US 12,329,077 B2
Aquaponics plant production system
Cori Byrge, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed by Cori Byrge, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed on Apr. 19, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/303,206.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/363,351, filed on Apr. 21, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0337609 A1, Oct. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. A01G 31/02 (2006.01); A01G 31/06 (2006.01)
CPC A01G 31/02 (2013.01) [A01G 31/06 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An aquaponics plant production system, comprising:
a flow-through chamber including one or more removable plant receptacles extending into the flow-through chamber, each of the one or more removable plant receptacles configured to contain one or more plant's roots;
a nutrient-supplementing hydroponic substrate contained within at least one of the one or more removable plant receptacles, the nutrient-supplementing hydroponic substrate configured to supplement the one or more plant's roots with one or more nutrients;
a pre-filter chamber located upstream of the flow-through chamber;
a post-filter chamber located downstream of the flow-through chamber; and
a pump configured to direct aquarium wastewater from an aquarium into the pre-filter chamber such that the aquarium wastewater is circulated through the pre-filter chamber, the flow-through chamber, the post-filter chamber and back into the aquarium;
wherein the post-filter chamber includes:
a chemical filtration media configured to neutralize one or more chemicals in the circulated aquarium wastewater before the circulated aquarium wastewater reenters the aquarium; and
a biofiltration media configured to convert ammonia and nitrite present in the circulated aquarium wastewater into nitrate before the circulated aquarium wastewater renters the aquarium.