What’s aquaponics all about? Find out as Rob Nash takes us on a tour of his Austin Aquaponics greenhouse where aquaculture and hydroponics unite for water conserving crops. On his rocky land that could never support food, he supplies local harvests all year to restaurants, drop-by customers, and the Lone Star Farmers’ Market from aquaponics media-based and raft beds, along with wicking beds.
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Nice and clean? How about nice and brown roots lols
Can someone please tell me what the soil mixture is? it looks excellent
Yes,, a man should providing the food for his family…
Hahahah Rob Nash more like NOB RASH!
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Thanks for the video dude. The best info that I have noticed was at Aqua garden plans (i did a google) it was the most useful tank system that I got to grow.
I am developing a windowless greenhouse kit 40x 15 ft x 8 feet high, for self assembly with the flat roof fitted with my PVT solar system that supplies warm water, while the PV powers the LED grow lights to replace natural sunlight. Its a proven fact that glass houses and poly tunnels lose heat in winter and over heat in summer in many parts of the world.
I dont have the hydroponics expertise, but do have skills in sowing seeds to harvesting the vegtables and fruit in a soil based garden, that always needs to be watered.
I am interested to hear from anybody who does not see an oppotunity to offer a 2nd option to the glass house/poly tunnel
We already have big success in Sth Africa for my flat pack water tanks up to 12,000 litres, assembled on site to reduce the cost of shipping tanks full of air.
All advice welcome
For those who like to build an useful, fundamental, efficient and low-priced aquaponics system, you must discover how to place it altogether and preserve it properly.
Do you give seminars or classes on how to operate a system?
Making aquaponics seems complicated, especially if you have no idea about how to, but it isn't.
How profitable is this?
I'd love to start something like this
Too bad this outfit is no longer aquaponic…they are now a hyrdoponic operation….rumour has it he tried adding extra hydro nutrients to his systems and killed off the fish. He needed to add more fish instead…even if it was just goldfish…lol
Notice to everyone here; you do not need to pay for plans or knowledge about this way of growing – there is much info available on line for free. No, the fish are not 'warm blooded' but are tropical; he misspoke in the video about this and also about the required temps – you'd need to hold tilapia (African cichlids on the aquarium trade) at around 80 degrees year round and you'll lose ALL of them if they go under 70 or so. The more water you have in your system, the steadier the water temp will be and you can run the hoses through compost piles which are typically around 110 degrees to help heat the water for free in winter. In Texas 120 degree summers, you add ice to the water to cool it and shade the greenhouse and fish tanks. He's got a LOT of water thru-put in this system and that much is not always necessary; he could run his pumps on a lot less electricity if he wanted to save that cost some. Setting up the system with primarily gravity feed with only one pump to raise the water to the highest point, plus an aerator, and you're good, so build it with some thought to that. Whether you can make money on this depends at least some on your business sense, and ability to make the contacts necessary to sell the produce weekly, or hiring people who can help you with that. That may be what his 'intern' was doing, learning and also selling at a farmer's market which could easily pay his salary. I know of family run businesses selling 1000 heads of lettuce a week at $2 a head retail, $1 a head wholesale. Anything ready to sell that doesn't at that point is donated to senior centers, food banks and maybe schools and is a tax write off. You can make another revenue stream out of teaching and giving tours.
i might say that african cichlids prefer non acidic water so keeping the ph high to match where the fish came from.
Very nice garden