How to build an aquaponic pond system at home 

charles bacon needs to produce more media ! his work is beautiful and can't find much in hte public domain

I am just getting into starting my hobby in aquaponics

I felt like I was watching an episode of Grand Designs but for the garden! =D Awesome channel, keep it up!

Love Barra more than any other fish I've eaten.

Does the water level keep rising and falling with the filling and emptying of the bed? Also is there much evaporation?It's one of the most beautiful systems I have seen well done.

If I have a pond with tilapia and duckweed in it do I need to adjetate the bottom of the pond so the nutrients get up to the lettuce

great vid!

What if the pond water didnt recycle itself like that and you had to keep adding fresh water to the pond? Would this be possible? Would it harm the fish?

awesome!!

Also, have you found bell siphon flood/drain systems to be markedly more beneficial than just timed fill and drain? I could never tweak the bell siphon just right and just had a standpipe and a timer.

What's your opinion on gravel sizes? I've heard some people say that sand is ideal because it catches more organic material for breakdown inside the grow bed, whereas pea gravel just lets everything slip through and has less surface area for dense bacterial colonies.

Hope you respond to my questions. Since the pond was established, did you just add a pump to the existing pond to take it to the grow bed? Do you still use a pond filter with bio filter? And if you started from scratch how would you run the plumbing differently? Thanks

very nice

Oops my mistake, I actually meant does the pond level noticeably rise and fall with the filling and emptying of the bed? But I've since done a lot of homework and found a way round it. Thanks anyway.

Does that guy sound like Murray Hewitt from flight of the concords or what!

Sounds like he's saying bill cipher XD

do you poop back into the garden after eatin the veg?

This video, whilst informative, made me feel like I was a baby boomer, watching Burke's Backyard in the 90's. The cringeworthy acting of these two blokes helped me realize why I stopped bothering to watch Aussie TV.