@Chirag Sharma A DIY system can start at around 100 USD (as seen at 9:45), and an industrial system can be cost-competitive because it uses much less fertilizers, pesticides, water and space than conventional farming.
@Chirag Sharma It may be seemingly expensive at the outset, but that's only for the set-up. You keep using the same pipes, the same fish, and so on. For my own, we just feed our carp/goldfish vegetable scraps to save on fish food, and if you have tilapia or cichlids they will eat almost anything edible. Also, because it is in a closed environment and with water, you don't have to deal with pests, and actually I like to put a bug light over the fish tank so that some bugs will fall into the water and get eaten by the fish. Much time is saved when harvesting. the vegetables are ready-to-eat! Some aquaponic farms have their customers just enter the warehouse and cut off leaves or take whatever they need. Then all one must do is just replace the empty slot with a new seedling. Because you can control the temperature/light/etc you will always have a reliable harvest not dependent on the weather.
I've been doing aquaponics for about 6 years now. Trying to take my systems to the next level because it just make sense. This video was hit after hit of what I've been doing and trying to do. My system if off grid and year round production!
How does the cost of your vegetables compare to vegetables bought in shops/markets? Seeing this video is the first time I have heard about aquaponics so I am curious.
@@leventeacs6371 You should probably post as a new reply instead of as a reply to my comment. FWIW though, at least with my system, it is incredibly cheap to run when you look at resource use. My system is mostly recycled materials including the batteries to run my pumps 24/7/365. Between water use, electrical needs, feed input, and supplements it is far more environmentally friendly and allows me to grow year round in a greenhouse.
@@leventeacs6371 I'll share you my experience that I have build up over the past decade with various pumps. Right now I have a 5 square yard system and a lot of plants in my fishpond. My current variable water pump from a brand that is called Aquaforte is pumping all year long at 40 watt, but it is possible to do it even more efficient. These newer type of pumps pump much more efficient compared to the older traditional pumps. When I bought my pump it was new in the market and at that time the seller did not specify which diameter pipe was best for my pump. So a bit later, after I installed my pipes and my pump, I learned that I installed a pipe that is actually a bit to wide in diameter, so therefore I need to run it a bit harder. And therefore the pump is using a bit more energy compared to a proper installed pump with the correct diameter pipe. I could solve the issue by buying a larger pump and run it at a lower flow rate, or by installing a smaller diameter pipe. But for me it is not a real issue so I leave it as it is. I also have to pump the water up a little higher compared to most other systems that I have seen so far because my sump tank is buried in the ground, and also because I use gravity for the rest of the system. That also causes a bit more use of energy. But that enables me to use a single pump for my entire system, and because of that it reduces the risk of catastrophic failures, and it makes the system much less complicated. My grow beds are connected to my fishpond. Because of that I split my water into two different flows. So that also causes a bit more use of energy. To make a long story short, I did not optimize my system for maximal food production and maximal square footage for my grow beds. Instead I created a system to keep my relative small fish pond clear and healthy while growing strawberries and a few other varieties at the same time. And I made it look somewhat pleasing for the eye, so I had to make some compromises. And those compromises reflect in a little more use of energy. But still, 40 Watt is not much compared to a small basket of fresh fruit and all the vegetables from the store, considering what you can harvest with your own dedicated system with such little use of energy. Vegetables and fruit are getting very expensive. And if your system is running very good you can grow eatable fish as well. And fish is even more expensive to buy. So it depends on how large your backyard is, and if you want to make a dedicated aquaponics system for maximal food production, but if you have space enough I roughly estimate that you can build a 20 square yard system, maybe even larger, that runs at half the energy that I am using, while it produces a lot of vegetables and fruit, and eatable fish. If you install the proper pump and pipes. Basically one solar panel and a large car battery would be more then sufficient enough to run the entire system night and day 24/7 even at cloudy days.
Would you like to share a detailed video on your setup for beginners like me? So that we can install an efficient system with experiences you had .thanks
Aquaponics, agro forestry, permaculture, seaweed farming, natural sequence farming and so many others. I think all these techniques and methods needs to implemented at various levels so that the destructive industrial farming can be diminished to whatever level we can achieve really. Diversification and decentralization is the key. We do this and bang bang! Although I am certain that the change won't be as smooth as we think and the only reason I can think of is that people are just too tired to try new(they are old but not known to many) techinques in farming. Hope this changes.
@@williambrandondavis6897 um I'm from India. In India, the suicide rate of farmers is the highest in the world. It's one of the biggest political issues in India right now. Most of the people are leaving farming for a better life. Maybe I'm not a farmer but I do know pretty closely what's its like for not so rich farmers to lose their crops by erratic rains which are prevalent in India by the way. But I guess you clearly are not in for it, maybe you're one of those big industrial farmers so that makes sense. But if you're just some other dude on internet who doesn't know anything he's talking about then I would say with pretty please, with sugar on top, eat shit
@@williambrandondavis6897 also, I never said its going to change completely conventional farming,rather my focus was on the diversification and decentralization. A bunch of greedy corporations deciding what's best food for me, nah. Fuck em.
Basically if you want to make good food free from too many human inputs... it has to mimic a robust ecosystem as close as possible. With the right amount producers, consumers, decomposes all interacting with inorganic components of the system and an energy source. the more biodiverse a system is the more robust it is. Thats why monoculture doesn't work in the long run.
My aquaponics system is biodiverse, and it has all the components that nature provides. In fact that is the whole idea behind aquaponics. If it weren't a closed loop system it would not even work.
