This is my new aquaponics system, without a pump! Basically a Wickeing Bed with fish in it.
A Wicking Bed eliminates the need for daily watering through
the magic of capillary action (I think). 
A basin is filled with water and a planting pot, taller than the basin,
is put in it, and filled with soil. The water enters little holes in the bottom of the pot and “wicks
up” as needed to keep the soil at a constant moisture
level. Moisture loving plants can be
planted the pot and watered very infrequently without fear of their drying out.
But the bottom part of the Wicking Bed, the basin, looks a
lot like a fish tank, an Aquaponics Tank. So why not put
fish in it and see what happens?
So that’s
what I did.
True the water in Wicking
Bed gets a little brown (from the suspended organic matter) but no more so than
in a natural pond and fish live in those.
I’ll keep you posted.
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