Morning everyone! My name is Emmett, I'm a total newbie here. I was setting up a hydroponics system and then read a bit on aquaponics and realized it was easier and better so here I am.

I have two systems I want to set up. The first one is smaller and will be where I'm learnding the ins and outs of aquaponics. It is located in a small (7' tall 2' wide 3' deep) moisture resistant cabinet off my kitchen. Due to the space limitations, this will be only a 10 gallon system. Light is from a High Pressure Sodium and Metal Halide lights for 24 hour growth. I'd like to grow things like lettuce and a small tomato plant. We have some crazier things we'd like to try, like a small watermelon vine but that's for later.

It would be neat to put an edible fish in this system but I don't know what size tank a tilapia needs and don't know where I can get any so I'll be using guppies unless someone has a better suggestion. (coy?) I was going to use goldfish because I've heard they work well with aquaponics but then I heard they can be problematic.

The flood and drain system is going to be based on this guy's system that I'll be putting together. As for the FT, It's a 10 gal aquarium and. . . I don't know yet. The tank will have to pump into the GB and then drain back in. Other than that I'm open to suggestions.

The second system would be larger and in a greenhouse outside but still not huge. I'm thinking 100 gallons max. For that system I definitely want to use an edible fish. The greenhouse is attached to the house on the southern exposure and will be approx. 6' wide 4' deep and 12-15' tall. I know you're thinking "What kind of dimensions are those?" I have the GBs planned out so that they are stacked vertically up the wall and there will be a ladder to access them. I'm kinda the king of weird spaces. I'll probably make the tank out of concrete with some pond liner paint that I saw in the FAQ.

First I gotta build them though. I have a lot of the pieces parts for the small system and I have the glass for the greenhouse.