Hello. If they took the plants in that ecosphere, the nutrients in that sphere would reduce over time because they took the plants. The quality and quantity produced over time would reduce. Edit: ohhh... Fish in a tank produce poo. Poo water nurture in some thing. Poo water go to water farm. You just need to feed fish.
@@youngguywastinghislife2084 You forgot an important step in the biological process of the system because you do not understand how it works. But I will give it a shot and try to teach you something about aquaponics. You feed the fish, the fish pee and poo, and after that the ammonia and other chemical components from the fish waste get converted by bacteria into nutrients for the plants. So as long as you keep feeding the fish, there will be a constant stream of nutrients for the bacteria, and they will create a constant stream of nutrients for the plants :-) And so once in a while you need to ad some minerals in order to keep the water hardness and the PH at an optimal level for the bacteria, the fish, and the crops that you want yo grow. Those minerals that I am talking about is not food for the living organisms, but those minerals make it possible for the living organisms to process their food. It is needed to keep their system going. Such an additive can be sea weed extraction, or molasses, or some other natural existing component that does the trick. Fish food can be anything, living insects and larvae, different types of worms, water fleas, or mosquito larvae, or dried food such as dried insects and larvae, or other dry food. And all that food can be grown easily, and locally, and with waste bio mass from the crops, or the water from the system, at high volumes and very low costs, with a constant rate. The reason why an aquaponics system is so effective is not because it is some sort of magic, but because it uses very low energy to grow vegetables and proteins at the same time, at high yields, in a very small space. And it produces almost zero CO2 emissions, and it reduces the need for fresh water by 80%, and it takes away the need for fertilizers and pesticides because both would kill the bacteria and therefore the whole system. And it is very reliable, and the harvest is all year long. And there is no need for weeding, so there is very little time spend on maintaining the system and the crops. And there is virtually no risk for undesired weather influences. Unless there is a tornado or other natural disaster. It is only logical once you understand the biology behind it. Fish use the heat from the water as an energy source to digest their food, that means that they do not have to use the energy from their food source to heat up their body and digestive system, and therefore fish can use all the energy from their food source to grow their body. Fish do also not waste any energy from their food source on staying upright or to stay warm. And the diet from a fish contains much more proteins compared to the diet from a cow or other livestock. And fish do not fart as much as cows or other livestock. And fish do not create any harmful fine dust. It will never fully replace conventional farming because you can't grow certain crops with an aquaponics system. But other crops do extremely well with this system. So there you go, I hope that that you have learned something from it :-)
@@insAneTunA Thanks for the detailed explanation. I was looking at it at a wrong angle. I was looking at it as a closed system. Like a Biosphere. So there is input and output. What you are saying is.. You feed fish. Fish poop. Fish poop good for plant. Fish poop go to water plant. It is low cost, low effort, high efficiency farming strategy. This strat doesn't get plants penalty when it is planted in different season. This farming strategy doesn't affect or fasten the global warming event. Fish is a great animal to rear because of low cost if the water is in optimal condition. It produces fish meat and poop that can be fertilizer. Fish is a versatile low cost high efficiency organism.
Already doing this to grow salad vegetables. Food tastes better when you worked hard for it. Saving up some money to incorporate solar panels to save on electricity. The environmental scientist in me is happy watching these videos.
Wow! Amazing video! I'm a student of Fishering Engineering in Brazil and I love studying about aquaponics systems in other places! I hope my country invests more and more in projects like this.
The CO2 footprint of food transportation only represents 6% of the emissions.. Right now, farming with artificial lights rarely is "better", because the energy production often comes with fossil fuel emissions. It is really interesting because of the low water consumption - I'd be curious to see it happen on greenhouses
And we can store them in huge tower to save even more space and build said towers on the ocean so the waste produced can be used to grow algae and feed more fish
@@jeremiahlunario4889 because we pay for it? Every household in Germany has to pay around 20 Euro per month so they can burn money with stuff like this. They get 8 billion Euro tax money plus ads on TV.
Just a small note: tax money is not the same as the broadcasting fee. But in the result you are right, we (DW) are paid by the taxpayers (directly). The other ARD stations are paid via the broadcasting fee.
I like this concept. There could be several indoor farms in the city that grow crops of their choice, and they can also sell it right next door. No need to transport the vegetables to the store if they grow in the store. Allows us to disturb nature less and reuse resources very well.
You legitimately cannot do this with every crop. Root veggies don't do well in hydroponics and aquaponics. We need a hybrid style. Hydroponics and aquaponics are very good, but not a solution to all plants we eat.
@@phil_matic as a person, try to think of the Billions of people that depend on this industry, and what this earth endures to supply this industry. Some eat this daily... when does it end? Synthetic meat to supply the demand!?!
I’ve been doing hydroponics on my balcony for more than a year now. It’s a stress reliever and i could get bunch of fresh and healthy veggies whenever i want. I have a plan to build aquaponic. The only problem is money lol
I have used my fish tanks and ponds to grow plants since the 1980s I know a good num of plants and fish- crustation types that do well in such systems I also use vermiculture. It's part of the cycle that's needed that this video doesn't consider.
My aquaponics system works great, and it uses 40 watt of power. Fresh strawberries every single day, and they taste sweet, fresh and juicy. I also have chive, reddish, bay leave, dragon herb, and a few other varieties.
