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    Modern aquaponics combines aquaculture and hydroponics into a single, integrated system. Plants grow in gravel or freely in water and receive nutrients from fish waste below. Bacteria convert ammonia from fish waste into nitrites and then nitrates, which plants uptake, cleaning the water in a continuous nitrogen cycle. The system works by fish producing waste and ammonia in a tank; bacteria converting waste to fertilizer and nitrogen; pumping nitrogen to plants above; and filtering cleaned water back to the tank, benefiting both fish and plants.

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    Modern aquaponics combines aquaculture and hydroponics into a single, integrated system. Plants grow in gravel or freely in water and receive nutrients from fish waste below. Bacteria convert ammonia from fish waste into nitrites and then nitrates, which plants uptake, cleaning the water in a continuous nitrogen cycle. The system works by fish producing waste and ammonia in a tank; bacteria converting waste to fertilizer and nitrogen; pumping nitrogen to plants above; and filtering cleaned water back to the tank, benefiting both fish and plants.

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    Modern aquaponics combines aquaculture and hydroponics into a single, integrated system. Plants grow in gravel or freely in water and receive nutrients from fish waste below. Bacteria convert ammonia from fish waste into nitrites and then nitrates, which plants uptake, cleaning the water in a continuous nitrogen cycle. The system works by fish producing waste and ammonia in a tank; bacteria converting waste to fertilizer and nitrogen; pumping nitrogen to plants above; and filtering cleaned water back to the tank, benefiting both fish and plants.

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    Modern Aquaponics

    Modern aquaponics (note the combination of aquaculture and hydroponics)


    combines the two systems into one single, unified or integrated system. The
    plants are not grown in soil but grow in various types of rocks or gravel,
    though in some systems, grow freely in the water. The nutrients for the plants
    come from the fish below a growbed, the place where the plants grow.

    The nitrogen cycle is a major part of the system. The waste from fish,
    food waste, and other plant/animal-based material in the water will produce
    ammonia. The ammonia is toxic to the fish and plants, but bacteria (microbes)
    in the water break down the ammonia and change it into nitrite. However,
    nitrite can kill the fish, but the bacteria then break down the nitrite into nitrate,
    also toxic to fish, but it is taken up by the plants in the growbed. The water
    becomes clean again. The cycle continues.

    The four simple steps further explain how aquaponics works using a tank,
    pump, and growbed. First, the fish in a tank eat and they produce waste and
    ammonia is produced by the waste. The waste will eventually be used as food
    and nutrients for the plants. Next, through the nitrogen cycle, the waste is
    converted to fertilizer and nitrogen for the plants. The process is also called
    nitrification. Third, the nitrogen and solid fish waste are pumped to the
    plants in the growbed above the water. The plants use the nutrients for
    continued growth. Finally, the water pumped into the plants is then filtered
    and cycled back to the tank below. The oxygen-rich water has been cleaned
    and there is very little waste. The plants benefit because they receive
    nutrients. The fish benefit because the water is cleaned.
    Question 1) Which of the following best defines aquaponics?
    A: Combines the habitats of fish or other organisms that live in water with the
    growth or farming of plants.

    B: It takes the world of water-living organisms and mixes it with plants growing in
    soil.

    C: The breeding and raising of plants and animals in the water.

    D: Growing plants without soil except when necessary.

    Question 2) Which of the following is growing plants without soil?

    A: Agriculture B: Aquaculture

    C: Hydroponics D: All the above

    Question 3) Which of the following is a major part of an aquaponics system?

    A: Oxygen cycle B: Nitrogen cycle

    C: Carbon cycle D: All the above

    Question 4) Which of the following occurs during nitrification?

    A: Waste is converted to fertilizer and nitrogen for plants

    B: Waste is converted to fertilizer and nitrogen for fish

    C: Fertilizer and nitrogen is converted to waste

    D: Nitrogen is converted to fertilizer for plants

    Question 5) Which of the following will be produced from the waste from fish, food
    waste, and other plant/animal-based material in the water?

    A: Oxygen B: Microbes

    C: Ammonia D: Nitrates

    Question 6) In Hydroponics system-


    If there are 70 pipes and each pipe contains 80 plants. How many plants
    can be plotted in the system?

    Question 7) Plants of brinjal, muskmelon and tomatoes are potted in the pipes with the
    ratio of 1:3:4 respectively. Find out how many plants of each are potted?

    Question 8) If the dimensions of a tank in which fish will be kept are 40m x 30m x 4m.
    a) Find the quantity of water, if the height of water in the tank is 3m.
    b) Find the volume of the tank.
    c) Find the volume of air in the tank.
    Prepared by- Arvind Kumar
    TGT(Bio)
    K.V.IIM, Lucknow

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