Purdue Aquaponics: Cut Water Usage
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- This informational video about Aquaponics, the practice of combining fish farming and hydroponics, describes the way users can cut water usage. The program is an introduction to the recommended practices and guidelines for starting a successful aquaponics operation. The video was supported by Purdue Extension, NOAA, & Sea Grant Illinois-Indiana.
To learn more, click here: www.purdue.edu/fnr/extension/...
I will be starting, this winter, a basement system revolving around a 40 gal. Fish aquarium. This will allow me time, before spring when I'll build an outside greenhouse, to learn how to build, and properly regulate a productive system. Thank you for the good tips
Great video. Im a sustainable Ag major at CSU Stanislaus and just started a small media bed aquaponic system at home. So far, after ~2 months, all is working well 🤞
Organic Hydroponic / Aquaponic this is the way of the future !! Great Job
Agreed, aquaponics are a great way to grow your own food. We sell dozens of recycled food grade IBC totes to customers just like you here in Florida, and we greatly appreciate others helping to preserve our planet.
Really good information for my research into this most exciting method of food source production.
Excelent, very explicative video. The best seen so far.
I enjoyed watching this aquaponics video. I will be recommending it to my subscribers.
Good information & excellent explanation. Many thanks.
Great video and very good explanation of how aquaponics operates... nice job guys!
This is really excellent. Thank you very much.
I am going to make a smaller scale setup soon, thanks for the helpful vid!
its been six years i wonder how far are you as of today
Aquaponics is definitely the way to go especially in the effort to help green mother earth. Go for aquaponics...I know I am.
We have a dual crop for our system, Wasabi for long term profit and strawberries and Tomatoes for everyday crops for steady cash flow. We are getting ready to expand our system to 12 tanks this summer. Some materials in our Area of Northern Maine have been very difficult to buy. It's taken us a year to gather equipment we should have had on hand 8 months ago.
Where in main is you farm?
Thank you. It is very nice introductory video.
I'm new to this but finding it to be a really cool way to become more self sustained.
nice & excellent video of aquaponic, please also provide us with more video.
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Great Stuff....Thanks man....I am starting up a home system within the next week.....!
Super cool Adam. i live in FL. It's hot so out door organic gardening kind of sucks, plus the bugs. I have been collecting material to build a system. I'm excited about doing the same thing as you.
We made a small aquaponic system with a 1.5lb fish tank and 2 plants, it's been up for a week and running great. the plants are so tall.
yes just start simple! i started with hydroponics and its not too complicated and now im going to aquaponics good luck
Very nice video. I'm so excited about aquaponics. Good information, thanks so much =)
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LOVE this.. Really like the ideas i'm getting from this.. thanks... :)
Good little video to help the new farmers
I think this is one of the coolest new trends in farming...
This could be a great hobby.
well done vid ... very informative ! all the best
Heck, I'm an Architect and the way the economy is going, my profession could be dead in a few years. I can very easily see myself switching over to Aquaponic farming as a second profession. People will always need good food to eat!
Great video, thank you for sharing Purdue!
Looking good my man. Peace!
I am just getting into starting my hobby in aquaponics
i'll to start one too, i love it
He talks about a start-up system costing thousands - I'm sure that's the case if you're going straight into commercial production. A simple home-system and fish providers who sell 20 or so fish at a time can get you started pretty cheap. (the rock growning medium was the most expensive outlay for me.) I'm not using a high-yield fish right now, but some local panfish and minnows I caught a few years back. I'm just testing to see how it goes.
Right there with you. Pulling away from the system is the way forward.
Aquaponics is a very good system for growing plants without soil.
No doubt your farming experience has paid off, there is a learning curve to overcome. I grow hydroponically. With your formula I figured I can run 6 - 12 4x8 beds on a 400 gl tank, is there an optimum number? Isn't the system designed to provide balanced nutrition? Do you have to add nutrients to the system? How do you change nitrogen and phosphorus levels? Would growing plants in the fish tanks improve the system?
If you set up a compost pile every 2 to 3 months with pex and some type of disconnect to change your water line from pile to pile you would never be with out hot water. I learned of this from a video of a guy using it for an outdoor shower and then came across a video of someone using at hot water heater for the floor system and figured why not combine the two.
thank's for the advice I will do that and let you know what happens thank's again!
