Duck Pond Filter Part 1 - Duckuaponics
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 พ.ค. 2020
- The duck pond bloomed with algae after a week of the ducks bathing in it. We need to figure out how to keep this pond clean and reliable. Here is part 1 of making a working filter.
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This is really cool! I've been watching all the duck pond videos on TH-cam and this video is in my top 5 favorites.
Thank you so much!
What a cool set up, I'm curious to see what the pond will look like in the future.
I would like to add more plants in and around the pond, but i'm pretty sure the ducks will eat everything in there. I might be able to install wire around them until they get established.
Eggers n Bacon any chance of that update happening soon, please?
@@klarag7059 yep, almost done with it. Should be out tomorrow.
The first update is up now. It seems to be working pretty good so far.
Thanks for the video
Wow great idea!
Thank you. It has been saving a lot of time. I'll do some more improvements next spring.
putting some aquatic plants like reeds and water lilies should help reduce alge growth
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I like what you done. I see its been two years, hows it still working? (I seen your update vid after this as well, any changes since?)
We hatched out first ducklings 8 weeks ago and are learning lots, (7 ducks total)
I eventually want to get to your level of filtration. Currently i have 2 twenty gallon buckets, one swirl, and one full of sand. Its a daily routine to clean these buckets.
I'm wondering how you clean your system?
Can you do a vid on that?
Thanks
I have footage for an update video, just have to edit and put together.
If you send the dirty water through a basin before it goes into the filter, you'll have a great place to grow duckweed (it's all in the name) and azolla. Both love the nutrient rich water and are great protein rich foods for the ducks themselves and chickens. In fact, most animals love it. You could even cover 80 or 90 percent of that basin with hardware cloth, so your birds can graze freely on the 10 or 20% left open...
Awesome, Thank you. I was looking at adding another tub between the solids filter and the grow bed. I was thinking water hyacinth, but duck weed sounds good too!
@@EggersnBacon Try the hyacint too!
Love the set up man! I love that filter system. What type of pump are you using to transfer between the pond and filter? We’re off grid and finding a solar pump hasn’t been easy.
The pump is a Vivosun 800 gph. It is 120v, but I would like to go solar, or run off the solar system on the chicken coop. I have 45w and a battery at the coop for lights and doors. I would like to tie into that with maybe some more battery capacity.
@@EggersnBacon Do you ever get issues with the pump clogging?
look into automatic bell siphons as a solution for a self-priming pump that runs without electricity.
Would you reckon one could use a submersible pump to pump the solids into a worm farm, so the worms digest the solids which filters out a combination of worm tea(water) so then that is directed to gravel growbeds (which would later also house worms) for some veggies? I am new to this kind system and need a filtration system that optimally clears water for my ducks but also grows veggies. please assist.
I use a pump to pump the water into a solids separator that can be drained into a bucket . That could go to the worm bin I guess.
Nice video! Supporting each other here. Keep it up.
What pump do you use
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Thanks for the video. Your did not mention if you seeded your biofilter with any bacteria. Also are you doing anything to add oxygen to your pond water? Increased oxygen levels will reduce algea growth and also make sure that bad bacteria (anerobic) aren't created. Finally, its a really bad idea to add hydroponics to a duck filter system. I would reccommend that you feed the lettuces and such that you are growing in your IBC tote to your ducks and not eat it yourself.
I did not seed the filter with any bacteria. I just let it build its own. I'm curious as to why should I not eat the lettuce?
@@EggersnBacon You should think about doing that. Seeding it with bacteria will let you increase you biofilter population very quickly and will vastly increase the ammonia from the duck pee become converted to nitrates which the plants will use for nutrients.
Also the water your lettuce is growing in is surrounded by duck feces and there is a liklihood that you could get sick. Most individuals that perform duckoponics feed the plants that they grow back to the ducks and or just leave the plants and allow them naturally filter water.
smithmal I’m gonna respectfully disagree with you, citing my following conditions...I use duck pond water to water my veggie and fruit garden. I don’t get it on the plants themselves, and I bring the water to the garden, not grow directly in the water. I eat the fruit and veggies for years now and never had a health issue I could definitely attribute to duck water. Tho I seriously doubt anything would happen, I personally would flush the lettuce with non-duck water for at least a day before I harvested and ate it, I also think other plants that don’t hold so much water or that grow vegetables you eat(as compared to leaves you eat) are just fine to use right after watering with duck water.
Backyard duck pond water is not a lot different than some compost tea recipes...it’s good stuff, try it on your lawn for a few weeks and lemme know what happens ;)
@@TheFrogfeeder Interesting!
thanks for the reply. This is something we are researching.
@@TheFrogfeeder Your situation is totally different in that you're not hydroponically growing your vegetables within raw duck fecal contaminated water. That being said, if you are going to water your vegetable garden with duck pond water it is still dangerous. Most manure composts that are used in vegetable gardens should be aged 3 - 4 months to kill off pathogenic organisms before putting them in your garden. Hot compost can be used as potentially harmful organisms are due to how hot it gets within the compost due the metabolic breakdown of the organic material (gets as high as 155F; should use a thermometer to verify internal temperature).
I use sand rinsate from my duck yard in my vegetable garden, but I wait at least 3 months before growing anything in the garden. I think its fine to use duck pond water on fruit trees (no aging required). Duck pond water is extremely different from compost tea. Compost due specifically promotes the growth of specific non-pathogenic aerobic bacteria by adding tons of oxygen into the tea. You have no idea what type of bacteria is in duck poo. Some of it could be pathogenic, some could be anerobic (in which certain types of this bacteria is pathogenic). You can also have some pretty nasty pathogenic viruses in duck poo (various strains of highly pathogenic influenza). You are playing "Russian Roulette" with putting raw duck pond water on your vegetable garden.
Great info I just build a dock pond and was having a similar issue ... Just subbed would love if you'd do the same for me
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yes, I am still subbed to you. I haven't been watching as many or making as many videos lately. I have been super busy.
you just need oxygen