I have performed aquaponics experiments in my own apartment, parts of which were automated. The first thing I would say here is that anything like the setup you

I have performed aquaponics experiments in my own apartment, parts of which were automated. The first thing I would say here is that anything like the setup you see in this video is a mammoth amount of work and is impressive from the sheer amount of investment done. My experience with aquaponics was just that. High cost, where cost is time, worry and cash. The idea is that the costs are fixed, but that's never quite right. Creeping costs include tools needed, fixtures to make small changes, replacement parts, redundancy, pest management and surprises like HVAC. After doing aquaponics for close to two years I moved on. It is expensive to do if you don't already live in a tropical area and can't work at scale. Even if there weren't planting, maintance, months to years of time to appropriately cycle and balance an ecosystem, labor to move and replace water, catch and feed fish and plant, replace bulbs, check water conditions, remove sick fish, etc, etc - the labor to merely deal with removing plants was startling. I learned a ton and had even more fun - but boy are there decades of progress to be made on homestead style scale AP.