"An initial investment for equipment can range from a few thousand dollars to several thousand..."
I started a media bed system for home use for only around $400. I think the few thousand + would be more for a commercial sized production system
Just decided to start aquaponics in the past month
i was wondering what this was , recently i went to New Mexico and this farm had a big bucket of water with fish inside it and with tubes connected to it ..i had no idea what it was then but its a great idea and system , i believe this will be our future
Does Purdue happen to have any more advanced material on this available to the public? I'm interested in methods for closing the loop as much as possible. Such as whether or not it's possible to have enough grow bed devoted to a high density, high growth crop which can be used as fodder for breeding worms or black soldier fly larva to feed the fish, whilst still having enough nutrients in the system to output a profit or sustenance crop? Also, I'm interested in any knowledge on the most efficient usage of the waste solids. I know it can be used in fertilizer but for all I know it could be dried, burnt to help warm the tanks in winter, and used to recover the essential minerals in the system.
Can I use the abdonded material to create a new aquaponics system? Will it work?
oh my! I would like to see/make this in the country where I live (Armenia)!
Hey guy I am doing a week by week indoor aquaponic video so u can see how the plants grow look up backwoodsaquaponis
Thank you!
Very informative video
very interesting video. Cheers :)
Tank You. This system is good for Brazil too.
What is the optimum exposure time for the water to MBBR and the how long will it take for the plants to absorb the nitrates?
Thanks for sharing... 👍👍👍
Excellent intro video. Where can I get more details on this setup? Would love to build one.
It is such a wonderful documentary. I want to know if Purdue University offers training online in Aquaponics and other courses in Social Sciences and Management. Thank you.
yes you can. i have just seen some forum threads of people that did it, stuff looks good, loom it up.
Very interested in this one.
I have access to an above ground pool with pump/filter etc, about 15,000 gallon pool. Can this be used for aquaponics? If so how is the waste etc pulled off the bottom since the lining is on the ground?
This would work but you must have an equal to or greater than volume of planting volume to fish tank volume for proper filtration.
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@oc00011 Composting can let off gasses that in high concentration could be bad for the plants. I wasn't familiar with the jean pain method but after checking out a video it seems like it should work. Basically you coil up pex pipe in a compost pile and then lay pex in flat coils through the GH floor and lay rock or whatever flooring you use over the pex. In the winter run the water through the compost pile to heat the floor. In the sumer run cold water through the floor to cool it.
I've read about Permaculture gardening, and its cool from a technique standpoint, theirs a couple videos on youtube about this guy in austria who farms mountains and stuff.. But I think this method of farming is cool as well.
Excellent . Do you have Modeling software
My aquaponics cost me about €50. It's basically just a home aquarium with enough bed space to grow a few plants on your desk. If I were to value all the parts I used as new, tank included I'd say it cost less than €150 tops.
@walt0783 what problems specifically can u get with indoor composting? if u read the relevant books on this, is experience still essential? the outdoor alternative u mentioned, r u referring to the 'jean pain method'?
What do we call those fish tank containers? Thats the most efficient design i see so far. With its cone shape design in the bottom, it would be easier for the physical waste of the fist to be drained. With its whole circular shape, you could create a circular current which could help the fish to be active. Simulating the water steams outside the farm.
I'm from Philippines and does anyone know where I could buy one of these :) Thanks in advance!
@JSErwine Indoor composting should be left to people with experience. It can cause a lot more problems than the simple heat problem that it solves. A simple alternative is to compost out doors and run pex pipe through it and into the GH as radiant heat. This is also a good way for an outdoor shower with free hot water. I agree with using gravity and bugs/plant life to feed fish. Hay could bring in pests to a generally sterile GH.
1 lb of fish requires 1 to 2 gallons of water and 1 gallon = 1/2 to 1 Sq. Food? Is that then the difference between growing 250 plants and 1,000 plants?
Good question which nobody has answered.
This is very interesting. Question though. Is the effluent tested for pathogen activity? Are all the microbes benign?
Kenya Goodson yes the bacteria is harmless to humans.
pathogens do not jump from fish to mammals
This can be done in a much more efficient way. Indoor composting to produce heat, gravity instead of electric pumps, plantlife to feed the fish, hay bails for winter insulation which can be composted later....etc.
it is.... Australia have been using this for years.
