Aquaponic technology in Sierra Leone: Young fish, groundnuts and green pepper

Hi readers, it´s been a while since our last post. Many things happend at our aquaponic project site.
Although the electricity in Freetown is barely available more then 8 hours per day, we still managed to keep the system alive.
The fish even strated to breed and we had many young ones. Through an long lasting power cut of several days, we were forced to eat the big fishes in order to prevent them from dying because of lack of oxygen as the pump did not run. Currently we only have 4 fish left from the offspring. We managed to harvest a ripe chili although the nitrates are currently low. In a few weeks we will install a sustainable solar and wind power system to supply environmental friendly electricity.

Peppers, groundnuts and tomatoes

Although lack of nitrogen, due to very low fish density, the green pepper is growing and will soon end up in the stew

Ginger is growing

Green leaves showing signs of low nitrates. More fish need to be added in the system.

Hawa harvested the first aquaponic groundnuts from the system. Boiled in salt water they are an excellent and healthy snack.

Please also watch our youtube channel with more recent videos about our aquaponic system and the yount tilapia that hatched a few weeks ago.