@Ross- A -Roni It is not bullshit, I have my system running for years, and I am quite happy with it. But I use gold fish instead of eatable fish. For me it is a hobby.
Disney World has an aquaponics research center and their Chiquita Banana ride takes you on a tour of it. Got to be honest, that was my favorite thing in Epcot. I thought it was so cool and such a good idea for both vertical growing and sustainable farming with both fish and vegetables.
I think an important piece left out is that aquaponics should be applied when applicable. Simply putting fish in farms won't work everywhere. In areas with access to water it's a great idea as Japan has already shown. In areas without access to waters like the desert states in the US, it will only strain water resources further. Desert states already lose millions of gallons from exposed water moving through aqueducts and canals, agriculture, and green golf courses.
This is a fantastic concept. Currently, I am in the UAE, working closely with a large aquaponic system in Ras-Al-Khaimah. One of the most significant challenges for a large-scale system like this is the substantial initial capital expenditure (CAPEX) and high energy costs associated with it. Considering the requirement for a substantial amount of fish and the need for pumping a significant volume of water, large-sized pumps are necessary. This issues are translated in a higher price of crops compared to the ones you buy in the supermarket.
One of my friends has a home made aquaponics system at her house. She built it and grows veggies on top and edible fish in the enormous water tank. She gave me some of her tomatoes, they were incredibly delicious.
There are a lot of people who do not seem to understand why this aquaponics system is so efficient, and how it actually works from a biological perspective, and some people come up with all sorts of self created nonsense. So allow me to explain it in a bit more detail. You feed the fish, the fish pee and poop, and after that the ammonia and other chemical components from the fish waste get converted by bacteria into nutrients for the plants. So as long as you keep feeding the fish, there will be a constant stream of nutrients for the bacteria, and they will create a constant stream of nutrients for the plants :-) There are different aquaponics systems, the flood and drain systems also ad nitrogen automatically to the roots from the crops, and that nitrogen comes naturally from the surrounding air that we breath. And so once in a while you need to ad some minerals in order to keep the water hardness and the PH at an optimal level for the bacteria, the fish, and the crops that you want yo grow. Those minerals that I am talking about is not food for the living organisms, but those minerals make it possible for the living organisms to process their food. It is needed to keep their system going. A bit like what a gearbox does for a car. Such an additive can be sea weed extraction, or molasses, or some other natural existing component that does the trick. Fish food can be anything, living insects and larvae, different types of worms, water fleas, or mosquito larvae, or dried food such as dried insects and larvae, or other dry food. And all that food can be grown easily, and locally, and with waste bio mass from the crops, or the water from the system, at high volumes and very low costs, with a constant rate. The reason why an aquaponics system is so effective is not because it is some sort of magic, but because it uses very low energy to grow vegetables and proteins at the same time, with high yields, in a very small space. And it produces almost zero CO2 emissions, and it reduces the need for fresh water by 80%, and it takes away the need for fertilizers and pesticides because both would kill the bacteria and therefore the whole system. And it is very reliable, and the harvest is all year long. And there is no need for weeding, so there is very little time spend on maintaining the system and the crops. And there is virtually no risk for undesired weather influences. Unless there is a tornado or other big natural disaster. It is only logical once you understand the biology behind it. Fish use the heat from the water as an energy source to digest their food, that means that they do not have to use the energy from their food source to heat up their body and digestive system, and therefore fish can use all the energy from their food source to grow their body. Fish do also not waste any energy from their food source on staying upright or to chew on their food all day long. And the diet from a fish contains much more proteins compared to the diet from a cow or other livestock. And fish do not fart as much as cows or other livestock. And fish do not create any harmful fine dust. It will never fully replace conventional farming because you can't grow certain crops with an aquaponics system. But a very wide range of crops do extremely well with this system. So there you go, I hope that that you have learned something from it :-)
Plants need about 17-20 minerals and micronutrients. Does aquaponics provide this? One of the problems with hydroponics is that the plants lack the nutrients and taste bland as well as not being so beneficial.