It very good
This video looks like it came out of the 90's. i haven't been this ready for a nap since 4th grade science class.
You really can build your backyard that won't require weeding, tilling or cultivating, the spreading of fertilizer or garden compost, without any watering or irrigating; all while your plants generate up to 10 x the amount of veggies than plants from the dirt garden.
AH! :-) Yes! Perfect! Well Done! You have hit upon the core issue here! The definition of sustainability. This requires a much longer discussion, requires more space than allowed here. Are we talking near term? Our lifetimes? 10k yrs? We'll have to move this discussion to a more free-form application that does'n count characters.
In the mean time, here's a near term question: Can you close these sysystems such that they do not rely on petrolium products or petroleum energy in any form?
a few questions, 1) what's your view on vertical growing towers in AP (aquaponics) systems? i heard people are experimenting with this 2) is there a way to have a no-electricity AP system without having to manually hand pump for many hours every day? ..and i heard ram pumps are way too much maintenance, not worth the bother 3) what dimensions/size of a greenhouse for AP system do you need to feed 30 people a diverse balanced diet every year all year round? many thanks.
how do i check the chemical and heavy metal content of the fish?
In flood and drain it all depends on if u have a timer or not. A bell siphon is the superior method he'd because your not relying on a timer to flood and drain your system. The bell siphon is automatic and floods and drains our grow bed when water level is reached.
Sweet!!
My grandparents produced most of the food by themselves and they also supplied 4 children's families yet they reached 89 years. My grandma is still living and taking care of her garden (now she works at smaller scale).
And I would like to see real statistics showing how many people are actually relaxing and innovating.
What I see around me is that most are working at least 8 hours a day to pay their bills and their food.
So...
I really liked it
If am using water filter or purifier how many days do I need to my pond water 💧
can i use this vid 4 my blog?
can i have your opinion on backyard liberty. thats how i found out about this semi-new way of farming.
Love the comment, especially the end. Those same people say they like "natural" substances in their lives, not "all those processed chemicals". To which I like to ask, "Would you slather crude oil on you? Because that's natural."
;)
@BigBearHuskyMusher you can do it for 100 bucks or less, the price he quoted on here was for store bought kits. A few kiddy pools or totes plastic containers is all you need.
@skiie you'd probably want some kind of alternative energy source to cut down on the amount of electricity you'd have to buy. Efficiencies could be wrung out of the operation...parabolic mirrors heating water or driving boilers during the day, solar panels and wind turbines driving water pumps, energy reclamation from the water flow, passive solar heating, evaporative cooling.
Do you use gravel grow beds?
Can anyone answer issues with root rot from growing in the water? I have heard this being an issue for some ppl. and they say to use the substrate. Does it depend on what you are growing? We are looking at spinach, tomato, onion, berries, and the like.
Dear University, you can give more information for I do construction, please.
Where could I find these tanks
Every state hatchery should also be doing this.
we graft apple trees because seedlings have a wide genetic expression. So, we graft from trees that produce desired fruit. We graft them onto hardy stock. Just like grafting hybrid tomatoes stocks with heirloom scions- for the hardiness of the hybrid vigor, and the nutrient,taste of heirlooms.
Is it safe to use Rubbermaid tanks for the biofilter and for the sump?
Yes as long as the plastic is hdpe or ldpe (Rubbermaid usually makes them out of those two plastics)
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Does that basil have "the claw"?
I've been a tech guy for a long time, but the older I get, the more I realize the personal benefits of things like this. I am slowly putting together my plan to become completely independent from the rest of society so that the crazy things that happen in our economy won't affect me very much. Everyone would do well to take a serious look at this, especially when you look at times like the Great Depression and Recession....
awesome!
Media filled beds are the most common method for aquaponic gardening.
I like aquaponics!
Brilliant comment adam putman!
How do you grow seedlings for Aquaponic? Pls advise.
@BooGooNFlowoo4Evoo i don't know if its possible to only use 'ram pumps' in an aquaponics system..? that would even solve the issue of electricity being needed at all for the water circulation. can u please specify what method u know of for "energy reclamation from the water flow"? in terms of evaporative cooling, r u suggesting to construct the aquaponics building as a huge 'zeer'? that would be interesting.
This is awesome. People are stupid, don't pay them attention. I'm watching this for a university class. People definitely take this stuff seriously.