Rainman is right on the money. However running the water into a conventional garden would be fine.

It's the nitrates that is the main nutrient powering an aquaponics system. Like Rainman says the plants and algae and some natural denitrification is using up the nitrates in a typical pond and keeps them low. And if you had the density of fish per cubic foot in your pond to produce enough nitrates to fuel domestic plant growth chances, are you would have other serious issues to deal with or you plant and algae growth woukd explode.


Last edited by Cecil Baird1; 10/30/14 02:37 PM.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.