Optimal Fish & Vegetable Balance for Aquaponics

Some older aquaponics designs rely on low fish stocking densities and high plant counts as they are having to compromise the growth of the fish to maximize plant production. This leaves them no way of recouping the energy and feed cost associated with raising the fish, reducing their potential revenue and relying solely on their vegetable crop to cover all overheads and expense. This then leads to very slim margins and being one of the leading cause of farm failures in the aquaponics industry.

Most of the farms using this production model only manage to stay in business offering training courses to replicate their system giving a false sense of prosperity in the aquaponics industry, that is based on plant sales alone. While if you have a balanced aquaponics farm that can control and maximize production of both fish and plants.

We find we can cover all our operating costs with the sale of the fish, leaving a healthy profit from the vegetable sales.  This level of production is only achievable if you have complete control and flexibility, something that Green Evolutions Aquaponics systems achieve.