Aquaponics vs hydroponics
Both Aquaponics and hydroponics help in the robust growth of
plants and healthy coexistence of plants and animals in the desired ecosystem.
Hydroponics enables one to grow plants in a mineral solution and plants do not
grow on the soil itself. These two systems are interesting to watch both are
advantageous and disadvantageous in their own ways.
Here are some of the major
differences between aquaponics and hydroponics
Aquaponics is cheaper in the long run
Basically, hydroponics involves growing plants in a place where
there are only pure nutrients or manure. Basically, hydroponics requires you to
test the PH and know all the nutrients required by a specific plant.
On the other hand, Aquaponics is very easy to use since a majority
of the nutrients are in the soil. manure comes as an addition to nutrients that
are already there. Setting up a hydroponics is also quite expensive compared to
aquaponics. More to that, you need to remember that in hydroponics plants
need to be in a inertia media where you control; air flow to the plants hence
this makes it more expensive.
Due
to high demand of hydroponics systems, mineral components needed to grow the
plants have become sparser and hence more expensive in the long run. On the
other hand, aquaponic systems only require only fish manure to do well.
Aquaponics is harder to start
Needless to say, if we compare Hydroponics on one hand and
aquaponics on the other hand, aquaponic takes quite a longer time to set up.
For hydroponics, you only require to set up an appropriate
structure and start the process of growing your plants. However, on the other
hand in aquaponics, you need to ensure there are specific bacteria e.g.
for proper aquaponics you need to use the cycling process.
In terms of structures, aquaponics
requires slightly more tanks or IBC set-ups which are then cut into half and
sometimes require a steel frame.
Aquaponics systems provides healthier food
Compared to hydroponic systems, aquaponic systems
only use natural manure. Excessive chemical compositions mainly used in
hydroponic system will make the food unhealthy for human consumption. More to
that, sometimes plants hydroponic systems die early due to low oxygen levels.
They are also less tasty than plants
from soil aquaponics systems. This is because naturally its is difficult to
satisfy plants with all their nutrient needs
Management
Basically,
management of hydroponic systems is difficult in the long run. Periodically,
salt and mineral components around the plant are too much and hence someone
needs to always evacuate the water to make it fresh for proper survival of the
plants.
The
aquaponic systems are 100% organic manure and hence there is no cases of root
rot that are hugely visible in hydroponics on the other hand, aquaponics
systems only require you to have fish manure for proper growth of your plants there
is no time manure will be toxic to the plant in an aquaponics system set-up. Basically,
these are aquaponics vs hydroponics main
differences.
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