@@davidjma7226 Short answer is no, the minerals and the taste are not a problem at all. It all depends on your local external factors and the setup. But I have to apply some minerals to my system, because for some minerals, not all, there is no natural supply. Which is true for every fishpond. And I have an outdoor system so the rain and the heavy nitrogen pollution in my country changes the water values, and I have to compensate for that so that the water hardness stays at the correct level. That is to keep the micro organisms happy, and the roots from the plants also need a certain amount of water hardness otherwise they simply stop growing. My flood and drain beds are filled with volcanic rock, so there are many minerals available, just not all. I also added worms to the system. The food from the fish brings minerals to the system. And because I have an outdoor system some minerals are supplied naturally by the birds, but also by thunderstorms, and by the wind, and so on. Also some left over bio mass from leafs and such will remain in the system and it will be converted into plant available nutrients by the micro organisms and worms. When it comes to taste I have no problems at all. The strawberries that I pick from my system taste delicious, and it is not comparable with what you can buy in the store. But that is mainly because they have to pick the strawberries a little too soon otherwise they become too ripe and too weak for transport. I can pick them when they taste at their sweetest, and I do not have to worry about transport. I transport them straight to my belly if the birds do not beat me to it :-) I also have garden crest, and chive, and it all tastes awesome. I do not have much personal experience with other crops because I like to experiment, and in the first years I had to get familiar with the system, and work out the problems and improve things. Like making it winter proof so that things do not get clogged during the winter so that I loose a lot of water, which has happend to me. And more of that sort of stuff. And my personal main goal is not to produce as much food as possible. I created this system to keep my pond clear, and to fulfill my personal curiosity. For me it is a hobby, and everything that I grow is for fun. And a substantial part gets eaten by the birds. Although I am in the middle of creating a cage so that in the future I can keep the birds out so that I can eat my own strawberries :-) The most important factor for every form of food production is the micro organisms. You can put all the nutrients in whatever grow medium you like, but if there are no micro organisms, or not enough with enough diversity, those nutrients will be useless and in many cases even work against a growing plant, and attract pests and diseases. The micro organisms make the nutrients available for the plants. They do all the important work. And when they are happy with the conditions where they live, and when they can do their very important work in the most optimal conditions, your veggies and fruits will taste delicious. So it is very important to know your local conditions and what might cause problems to your system and the micro organisms if you would not address it. But at the same time not all crops are suitable for an aquaponics system. And your local climate is an important factor as well. But the taste is not an issue at all :-)
@@insAneTunA Interesting - thanks for such a comprehensive answer. Sooo true about microbes too. I think there are about 6bn of them in a handful of soil and so many soils are sub par or simply barren without them. I represent a brilliant mineral fertilizer, certified organic with limitless supply. Owned by one commercial farmer, we practice the preachings of Neal Kinsey an eminent soil scientist. Obviously since fert prices 3x'd we have been quite busy. We are just moving into hydro and aquaponics/vertical farming in the Middle East as it can be supplied in aqueous format. It's a very interesting sector and a step away from our traditional broadacre farming base but farming is different in the desert! Congrats on everything you have achieved so far. Good to hear those strawbs are tasting as they should. Cheers.
@@davidjma7226 Well the whole idea behind aquaponics is to eliminate fertilizers all together. Fertilizers are a big no no. The fish in the system provide all the nutrients that are needed. And when it comes to soil based food production I do not recommend people to use fertilizers either. Instead I would recommend them to use the principles from permaculture, and the teachings from Dr. Elaine Ingham about organic farming and soil health. She is a scientist who knows everything about healthy soil. And I also would recommend them to learn from Dr. Johnson and his wife Su who came up with the Johnson and Su bio reactor. And I would also recommend people to watch the channel from Charles Dowding, an expert in organic food production without digging or tilling the soil, and with wood chips to cover the soil and to provide lots of habitat for micro organisms. Fertilizers are bad for plants and the micro organisms, and they attract pests and diseases. I would never ever recommend people to use fertilizers. No matter where they live, and no matter what system they use.
I think you may be using too narrow/limited definition of fertilizer. The waste created by the fish and plants is used as a large part of the fertilizer/nutrients needed. Fertilizer can be/often is from natural sources, and need not be toxic or disruptive.
I have constructed and put into operation my own personal at-home aquaponics system, which is inside my greenhouse. One big issue I have is that I have to account for very hot weather - thus cooling the greenhouse and for very cold weather - thus heating the greenhouse and the water for the fish. Such preparations takes electrical power as well as propane consumption for use within the propane air heater. The only way I can cool the greenhouse is using electrical fans and open the greenhouse's windows.
Thank u for a great video. I believe this is the way most of our food will be grown, although I prefer the bio-digester aeroponic system, which most farmers shy away from because it is technology-dependent, where a technical fault can lead to expensive crop fallers. This is a challenge for me.
Plz make more videos about the nexus - water, food and energy in the urban context. To debunk the technique and challenges that we are facing today is really necessary among the public. Love this channel and hope the channel’ll reach to million of ppls.
I interest to the fish farm and hydrophonic. I see in this channel, the technic was insane, hopefully I can learn to aquaphonic factory in this video and make the same factory in my country so that's can make high quality of the food at my country. But I know who am I, just small people who can't to the other country 🙂
Im with this way of growing food. This will work with many crops but not all. Many can be install around large cities and Several near medium to small city/towns.
In India we have these systems from a long time and i wonder others think that they should introduce these systems to our country. Indian aquaponic and hydroponic systems are huge farms as big as the size big shopping malls and there are multiple farms where we grow prawns, shrimps , crabs, oysters for pearls, fishes , exotic fruits and vegetables along with greens on land and now a days many farms even grow spirulina which many of them have never even heard of which means biomass of cyanobacteria which can be consumed by humans for high energy and rich in protein and nutrients
I would like to see a wider variety of fruits and vegetables grown this way. Most people have leafy greens as a very small part of their diet and most don’t provide much macronutrients.
Some critical notes: What the video doesnt really mention is that fish need food. So basically, instead of applying fertilizer directly, the fish are fed and their poo is used as manure. So there definetely are inputs, but it is a different type of input. In the end the plants need just as much fertilisers as they otherwise would, so you need at least an equal amount of fish food plus some extra because the fish consume some of it. I dont know if producing fish food instead of fertilisers is really more environmently frienly and cost effective. It would probably be worth it if you can sell the fish, but you can only grow fresh water fish as crops cannot grow on salt water. Furthermore the system is not applicable for many staple crops because it operates in greenhouses, but prices for maize and wheat dont allow these crops to be grown in greenhouses. For small scale projects like the ones shown in the video it is super cool and effective, but on a larger scale you would face some problems: fish food doesnt come raining down the sky, you would quickly saturate the market's demand for fresh water fish, and only a variety of crops can be grown in the system. Oh, and you need a lot of protocols to prevent diseases from entering the greenhouse. But maybe there are ways to work around these problems to make it more widely applicable.
