Aquaponics In A Downtown Greensboro Aquarium?

Aquaponics is a process that uses plants to filter the water from aquariums or other containers in which fish and many other aquatic animals are raised. It's beauty is that the fish and animal waste is exactly what plants need to grow healthy and the plant waste is exactly what is needed by the fish and animals to keep them healthy as well. It's the way it works in nature only stuck in a container or small man made pond.

As a rule Aquaponics can be quite expensive and most farmers avoid it because of the costs of building huge tanks or ponds but if you're going to be building an aquarium anyway... Well, it just makes sense that we look less than a mile down the road to North Carolina A & T University and invite them to help us design and run a downtown Aquaponics program at the aquarium. I mean, if you're going to have the water and the tanks and the fish and the other aquatic animals anyway...

But does it really have to end with that. In keeping with our plan to make Greensboro the Aquatic City we thought we should also look at some of those empty warehouses and big box retail stores sitting all over town as places to build year 'round Aquaponics farms raising Tilapia, Catfish, Crayfish, Mussels and other fish for human comsumption along with fruits and vegetables all grown indoors. He's an example of an indoor Aquaponics operation in Chicago, Illinois.



Aquaculture, a form of Aquaponics that only involves plants and not animals, can also be used in water filtration to remove toxins from polluted waters. We might want to look into that as well. You know, to take care of some of Greensboro's runoff into Jordan Lake.