Home; gallery; posts; aquaponics uk. aquaponics uk. welcome to aquaponicsuk. my wife and i put together an aquaponics system in our garden from scratch and managed to get it to balance (this is a big thing)! we started this because i am bipolar and at the time was very depressed, solving all the problems throughout the process has really helped. Aquaponics, is a combination of aquaculture (growing fish) and hydroponics (soil-less growing of plants) in one system. the fish growth provides sustainable nutrients for the plants to grow, with soil-less growing allowing plants to be grown anywhere, organically and with higher productivity than conventional farming..