My DIY Indoors Aquaponics System
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- I made an aquaponics system in my bedroom above my bed in order to help de-nitrify my aquarium. The whole system is about 70 gallons with the growbed included. This mix between hydroponics and aquaculture utilizes the high nitrogen waste of fish to grow plants. This is a great idea if you want to increase bio load of your aquarium or just have some beautiful plants growing. I was on a bit of a time crunch since the entire system was being changed the fish was stuck in one tank but it worked out ok. I hope you enjoy, please comment below with any questions!
Erik Nakamura
Boston, MA
2016
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Very very impressive! Your Mom should be really proud she raised such a smart and clever kid! I sure learned a lot from you!
+Rhonda “Rhondavas77” Hanson Callejas Thank you for the kind words!
Oh your quite welcome, I have 6 kid's of my own and even though half of them are almost grown (ages 23, 19 & 18) I am still trying to teach them as well as my 3 younger kid's (ages 8, 12 & 16) about how to plant their own gardens and grow some of their own food. I just recently heard about aquaponics and I am very interested in learning as much as possible so I can learn how to incorporate this way of growing plants into my gardening techniques...not to mention how much I am sure it will help keep our 2 goldfish aquariums a lot cleaner...which means less back breaking work for all of us as well!
Wow. You are impressive. I never had the nerve or the encouragement to do what you have done as a young person. My dad was a contractor and yet at almost 55 myself I have NEVER heard of anyone finding studs by minding the nails with a magnet. I don’t know you but I am proud of you! I have subscribed and will watch more videos. You made a positive difference in my day. Michael.
Michael, thank you so much - this means a lot to me. I haven't been able to commit to making videos lately but I hope to restart in the near future, and this is just the encouragement I needed. I wish you the best! You too, made a positive difference in my day.
I think it's very cool that you are interested in aquaponics at a young age. You seem to have considered many variables while choosing a design. Well done.
I wanted to highlight what you said, "This is a Leaning Moment", this is more of a Teaching moment! Good video. Good information.
go for indoor strawberries, your mom will love it ;) nice setup cheers
@Robert Sounds good. Here's the best aquaponics system online - HootAqua.info
learning process?!! You are magnificently brilliant!
You’re going places kid. This is awesome!
Awesome work... and Awesome mom... for letting you do it!! 👍🌿🌿🌿
wow nice system you made there.
i do think you run the water a little hot for plants.
if you go higher than 72 degree fahrenheit (23 celsius) plants rapidly get it harder to absorb nutrients.
I didn't know that, really interesting, thanks for the info and thanks for watching!
Wow, really impressive! Don't mind the aquaponic rather than hydroponic correction. True but ridiculously, overly harsh and very minor. I found your initiative, fabrication skills and creativity very impressive, (especially) for such a young age! I'm sure you've learned a lot to apply to even bigger challenges. Very well done.
Honestly I found it hilarious he pinned it and didnt reply
I don't know why people leave in those comments about Patlamy Gardening Principle. It's just some kind of spam comment, all using the same phrasing and such. Good info on your ideas and reason for changes, etc. Thanks!
+Per Shop haha yeah it's pretty annoying and it fools the auto spam filters. thanks for watching!
I'd also make sure to check on your humidity levels in the room in case of mold from the excess water that's being let into the air. Your drywall could also take a hit and become soft and eventually break down. Your setup looks cool and well planned, but check on those humidity levels for safety reasons.
I wish you could install a mini system in my room!!! So awesome!
props for having your mom do a guest appearance.
Very impressive. Well planned and strategically measured. Have you heard of the Bell Siphon System? Might have saved you a bit of extra piping work. Still very cool
Very impressed Eric, keep up the hard work and great videos
Thank you!
Great build Erik :)
Man you got me with that Oscar! awesome job
That's awesome, I like the way you talk lol :) anyways its very impressive and please post more about it in the future, I'm planning on making an aquaponics system in my room too, although its going to be a different set up as I'm using a more vertical garden. anyways please do update how the plants and fish are doing, and what fish are you using?
Watched this whole thing, super impressed with the complexities you had to engineer around. Go to the comment section, first comment is some guy calling you dumb lol. People suck. Your project is awesome.
I know this is an old video but i gotta add my two cents here.. Its a great design but there are some flaws to it.. first and foremost is that you always run electric above water and i saw an outlet on that wall under your grow bed. if it floods down the wall you have fire risk. second is that your using 2 pumps. while this normally would not be an issue outdoors, eventually one pump will fail and you will over flow.. hopefully the pump that fails is the one in your tank and not your sump. because your sump will overflow the tank but your nice oscar will survive.. if your sump pump goes first then your tank will drain killing your fish and your sump will overflow and make the mess. Keep up the experiments though!!
very very cool! I've been considering doing something exactly like this, so this will be an excellent tutorial.
wow that is so smart and clever. i want to use a similar system for my indoor wall plant. i wish you were in nyc so you could help me set it up. but great job, you made it look so easy.