Fish food is pretty easy to come by if the fish eat only algae and plants (like tilapia). Fish that primarily eat insects, earthworms, or maggots would also be easy to raise since bugs can be reared on refuse plant matter.
Aquaponics is amazing! I love these concepts, Aquaponics, vertical indoor farming, permaculture, agroculture, I really believe that through such changes, we can avoid the devastating progress of our economy. I think this system of aquaponics should be highly used in fish farming, if possible. Because, since the water is highly cleaned through the plants, more healthy and less antibiotic infested fish could be delivered to the market. And the oceans may could regenerate, improving todays situation.
Yup. They absolutely do not want to show it. It's the hidden cost of this busines$. Massive wheat and soy farms needed to feed these fish. You literally get less food in return becuase you're not using the massive wheat and soy farms to feed people. Science law: Trophic levels.
@@ZetaGhozt I'm not sure I follow. Freshwater fishes like tilapia eat plants,larvae and insects in the wild. The only inputs I need are food waste and sunlight.
@06:54 No one mention throughout the video about the feeding of the fish. It's not really a closed loop system. Just like when you hear someone bragging they went off grid in their tiny house, but then you see they use propane for cooking and heating...
I have always been impressed by the Netherlands even before I knew about their advancements in eco technology. You would think we in the US would have learned from them among others on how to farm more sustainably, but we are still pouring gallons and the Danes are using ounces.
There is no sustainable practice as of now due to the fact that such a small percentage of the population feeds the mass majority. The only sustainable method is more people in farming, and better optimize less than trying to do more.
@@Moon_Cricket_Stinks If you are looking to increase the number of people dedicated to agriculture, it is because your system is not optimized. Being optimized means doing better with less resources. In addition, the primary sector is very sensitive to price, if we return to a system intensive in human labor, prices increase and your alternative is not economically viable compared to conventional products.
@@dohc1067 better optimization as in not tasking complete food production to so few. 2% of the US population is in agriculture. So take the current population and calculate 2%. They're tasked with not only feeding the remaining 98%, but also doing in a fashion that keeps food cheap, long shelf life, and of good quality. On top of that, agricultural commodities create the most export GDP for US. Europe's population ratio to agriculture is much higher, plus majority of European food consumption comes from importing since its a rich union. In terms of optimization there comes a point where overtaxation to compensate demand creates systems that are wasteful due to the fact time, and resources for being more optimized is not reachable. For example, growing 20,000 acres of potatoes to yield any kind of profitable value requires use of aerial application of fertilizer, pesticide, and irrigation being delivered by gigantic center pivot towers. 20,000 acres isn't big compared to 100,000s of acres in Idaho. The Ogallala aquifer suffered due to 9ver irrigation to create mass scale monocrop farms. Yet at grocery stores Idaho potatoes, like almost all plant foods, are a couple bucks. Trying to manage 100,000s of acres of potatoes with a handful of people requires wasteful practices, since manpower is limited. Americans, like much of the world, hate farming as it is a very difficult job, completely weather dependent l, and doesn't yield $$$ like other careers. Yet everyone needs to each, and buy clothing (granted the textile mills are other countries, but alot of cotton farms in the Bible belt still exist). In China due to such a high percentage of farmers and low fertile land availability, each one grows on 1 hectare. Too little space also creates inefficient practices which is opposite problem. Up until the invention of synthetic fertilizers (urea), other than bad management practices that created the dust bowl, people left farms for urban sprawl to get a better career that yields more money for less work. Yet all still depends on the supermarkets which depends on the farmers. Fortunately, more people like to garden which is a small step in the right direction. But until a sizable percentage actually gets into farming, the 2% will continue to be tasked with producing cheap, long lasting, abundant food.
Great way to have food reserves and learn a lot about farming. I disagree with the synthetic lights. Running pumps constantly etc using a lot of electricity still not the most productive. But it is amazing and great to add on to an ecosphere outdoors:-)
Oh, no we use 10 Liters of water for 100g of fish and 500g of tomatoes, and let us just not mention all the additional inputs required, because that would be to complicated.
What additional inputs are too complicated for you tho? Besides fish spawn, food for the fish, heating/cooling, water oxygenation, (probably) some nutrients, micro-organisms that break down the fish droppings and maybe a ph balance once in a while. Every indoor cannabis grower laughs at you if you find that too complicated!
This is a great idea but can be improved. You have to do this outdoors using natural sunlight and growing crops that can handle the summer / winter cycles for best efficiency. If you are clever about choice of fish/frogs and other livestock you won't need to use pesticide either.
Indoors with controlled light spectrum is more efficient. Plants do not need 'sunlight' to grow. They can also get too much sun which will slow their growth.
@@TsLeng Which makes sense, as to why they're doing this project in the Netherlands. Smaller country, with less resources and land to work with. And the same reason why Europe has had a lot of technological advancements for hundreds of years. Because they had no choice, but to be creative. And develop innovations.
@@priestesslucy It does mimic nature very close. And it doesn't work if the bacteria are not happy. The main focus from an aquaponics system must be the bacteria. If they do well all the other components do well too.
