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Iceagefarmer at 22:16, 17 September 2017

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The chief input to your Aquaponic system is the feed. Having surveyed a great amount of research, I no longer believe that typical pet store goldfish food is going to provide enough nutrition beyond what your fish requires, to then also leave requisite trace minerals for your plants.

However, I do believe we can get there creatively, at low cost (both dollar and energy).

Currently, I mix it up a good amount:
* Some leafy greens from the grow beds
* And, I do use [http://amzn.to/2fpYLbR GMO-free, Organic] Aquaponic-specific formulation with 34% protein.
* Duckweed: % TBD
* Pending (see below): up to 25% BSFL

Here's what the nutrition/ingredients look like on that:

http://iceagefarmer.com/docs/Aquaponics/AquaOrganic-Aquaponics-FishFood.jpg

=== Experiments ===

Among the ongoing experiments related to Aquaponics is specifically how to craft an entirely self-sufficient supply of fish feed, which, as I stated, is the primary input to the system.

* [[Duckweed]] -- grows quite easily in your Aquaponic system (although does so at the expense of nitrates).
** Can be used to feed fish good, living, fresh greens, which is just plain healthy for them.
** Haven't yet seen studies around to what extent this can supplement good fish diet.

* [[Black Soldier Fly Larvae]] (BSFL) -- extremely easy, nearly self-contained constant production of protein.
** Studies show that up to 25% of the diet of many fish can be replaced with BSFL without sacrificing growth speed, protein quality, or waste production ''(Zhang et al., 2014a and Zhang et al., 2014b)''

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 * [[Black Soldier Fly Larvae]] (BSFL) -- extremely easy, nearly self-contained constant production of protein.
 ** Studies show that up to 25% of the diet of many fish can be replaced with BSFL without sacrificing growth speed, protein quality, or waste production ''(Zhang et al., 2014a and Zhang et al., 2014b)''
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 Currently, I mix it up a good amount:
 * Some leafy greens from the grow beds
 * Duckweed:  % TBD
 * Pending (see below):  up to 25% BSFL
-Here's what the nutrition/ingredients look like on that:
+Here's what the [http://iceagefarmer.com/docs/Aquaponics/AquaOrganic-Aquaponics-FishFood.jpg nutrition/ingredients look like on that].
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