Aquaponic Garden Testing Update (after 3 years)

Hello everybody, thanks for stopping by to check out the blog!  Seems I haven't posted anything here since 2015 so I should probably fill you folks in on what's growing on with my aquaponic garden experiments. 
If you watch my YouTube channel (JT Bear) then you may be aware that I was sent a EuroGrower Garden and tried to grow in it with the standard hydroponic garden style they had in mind.  Sadly this didn't work out well for either me, or my poor plants, so I made the switch back to what I know will work for me, and that's aquaponics.  Converting the EuroGrower garden was as simple as adding a table for some lift and a few pipes to extend the plumbing that was already included.  After adding a few cheap feeder fish into the new basement aquaponic set-up, it was ready to run!  Which was a good thing since I was still trying to keep last years Aji Penec plant alive ... 
Well, after our little feeder fish got comfortable and started eating, the garden perked right up,  I got several more months growth from that chili pepper plant and we even managed to squeeze 6 or 7 pepper pods from it before the end!  Tragically, hydro isn't going down as a high point in my gardening career ... life grows on.  There have always been a few things about the standard hydroponic set up that didn't quite work for me anyway and really those are what lead me to aquaponic gardening in the first place. 
With the EuroGrower now being an aquaponic based garden, I no longer am required to dump out 30 gallons, or more, of water each week just so I can mix up a fresh batch of nutrients and fill it up all over again.  That has always seemed wasteful to me, I couldn't make myself do it with the hydro and my plants suffered the dearest cost.  A moment of silence for those 8 fine peppers now gone to the great compost in the sky.  Anyway, with the fish I simply need to remove 10% or so each week and only add perhaps 5 gallons of new water to the system instead of 30.  Those 5 gallons get poured into many of our houseplants, who all seem to love it, and no water gets wasted from the system.  I simply don't have enough houseplants to do that with 30 gallons ...
Now that I've made the switch, back in Feb of 2018, I feel a lot better about the basement garden that I've got running.  Besides, who doesn't enjoy spending a little bit of time watching & feeding fish?