Hmm... the thumbnail looks like a pink greenhouse (pinkhouse?), not sure what aquaponics is, let's take a look! After watching: Oh, it's basically my backyard indoor version! lol
I'm doing it at home too. I personally don't use fish because I can't eat them due to my allergies. So I use special fertilizers in my water and achieve good results with it. But I especially think it has great potential in the future even for crops you currently don't really see farmed like this yet like grains, corns some berry bushes and in a place like it was shown in the first few seconds I might have even thought about having a second layer for growing. We also could help to promote facilities like that in regions that struggle with food and water and teach the people there how to use them so they have a stable way to farm for food all year long might be better than just sending them food in the long run.
I wonder how Covid affected them. I mean instalation and energy costs are huge. But when restaurants have been closed due to the lockdown it must have created new issues. Still the technology is quite well-known and have potential.
Very interesting idea. It obviously works but requires so much infrastructure, maintenance, and labor. If you just grow 20 cheap veggies like Phood Farm is doing, I don’t see any way they are turning a meaningful profit. Still a very worthwhile effort!
If you use a fish breed that also works as a cost efficient food source, that would be where good chunk of money will come from due to price of fish on the market.
@@thejestor9378 possibly. I don’t know the economics of fish market to judge how profitable it might be. Fish can be very hard to maintain because of water temperature and pH level requirements plus electricity to keep it all going. Disease could be an issue too. Idk. Farming live fish seems expensive too but maybe there is enough profit to make it worthwhile!
@@NadyaPena-01 there is.. I am straight to telling you it is. The problem is what type of fish, and ensuring you can maintain a breeding stock of them within the aquaponics farm as well.
Is the styrofoam used organic? Does your system use plastic, maybe in the pipes? I see fans and lights. What is the source of power for these? What are the fish fed, a natural diet? Many fish farms produce toxic fish.
I don't have the answers to your questions, but I am glad that you're asking them. We need new technologies to save the planet. But we can't just welcome every new tech as the thing that will save us all. We need to ask the difficult questions to figure out if new technology will actually help us, or do more harm down the line. I think this is promising, but some of the concerns you have are valid, and need to be figured out, before we can implement this on a larger scale.
Thank you for these amazing possibilties that will need to be publicaly available to give hope to saving this planet from us and all of the innocent creatures that live here too.
I find this work amazing! Its so cool how there are so many better ways of farming! Thanks for this video. Just one question, where does the fish come from for farming? An idea regarding aquaponics cant produce everything is to combine all sustainable farming methods. Eg agroforestry, vertical farming, aquaponics, etc. Thanks!
The fish usually come from hatcheries that breed types that work well for aquaponics, like tilapia, catfish, or trout.🐟 They’re easy to raise in controlled environments and do well in systems where the water keeps circulating. We also have a video on agroforestry, did you check it out yet? 👉 ruclips.net/video/cfvYL-Acyec/видео.html
Instead of lights, we should have mirror arrays that capture sunlight from the roof and diffuse/distribute it to the plants below. Cut costa majorly and allow for larger scale. Thoughts?
Considering billionaires are buying up farmland.... maybe they can actually do some good, but my hopes are idealistic lolol But for real, they have the money, considering amazon now has stores... I don't doubt they will get into agriculture too
The easiest way to reduce the bad impact of agriculture is to stop/reduce meat consumption. Over half of the food produced by agriculture goes to feed animals. It take many pounds of plants per pound of meat. All those problems and extra stuff with fish can be avoided if we just eat plants.
This is false When we grow corn, we do not consume the by products of that corn like the stems and leaves, this is used as animal feed as we humans do not consume it. Should we consume less meat? Probably, but to say that meat consumption is completely to blame is not true
True. I agree. The parts of the plant humans can’t eat are fed to cows. But animals are also fed grain mixtures. A majority of their nutrition is grain meal (made out of soy, corn, etc). That grain meal could feed way more humans than the meat and milk from that cow will. The corn refuge that humans can’t eat can be ground up and used as base for Mushrooms. Even better, it can be composted and used as fertilizer. But no, let’s feed to cows, inject them with antibiotics and hormones, fatten them up, make them lactate 10 gallons of milk a day (btw Cows used to naturally produce only 1-2gallons a day) with no regards to the suffering it goes through with its fat udders.
@@shepherds314 and OF COURSE there is no middle ground between "eating only vegetables" and "force feeding cows with antibiotics and vitamines to fatten them and make them yield 10 gallons of milk per day". The other guy talked about eating "less meat", which sounds reasonable and allows for a smaller imprint and a more sustainable agriculture but still giving us the benefits of eating meat and dairy products, and you just jump to both extremes to build a nice staw man that "those in favor of eating meat are crazy psychopaths who only want animal suffering".
@@takix2007 I never called anyone a psychopath. I also suggested 'stop/reduce meat consumption' in the very first line of my argument. The part about 'calling meat eaters Psycopaths' came from you. Do an introspection, is that what you think of meat eaters?. Speaks volumes about the cognitive dissonance people experience.
@@shepherds314 guess my reply was more about your own reply than about your original post. My bad. The part about "animal killing psychos" has nothing to do with my inner self, and everything to do with frequent vegan extremist rethoric. Don't try to Freud me into weird beliefs...
Great vision ! Instead of this aquaponic ( raising fish and growing good food) , here in Tasmania salmon farms are polluting the estuaries and bays with huge fish farms producing fish made toxic by the extensive use of chemicals to keep the operation going ....