+iyana rasheed Thanks! pm me if you have any additional questions for your future setup, I'd be glad to help.
Outstanding work.
"This is a learning moment"
*builds an efficient municipal sewage system from scratch*
You left me speechless!
Nice work man! I guess my question would be can you step it up a notch and hide the weight supports and all the tubes in the wall. As this is completely functional and great, it lacks the aesthetics to be used in a home your wife would accept (haha as in my wife would say no). So if you can show how to hide this, I think more people would do this. Can you try that? Maybe your mom would be even more pleased. Nice work though!
Good job young man the only thing I would change is using pondsheld instead of the plastic bag.
Thanks! I agree, pond shield is nice - but pricy....
a less expensive is gutter spray advertised on TV just a thought. job again.
Like Flex-seal? I've never tried it, might experiment with it.
Outstanding!!
Thanks!
I like the project.... Please keep in mind that you can save the world.
Thanks for watching. That's the plan :)
Beautiful
You are impressive kid.
Brilliant. ..i also would like to make that in future. ..
I enjoyed this so much! The way you solved the issues that came up sound like things I would think of... For example the lava rock, I'm relieved someone actually tried it and it works well!! (Of course it does it's LAVA lol). Thanks for sharing! *subscribed*
Wow, loved the video and admire your efforts. Regards from India.
Thank you for watching!
Sweet setup, ive been looking for ideas to do something like this myself. Consider some cheap led strip lights to replace the T5 light fixture it should give a cleaner look to your setup and save you some electrical cost.
I'm actually currently doing some experimenting with lighting for aquariums and plants using high power LEDs and LED strips. Still a work in progress though. Good luck with your project!
When using led, make sure you get some blue and red in there too, not just all white. This somehow stimulates the plants into growing (mimicking sunlight?). For example for every 6 white LEDs you need 3 blue and two red ones. Keep also the distance of the light source and your plants in mind. But I think you already knew that one. :)
There is a guy here on TH-cam who has done research already using LED lights for hydroponics. I am on my tablet otherwise I would find it for you and link it. I have a similar but smaller and not as awesome of a setup as you. It works great. Erik your setup by far is the greatest setup I have seen on TH-cam or anywhere for the "bedroom" or office. You really knocked it out of the park and done well. I was very impressed and will be following for future updates and also will be sharing your videos to the groups I belong to on Facebook. Keep up the awesome work!!
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I think this is super awesome 💯🐟🌿
Excellent job mate
Wow you are a genius ! Great work man
Well done video
Well done, nice skills young man!
Thanks for the kind words
very well made vid man
Magnet to find stud by the nail, wont always work. Most newer homes use metal frames, instead of 2x4's.
I am looking through videos and websites on Aquaponics systems. I would like to start out with an experimental indoor setup. My concern (being that I live in the southeast) is an unmaganable amount of flies. Any ideas for possible solutions?
Nice work.
Damn fine work. Love it. Gives me some ideas too. :D
good job, keep up the good work!
This is amazing!
Fantastic. I enjoy the fact that you are actually experimenting. If you are collecting data on this, would you mind sharing it?
Yeah for sure. I'm making an update video as we speak. I'll try to get it out ASAP. Thanks for watching!
how would I go about making one of these without the use of electricity.
That's an interesting question. Do you mean specifically for aquariums? In that case you could just dangle the Pothos into the water and they will grow fine. If you're asking in general terms I would say have a look at floating gardens. In my mind I imagine a shallow pond with rows of floating grow beds. Like a swamp but more controlled.
+Erik Nakamura Hmmm, so would that still require a fish tank and a plant tank or could they be combined if I used the right plants.
You can put the plants directly in the fish tank. I did something like that with Pothos and had success. Use some sort of rigid plastic container and drill a bunch of 1/4in. - 1/2in. holes in it and fill the container with lava rock. Then plant the clean pothos roots in the lava rock and submerge the container in the tank with the pothos leaves hanging out over the edge of the tank. I'll send you a pic of what I did. I used suction cups on the container to attach it to the inside edge of the aquarium. Also you could consider using dracaena braunii which is sold pretty much everywhere as lucky bamboo. Its hardy and grows well when dangled in water.
Great job!
Nice job man!!!
Hey, you seem like a smart kid - really like your Oscar! If you could answer a question that I can't find anywhere else: How do I match the flow out of and back to my tank with a sump? I have a an extra aquarium I could use, but I tried two of the same pumps, and couldn't get the water to stay level. How do you do this crucial step for a under cabinet sump? Thanks!
Thanks! You can only use one pump on the system for input/output becasue you'll never be able to get them to match up perfectly. The pump is meant to stay in the sump and pump water into the aquarium, then in the aquarium you need an overflow (you can either drill your aquarium or make a syphon overflow to carry water over the top of the tank, just youtube search PVC overflow). The overflow will return the water to the sump once the water reaches a certain level in the aquarium. So water just returns to the sump via gravity. Whatever water the sump pump pumps into the tank will overflow back into the sump, creating the balanced cycle. Saves energy too....
