Hi,

I have been doing aquaponics as a hobby for a couple years now (could be called an addiction at this stage). I find the aesthetics of systems like the Farm Fountain irresistible, because plants and fish are pretty but also because it is beautiful in concept as well.

The latest in my own journey is that I'm trying to plan the next system (as always), as the weather warms up in PA. One of these concepts is kind of like the farm fountain in that it is a container of water, pumped up to a media-filled bed, then raining back down to the fish container. This is the simplest AP that can be put together, other than maybe floating gardens.

This would be a wooden box, with 200 gallons of water underground (4x4x2 feet deep), pumped up to a 4x4 foot x 1 foot deep gravel bed. The draining water could be directed to the sides of the box to grow smaller plants on "planted walls". Tomatoes and other viney plants could be trained upward to a trellis above the box.

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