Aquaponics without fish? | fishless
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.พ. 2020
- How long can you keep an aquaponics system without fish? This is the topic of this video. For more information read the article on our website “Aquaponics revolution”.
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Thanks Tony
Hey glad to see you back Jonathan during my Diploma I noted any minor changes like cleaning my tanks 2 or more of my 6x 2000L tanks or adding a filter sock to reduce floating solids in system caused a crash up to two weeks after depending on water temperature.
Interesting Prcdguy, what type of fish and how many have you got?
@@AquaponicsRevolution Hey Jonathan yer during Certs 2,3,4 an Diploma Of Aquaculture where we raised rainbow trout I came across aquaponics in cert 4 as a assessment was to find alternative to water exchanges where 1500-2000L of water was being poured down the drain which in these times is a waste.
1) So I would take out 1600L an put into reserve tank out any of three systems. (BROODSTOCK, NURSERY or GROW-OUT)
2) Stop the aquaponics where water by gravity would empty into its sump an pump an replace the water I took out.
3) Once the aquaponic was nearly empty would drain reserve tank into aquaponics which then cycled throughout the aquaponics system for 24hrs until following day all NO2, NO3 an NH3 were totally removed so we could re-use the water the following day instead of the drain.
I currently have a small system but over time am building up tanks an drums aren't cheap.
I am using 12 goldfish currently once I get bigger tanks i want to get some silver perch an eventually once I get a hot house an go semi commercial get back into Rainbow trout as I know how to spawn an rear them myself.
Hi Johnatan. Hope your doing Ok. Picked my first aquaponic Vegie toady. thanks to a lot of your good advice. stay healthy
Thanks irontoad :)
Great news.
Keep us posted
@@AquaponicsRevolution will do. using yabbie shit fertalizer we grew enormous spagetti squash in soil. i connect pump to hose and pump it on directly
Thank you for your priceless videos. I wander, if we can add the fish food to the system to keep the ammonia level until we bring back our fish. Don't we use the food to cycle our new systems.
Yes, absolutely but that would be a very expensive fertilizer compared to other options
Need filter for this ?
Thanks for sharing. Do you have red wiggler worms in the growbed? What about using worm tea from vermicast?
Excellent point. Yes I do have some worms and vermicast would be great for aquaponics without fish.
@@AquaponicsRevolution thanks. Do african night crawlers also eat fish waste and chicken poop? Or only red wigglers eat that? Thanks for all your great tips and videos. 😊
this falls under the organic fertilizer part of the video, you are feeding the plants but ignoring the bacteria. i would still add some amount of ammonia to keep the engine running ( bacteria) human urine is a great free source or animal manure as he mentions. there are many ways to add ammonia even just continuing to add fish food will suffice as the bacteria will eat it as it breaks down in the solution.
@@mikesgamedomain8202 i understand your point. Feed the bacteria. Thanks. 😊
@@sunilscorpy4594 any worms still eat and poop and create waste. but red wigglers are often suggested because of the rate at which they can eat and poop.
and depending on your climate or growing conditions, some worms may be better than wigglers for your area.
Nice Lawn
Thanks ami, what about aquaponics wihtout fish? Any feedback? Cheers
Thanks this really helped. I forgot to turn off my hose during a small top up and killed my fish and bacteria from the chorine, oops. It spiked with ammonia from the dead algae and fed the bacteria I added, now ammonia and nitrites are 0. Fingerlings go in tomorrow👍.
Thanks Stewart, Good luck with yout project :)
What type of fish are you growing?
Thanks for your reply. Silver Perch as I’m in west Australia and wanted to start off with an easy fish. Guess I learned a lesson on how toxic chlorine is, I’ve revised my topping up method from this. Would be a good video for u to make if u haven’t done already
@@stewartpatrick9561 Great, yes I recommend toping up by 10% at time so that the chlorine is diluted in the volume.
Thanks for all ur great advise and sharing ur knowledge with community. I’ve learnt a lot from u and appreciate what u do, keep up the good work👍
I call it bioponics. I had two systems, one that had fish and another that I fed with bionic material like amonia and sea kelp extract as well as other things like seagrow
That's what I was about to say ... that once the fish are gone and the plants are just in water, then the system may have transitioned to some other kind of growing method, such as hydroponics where you may still feed the plants with soluble nutrients, or in this case, bioponics.
