Aquaponics - The Complete Handbook

From your first tank to your own harvest: "Aquaponics - The Complete Handbook" guides you step by step toward a system in which fish and plants nourish each other - with no synthetic fertiliser, minimal water use, and year-round harvests.

This comprehensive, practical reference combines easy-to-understand fundamentals with the depth that serious hobby growers and aspiring self-sufficient gardeners are looking for. Across more than 30 chapters you will learn how the biological cycle really works, how to plan, build and permanently balance your own system - and how to avoid the typical (and expensive) beginner mistakes right from the start.

What's inside:
• Fundamentals and the nitrogen cycle - explained clearly
• Materials and substrates: rockwool, net pots, expanded clay and more
• The three system types plus a complete build guide (IBC system)
• Technology, hydraulics and correct sizing - with worked examples
• Plants, propagation, and nutrient/deficiency diagnosis
• Edible fish in profile: African catfish, tilapia, carp, trout and others
• Water parameters, cycling, fish health and troubleshooting
• Legal guidance for Switzerland AND Germany
• Checklists, a water-log template, glossary and bibliography

With numerous illustrations, clear tables and concrete reference values - for beginners with some prior knowledge as well as advanced growers. Build your own piece of self-sufficiency - well-founded, sustainable and field-tested.