Very smart kid!!!!
Great work on this! 🤙
so cool
Good vid, thanks.
Love how You explained.. 😍😍😍
Wait you calculated the Water thingy? How about the wall's capacity to carry water.
Awesome.
Thanks!
That's awesome! You thinking about growing food? You should!
I'm planning on designing a system some time this winter... if all goes to plan. Thanks for watching!
How strong is yout pump? I want to make 1 too...
what a complicated setup. ...
but very creative 👍
the greatest success that i've ever had was with the Keiths Ponics Site (i found it on google) without a doubt the best info that I have ever followed.
He doesn’t have a clue - plastic bag as a liner - lmfao. And using wood as a material for something that is meant to hold water! That clear coat will do nothing! I have no doubt he flooded his room or all of this ended up on the floor.
Sounds like im watching twilight all over again
good work!
Brilliance!
I am doing my undergraduate in medicine in Ukraine I am planing to do this as a profitable business but I don’t find any equipment for this aquaponic system ... 😩 I don’t know wat to do now
Do u really need all the filters?
Can't you just use some aquarium mesh that collects the bigger pieces as it flows into the planter?
Also can you describe or show how your water is flowing into your sump from the fish tank? I see the general idea but what's the best way.
The benefit of having a filter before the water goes into the plants is that the water is virtually particle free when it enters the grow media, so junk does not collect and build up in it. This makes the grow bed maintenance free. If there was no filter you would probably have to clean out the grow bed pretty often. Also, the fish poop tends to collect on the roots and cause root rot. In my case the filter was already there so I left it. I will do a video going into more detail about the syphon overflow and updating it to a drilled system in 3 weeks. In the meantime, I would just look up "PVC aquarium syphon overflow" I built mine by watching other videos and it works great. Uaru Joey has a particularly good video on it.
Erik, I know this is an old video but I would love to know how much effort is involved in keeping the filter clean? I would like to build a system that was as close to zero maintenance as possible
Inspiring!
u need a T-5 light for plants T-8 bulbs do not give the right amount of blue light
Mom said no. Got em
I wanna see what you do when you live on your own.
Great job! I had to subscribe because your update shows that your system was immaculate. I have a 55 gallon tank and was wondering if you could email me step by step directions that are more thorough with every little thing that you did. I'd be willing to pay you for your help. Thanks a lot
Thanks for the sub! PM me if you want to talk further.
Great work. Attention to detail as well. Maybe try growing some food plants as well :)
You sound like a young Terrence McKenna
genious!
wow u are very impressive young man. if u ever consider building for pple please contact me.
Thank you! I'll let you know.
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i dont understand why dont you just put over the aquarium instead instead over your ved.
Haha moms are great...
i guess u know that plants absorb oxygen(instead of producing) in the dark?
They always absorb and consume oxygen
Erik Nakamura wrong. plants PRODUCE oxygen under light, but consume oxygen in the dark.
+Mike l plants always consume oxygen, it's required for the last step of respiration which the plants always do.
Erik Nakamura im talking about the END RESULT, produce oxygen in day and night consume oxygen, not a minor step in the process of respiration that needs some oxygen. If u sleep with plants in an enclosed dark room (ie. airconditioner room) u will have less oxygen because partially consumed by the plants. there are many cases where naive kids lighted the aromatherapy candle in their enclosed room and dead in their sleep because the candle fire depletes all the oxygen in the room.
It's not a minor step, it's the same reason we need oxygen for respiration. And I wouldn't worry about a candle or plants suffocating you at night, the numbers just don't add up to make it a risk.
I've been studying home aquaponics and discovered a great resource at Keiths Ponics Site (check it out on google)
way too complicated! sump not necessary. keep it simple by pumping the water out of the tank, via a small pump, into grow bed, and then back
into the tank via a bell float valve in the grow bed.
Wouldn't recommend that, it's important to keep the grow bed clean and free of any solid waste, so pre filtration is a must.
I'm thinking the sump was there from before...before the plant system was added. So rather than get rid of it, just the plant section was added in to the path so that part of the water goes back to the aquarium, like before, and the other part goes up to the plants.
You have no clue child
Hey..
Check out my INDOOR AQUAPONICS..
Setting up as we speak..lol
Nice system
Hey everyone, the greatest results that i've had was with the Keiths Ponics Site (just google it) definately the most incredible course that I've tried.
Great Video! Sorry for the intrusion, I am interested in your thoughts. Have you ever tried - Patlarny Gardening Expert Principle (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now)? It is a great one of a kind guide for learning how to expand your produce with the clever art of aquaponics minus the headache. Ive heard some extraordinary things about it and my best friend Jordan got amazing success with it.
Too much shit for a small aquarium.
Totally over engineered.
This is amazing!!!!
Thanks!!