When raising fishes or other aquatic animals in a tank or constructed ponds is known as aquaponics!
This is the case of my fishes, being reared in a pond.
I can say There are so many reasons why people involved in this practices; it could be there are no spaces on land to construct an earthen pond thereby resulting into constructing a pond or sometimes for the purpose of using these waters from ponds as source of nutrients to plants, this reason in my own case.
Yes, fishes raised in this ponds or tanks, their dungs or excretes, when microbes act on them, they decomposed therefore they serves as nutrients.
This is what happens in my own case, i have a relatively small fish pond, because the available land i have I'm already using it for farming (where I grow vegetables basically). For me to have to good outcome, i utilise the water from the pond, Chanel it straight to the pond and the results are quite outstanding.
Below, are some of the pictures snapped of my plants benefitting from this process.
I think this is a healthy practices which we all can look into especially for those of us that have fishes in our ponds or tanks
It should be noted that NOT only aquaponics, is the only healthy practices, water of fishes rear in an earthen pond equally contains nutrients and if properly channelled they can supply all necessary nutrients to the plants as well
This picture right above, is showing an earthen pond of fishes, surrounded by plants especially banana trees that are well fluorish, all thanks to the nutrients from those waters.
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