I’m a biologist with a focus on plant & soil science (I love planting trees), but I’m infatuated with this system. I recognize that the future of vegetable production are these types of greenhouses. It’s a wonderful thought because of the conservation of natural resources and how healthy the food is. There’s a lettuce aquaponics greenhouse being built here in my small city and I can’t wait to visit! #SaveForests #SaveOceans #ReduceFossilFuels #RenewableEnergy #SaveEarth
@@Warrior_warlock Those arent the only kind of fish you can use to do this. Also integrating this vertically is the future. Plenty of better videos than this out there explaining vertical farming and aquaponics. This video feels like it was made in the 90's so far behind what we have already been doing for 20+ years. Now we just need to do it on a larger scale.
@@soundsofnature7015 Idk if vertical is the future. I’m skeptical because the weight of the water, maybe it could vertical underground instead? I’m not sure
I had made a small green house kitchen farm to use in kitchen for science exhibition in india, gorakhpur when I was in 5th grade cost me about 100 $ and have planted some chilli tomato and coriander.
the biggest thing in aquaponics is how and what you feed the fish. The fact that this 13 minute video skipped this issue in aquaponics literally makes all the information incomplete 10 liters of water and a fish makes a tomato? haha don’t make me laugh! 10 kilo’s of mixed fish feed (grown on original farms) and water make the tomato
We primarily want to present/show the procedure and not the detail work. This is also the reason why we have referred to DYI videos on this topic in our description text.
I think it's more about reducing the impact agriculture has, not really ending farming as a whole. It wouldn't be possible to get rid of farms without other solutions already in place (like aquaponic/hydroponic/whatever systems) But also, if our demand for food increased, farms as they are now wouldn't be sustainable.... They already aren't (as far as their impact) I live out in the sticks with small time farmers and whatnot.... I get to see happy cows n chickens n whatnot, so I don't hate farming or anything... But I do see the perks in these systems. Especially when used together
@@Notanothercrayon I have my own outdoor aquaponics system for around 10 years, there is not much more to develop. Fact of the matter is that certain crops can't be grown with this system due to the nature of the crops and the system. But due to the nature of an aquaponics system we can replace a substantial part of traditional agriculture and mono culture, and it is possible to do it indoors inside a multilevel building, with a much higher efficiency, and with a far smaller footprint, and with far less harmful emissions, and with far less water usage, without destroying nature and without reducing the wild insect, and wild bird, and wild plants population. An aquaponics system also reduces the amount of nitrogen in the air.
I agree and am using this in my model to end homelessness and hunger, while achieving so much more. Hopefully soon everyone will have heard about my new nonprofit organization, and the concept behind it. Thompson Family Homestead inc.
Reading about history and how a lot of the farming done in America had to be engineered. Corn, wheat, even cattle could not survive Texas and Oklahoma heat so we made some that could. It’s about time that our farms changed if that’s aquaponics or what the Netherlands are doing right now.
my perspective since years have been that, we really ignore the relationship of soil to plant life? I can relate this way-of-growing crops to hundreds of chicken raised in a closed farm (bio or non-bio). I wonder, we celebrate growing plants as mere commodities than a living being.
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Have you heard of aquaponics where you live, or would you like to try it?
@Chirag Sharma A DIY system can start at around 100 USD (as seen at 9:45), and an industrial system can be cost-competitive because it uses much less fertilizers, pesticides, water and space than conventional farming.
I've heard of it but am unaware of any projects in my surroundings.
@Chirag Sharma It may be seemingly expensive at the outset, but that's only for the set-up. You keep using the same pipes, the same fish, and so on. For my own, we just feed our carp/goldfish vegetable scraps to save on fish food, and if you have tilapia or cichlids they will eat almost anything edible. Also, because it is in a closed environment and with water, you don't have to deal with pests, and actually I like to put a bug light over the fish tank so that some bugs will fall into the water and get eaten by the fish.
Much time is saved when harvesting. the vegetables are ready-to-eat! Some aquaponic farms have their customers just enter the warehouse and cut off leaves or take whatever they need. Then all one must do is just replace the empty slot with a new seedling. Because you can control the temperature/light/etc you will always have a reliable harvest not dependent on the weather.
Get rid of this music guys!!
and i forgot the water pump, that you need to double in case of problem !!!!!
Im a preschool teacher and this is a project that Im doing with my students right now! Our lettuces have grown so well. We love it!
What lucky students, I’m sure you’re a phenomenal teacher! Keep it up!
Pls change your dp teacher
Don't they have any negative health effect on us?
@@test-pb3xs no this style is completely organic and healthy
how do u filter all waste from water, i want to try it too
I've been doing aquaponics for about 6 years now. Trying to take my systems to the next level because it just make sense. This video was hit after hit of what I've been doing and trying to do. My system if off grid and year round production!
How does the cost of your vegetables compare to vegetables bought in shops/markets? Seeing this video is the first time I have heard about aquaponics so I am curious.
@@leventeacs6371 You should probably post as a new reply instead of as a reply to my comment. FWIW though, at least with my system, it is incredibly cheap to run when you look at resource use. My system is mostly recycled materials including the batteries to run my pumps 24/7/365. Between water use, electrical needs, feed input, and supplements it is far more environmentally friendly and allows me to grow year round in a greenhouse.
@@leventeacs6371 I'll share you my experience that I have build up over the past decade with various pumps. Right now I have a 5 square yard system and a lot of plants in my fishpond. My current variable water pump from a brand that is called Aquaforte is pumping all year long at 40 watt, but it is possible to do it even more efficient. These newer type of pumps pump much more efficient compared to the older traditional pumps.
