Affiliate Disclosure

Some Gear pages on AquacultureFarm.org contain affiliate links. A purchase made through one of them may earn us a small commission, and it never raises what you pay.

Below is how those links work, plus the limits we set on them.

In brief

As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

Here’s the mechanism. You follow a product link, complete a purchase inside the retailer’s tracking window, and the retailer passes a small share of that sale to us. Nothing extra is added to your bill.

Researching, checking, writing, and hosting the guides costs money. Commissions cover those bills, so readers never hit a paywall or a sign-up form.

What commissions don’t influence

Which products appear. No company can pay to be included, rated, or ranked.

What a guide says. A product with a bigger commission gets no warmer words. If two aerators would handle a pond equally well, the guide sides with the stronger specifications.

Whether problems get mentioned. Each product write-up lists genuine downsides. Anything that affects fish survival or your safety goes in the guide.

Who sees a guide first. Readers do. No brand or advertiser previews a guide before it’s published.

How gear gets judged without hands-on testing

Plenty of review sites blur this, so we’ll state it up front. Nobody here tests the gear we write about. What we do instead:

  • Study the maker’s specifications, manuals, and safety warnings
  • Compare them with what extension research says the job takes, such as UF/IFAS noting that stationary emergency aerators are often sized at about 1 horsepower per surface acre
  • Look for recurring themes in verified buyer reviews, like whether an oxygen probe holds its calibration
  • Name the source behind each point

A line saying owners consistently report something means exactly that, and no more.

Drugs and medicated feeds. Some need a veterinarian’s order, and all carry label rules and withdrawal times. We explain what they are. We don’t sell them.

Chemical pond treatments. Algaecides, aquatic herbicides, and other pond chemicals are governed by their labels and by state rules, so the choice stays between you and the label.

Live fish and shellfish. Moving live animals can require health certificates and permits, and the rules differ by state.

Undocumented products. When a maker can’t tell us the materials or the rating, we leave the product out.

Sized for your setup

Gear that fits one setup can fail in another. An air pump sized for a backyard aquaponics tank won’t carry a commercial catfish pond through a hot night.

That’s why each gear link states the job and the scale it fits, right alongside the link itself. Compare that with your own water before buying.

Mostly on Gear pages: aerators, dissolved oxygen meters, water test kits, pumps and plumbing, nets and seines, feeders, tanks and filters, backup generators and alarms, pond liners, aquaponics kits, and shellfish gear.

The rest of the site is link-free. Guides on water quality, species, fish health, and permits are written to inform, and they carry no affiliate links.

About prices

You won’t find prices in our guides. Retail prices move too fast to stay accurate, so check the retailer’s page for today’s figure.

A new farm doesn’t need every gadget anyway. A reliable water test kit, an oxygen meter, and a way to add oxygen cover the essentials.

Affiliate programs

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Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.

Any program we join later will be named here.

Your data after a click

Following an affiliate link places a cookie in your browser. It lets the retailer know the visit started here, so it can credit the sale.

Your name, address, payment details, and order stay with the retailer, under the retailer’s own privacy policy. We never receive them. For what this site itself collects, see our privacy policy.

Questions

Wondering how a particular product earned its place in a guide? Email editor@aquaculturefarm.org.

Last reviewed: 10/09/2026