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Welcome to the Aquaponics wiki!

All right so, what are we doing here? What exactly is Aquaponics? What do we intend on doing and how are we going to go about it? It's all in here!

Let's start with a brief on what Aquaponics is and what this project intends on doing.

Aquaponics, refers to any system that combines conventional aquaculture (raising aquatic animals such as snails, fish, crayfish or prawns in tanks) with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) in a symbiotic environment. In normal aquaculture, excretions from the animals being raised can accumulate in the water, increasing toxicity. In an aquaponic system, water from an aquaculture system is fed to a hydroponic system where the by-products are broken down by Nitrifying bacteria into nitrates and nitrites, which are utilised by the plants as nutrients, and the water is then recirculated back to the aquaculture system.