Animal manure is a desperate last effort to me. What about titrating ammonia into a system? Of course you would have to calculate the amount that would be diluted in the total system water volume. But even 5ml daily would sustain a population of bacteria in a 200 liter system.
Granted I haven't even begun to build a system yet so I don't know a lot from practical experience.
On another note do you use EC meters. I plan on a lot of aeration so I'm not concerned about dissolved O2. I've kept both fresh and salt water aquariums in the past so monitoring ammonia nitrate and nitrite are not a problem.
For micronutrients do you advise kelp extracts? What iron source do you use.
The water here is harder than granite and we only get 3 inches of rain a year so your advice to use RO water is well taken.
Iron is pH dependant
Hi Jeff, for iron I use FE DTPA. Where are you based?
Melbourne Aquaponics Yuma Arizona right where Arizona California and Mexico meet basically. With the Colorado River here there is actually a lot of agriculture in the immediate area. Dole uses the lettuce produced and Yuma County Arizona with Imperial County California have been referred to as the salad bowl of America.
If you ever saw a western with reference to the Yuma prison that's here.
you can buy bottles or gallons of ammonia from the cleaning section of a grocery store or $1 store. just measure in the amount that would be needed to keep the amount of ammonia close to 0. it means that the bacteria are eating it up . IIRC, the measurement would be taken about 24 hours later. this is the same idea as in when you are conditioning an aquarium for fish.
in this case, without fish, you don't need to be so exact about it being 0 or close to 0, but it doesn't hurt if you stay with the same practices so that later when you add fish again, the system will still be safe for them.
I'm thing to use the things I add to my garden presently. Comfry tea...harvest leaves, dry them and make tea through the winter. I also use coffee grounds, so....coffee? I am also thinking I'll grow a bunch of clover again dry for use in the winter make tea with that. I would use liquid fish fertilizer....if all the ingredients are clear or strained through cotton " tea bags" the space where I am going to do this gets cool, so I don't want fish dying....what do you think? Add some grow lights....a little heater to keep every warm enough. I have access to three fish tanks for free....so I think I'm gonna go get them...now I just need to find the space. Anyone out there have any suggestions of what I'm missing. I can also get chicken poop through the winter. Better get in the big garden ( outside ) now, but winter is coming and this sounds like a fun way to grow veggies this winter.
Hi Tracy, are you planning to go for aquaponics? If so I will recommend using a growbed, see the free training for more info: aquaponic.subscribemenow.com/
@@AquaponicsRevolution honestly not sure what I'm doing😂😂😂 just saw the free aquariums and remembered I watched a video about growing plants in them. I'd rather not use fish because the space they will be in is heated by a wood stove and I don't mind if plants die, but fish 😟 lots of research to do it's a winter project. Got the tanks yesterday...they need a good scrub😁
From Japan I am waiting
Waiting on what?
You can pee in your tank to add ammonia, it's an old topic in aquaponics, look up pee-ponics.
Actually pee in bottle an let ferment for several weeks before using raw urine contains E.coli (bacteria that gives you food poison) letting sit allows urine to break down an present E.ecoli to die off an more effective than fresh. As Jonathan said anything added that was warm blooded in regards to waste even bird poo contains E.coli.
@@prcdguyaustralia5659 Yeah, there is a difference between poop and pee though.
@@AquaponicsRevolution 👍Yer there is an if I'm using urine rather bottle it an let ferment for a bit than urinating straight into system. Rather other options than urine.
Urine contains fluids, salts and waste products but is sterile or free of bacteria, viruses and other disease-causing organisms.
Except... if you are sick like UTI or bladder infection or others sickness then yes there is e coli.
You can use urine and wood ash as a complete fertilizer. In a 20 litre bucket I pee 4 or 5 times, add a handful of wood ash, then fill with water. The ash has Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium and Iron.
I burn hard wood pallets and the nails supply the Iron. Stir and then apply it to the garden or to a fishless aquaponic system. It works for me.
How many plants can be sustained by this fertilizer combination in a 20 litter bucket?
@@briannacooper2628 It is a limitless continuous supply. Limited only by the number of buckets and number of people.
Forever. Cut a hole and that bench and put a stack of magaizes next to it.
LOL! Great answer
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I don't understand what you mean?
Aquaponic without fish is hydroponics
Yes, Hydroponics is one way to grow food with artificial nutrients and without soil. What I describe here is slightly different though