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Just a thought - I don't know the word aquaponics. I'm a native English speaker but not living in an English-speaking country, so I don't know if most people do know the word.

It might be worth using another word on the website, in addition to aquaponics, to make the concept more vivd. Something like "self-" something or "auto-" something (sorry, can't think of anything!).

I know you have other descriptions on the site, but the title in the end is "an aquaponics farm", and this is probably how other people will describe it to friends/etc.




On my website, I have, "AutoMicroFarm is an aquaponics garden, so your plants are automatically watered and fertilized. The fish feed the plants. The plants clean the water for the fish." Do you have a suggestion on how to change the wording to make it more clear that this is a short definition of aquaponics?


It's a decent definition, but appears to far down in the website IMO. It's way below the fold, which means I only encountered it after being confused for a while, during which time I could easily have said "ok this is something that's not relevant for me as I don't know what it is".


Normally hydroponics is used instead of aquaponics, but hydros being the Greek word for aqua, being the Latin word for water, they mean the same thing.


Hydroponics is cultivating plants in water. Aquaculture is raising water-living animals. Aquaponics is the combination of the two in one system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaponics




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