabletop exercise, for high school education labs. Growing in this fashion is similar to the process of high tech bioreactors and various tube systems commonly used in the biotech industry. Researchers feed algae with CO2 from combusted exhaust emissions, a method ... Continue Reading

It's a bit of a long intro so if you fast forward 5.5 minutes you'll cut to the chase. This is an informative overview of algae; its origin, structure and phylogy. Delivered by Russel Chapman at Scripps Oceanograpy along wiht his his humorous affection for algal species. It's a bit of a long intro so if ... Continue Reading