Water in Aquaponic & Hydroponic Systems with Bright Agrotech’s Dr. Nate Storey. http://zipgrow.com
Understanding water is crucial for economically & environmentally sustainable aquaponic & hydronic systems. In this video, Nate helps you understand your system’s water needs.
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Nate, thank you for respond. But please give me your oppinion on solar water heater storage in a tank, do you think it will kill the nitrification bateria?
Hello Nate,
I have a question hope you can help. My fish pond is having problem right now of low temperature. 60 degree and my fish stopped eating. I am thinking of having Solar water heater. They will put solar on my roof and give me a tank of 132 gallon (my fish pond is 400 gal). So if the pump get water from my fish pond and have solar heat it up and storage in the tank, at night when temperature low I can run the hot water to the pond to increase temperature. I don't know if I will have any problem with the nitrification bacteria. Because if the solar boil the water up too high in temperature, i don't know if it will kill my nitrification bacteria?
Understanding water is crucial for economically & environmentally sustainable aquaponic & hydronic systems. In this #video, Nate helps you understand your system's water needs.
Hi Scott,
You bet. I'll try to knock out a video on feeding this week.
Nate, could you detail those fish feeders above your tanks in the video?
We recommend 1 lb of fish per 10 gallons of water for happy fish!
How do you figure out how much water is needed to keep the fish happy?
They're poly aquaculture tanks. You can find several sites online that sell them. just google polyethylene aquaculture tanks and plenty will come up.
Great videos. I was wondering where you got/how you made those blue fish tanks. I've been looking around, but finding mostly info on building wooden tanks and such. Any info on that would be awesome. Thanks!
Nitrification is usually attributed to Nitrobacter and Nitrosomonas species, however there are lots of different bacteria that do this type of work in these systems. All of our bacteria colonized our system naturally and over time. We don't use microbe supplements/additions. These bacteria exist just about everywhere in the world, so no matter where you start your system, they'll show up.
What is the name of the bacteria used in the settle tanks?
We typically run between 20-40 ppm, but you can run it at as high as 160 ppm and your fish shouldn't have any problems. It's best not to get it that high however. Plants use nitrates throughout that range.
That's pretty cool, but in our systems our fish serve a very utilitarian purpose. There are a lot of people that are using tropical or ornamental fish in their systems and they seem to love them/do very well.
I think you could pull it off using more "designer" fish. I'm starting a 30gal tank this week and will be trying pleco, (6.5 ph, a lil warm 72f low end and can be fed from the garden and algae) some of the breeds are fairly pricey (zebra pleco=$400+) and might do really well in a good aquaponic system
Thank you for producing such informative videos. My question is how much nitrates do you typically have in your fish tanks and what are the maximums levels your plants use?
Hey Caleb, those are some automatic fish feeders we have rigged up.
What are those vertical buckets over your fish tanks at 1:11?
There's nothing wrong with focusing on the aquaculture (growing fish) side of production; however, from a small farmer' pocketbook point of view, it's simply impossible to be economically sustainable by raising fish for profit (at least at this time). The fish market is flooded by cheap, unsustainable fish farms across the world and as a small producer, we'll never be able to compete with the dirt cheap prices. Not sure what you mean about "green" production, sorry.
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