When I bought my pump it was new in the market and at that time the seller did not specify which diameter pipe was best for my pump. So a bit later, after I installed my pipes and my pump, I learned that I installed a pipe that is actually a bit to wide in diameter, so therefore I need to run it a bit harder. And therefore the pump is using a bit more energy compared to a proper installed pump with the correct diameter pipe.
I could solve the issue by buying a larger pump and run it at a lower flow rate, or by installing a smaller diameter pipe. But for me it is not a real issue so I leave it as it is.
I also have to pump the water up a little higher compared to most other systems that I have seen so far because my sump tank is buried in the ground, and also because I use gravity for the rest of the system. That also causes a bit more use of energy.
But that enables me to use a single pump for my entire system, and because of that it reduces the risk of catastrophic failures, and it makes the system much less complicated.
My grow beds are connected to my fishpond. Because of that I split my water into two different flows. So that also causes a bit more use of energy.
To make a long story short, I did not optimize my system for maximal food production and maximal square footage for my grow beds. Instead I created a system to keep my relative small fish pond clear and healthy while growing strawberries and a few other varieties at the same time. And I made it look somewhat pleasing for the eye, so I had to make some compromises. And those compromises reflect in a little more use of energy.
But still, 40 Watt is not much compared to a small basket of fresh fruit and all the vegetables from the store, considering what you can harvest with your own dedicated system with such little use of energy. Vegetables and fruit are getting very expensive. And if your system is running very good you can grow eatable fish as well. And fish is even more expensive to buy.
So it depends on how large your backyard is, and if you want to make a dedicated aquaponics system for maximal food production, but if you have space enough I roughly estimate that you can build a 20 square yard system, maybe even larger, that runs at half the energy that I am using, while it produces a lot of vegetables and fruit, and eatable fish. If you install the proper pump and pipes.
Basically one solar panel and a large car battery would be more then sufficient enough to run the entire system night and day 24/7 even at cloudy days.
Would you like to share a detailed video on your setup for beginners like me? So that we can install an efficient system with experiences you had .thanks
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Aquaponics, agro forestry, permaculture, seaweed farming, natural sequence farming and so many others. I think all these techniques and methods needs to implemented at various levels so that the destructive industrial farming can be diminished to whatever level we can achieve really. Diversification and decentralization is the key. We do this and bang bang! Although I am certain that the change won't be as smooth as we think and the only reason I can think of is that people are just too tired to try new(they are old but not known to many) techinques in farming. Hope this changes.
Bro your comment just helped to restore my faith into humanity a little
@@unbreakableldorado7723 glad it did
You have obviously never been on a real farm.
@@williambrandondavis6897 um I'm from India. In India, the suicide rate of farmers is the highest in the world. It's one of the biggest political issues in India right now. Most of the people are leaving farming for a better life. Maybe I'm not a farmer but I do know pretty closely what's its like for not so rich farmers to lose their crops by erratic rains which are prevalent in India by the way. But I guess you clearly are not in for it, maybe you're one of those big industrial farmers so that makes sense. But if you're just some other dude on internet who doesn't know anything he's talking about then I would say with pretty please, with sugar on top, eat shit
@@williambrandondavis6897 also, I never said its going to change completely conventional farming,rather my focus was on the diversification and decentralization. A bunch of greedy corporations deciding what's best food for me, nah. Fuck em.
Basically if you want to make good food free from too many human inputs... it has to mimic a robust ecosystem as close as possible. With the right amount producers, consumers, decomposes all interacting with inorganic components of the system and an energy source. the more biodiverse a system is the more robust it is. Thats why monoculture doesn't work in the long run.
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My aquaponics system is biodiverse, and it has all the components that nature provides. In fact that is the whole idea behind aquaponics. If it weren't a closed loop system it would not even work.
Hello. If they took the plants in that ecosphere, the nutrients in that sphere would reduce over time because they took the plants. The quality and quantity produced over time would reduce.
Edit: ohhh... Fish in a tank produce poo. Poo water nurture in some thing. Poo water go to water farm. You just need to feed fish.
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You forgot an important step in the biological process of the system because you do not understand how it works. But I will give it a shot and try to teach you something about aquaponics.
You feed the fish, the fish pee and poo, and after that the ammonia and other chemical components from the fish waste get converted by bacteria into nutrients for the plants.
So as long as you keep feeding the fish, there will be a constant stream of nutrients for the bacteria, and they will create a constant stream of nutrients for the plants :-)
And so once in a while you need to ad some minerals in order to keep the water hardness and the PH at an optimal level for the bacteria, the fish, and the crops that you want yo grow. Those minerals that I am talking about is not food for the living organisms, but those minerals make it possible for the living organisms to process their food. It is needed to keep their system going. Such an additive can be sea weed extraction, or molasses, or some other natural existing component that does the trick.
Fish food can be anything, living insects and larvae, different types of worms, water fleas, or mosquito larvae, or dried food such as dried insects and larvae, or other dry food. And all that food can be grown easily, and locally, and with waste bio mass from the crops, or the water from the system, at high volumes and very low costs, with a constant rate.
The reason why an aquaponics system is so effective is not because it is some sort of magic, but because it uses very low energy to grow vegetables and proteins at the same time, at high yields, in a very small space. And it produces almost zero CO2 emissions, and it reduces the need for fresh water by 80%, and it takes away the need for fertilizers and pesticides because both would kill the bacteria and therefore the whole system. And it is very reliable, and the harvest is all year long. And there is no need for weeding, so there is very little time spend on maintaining the system and the crops. And there is virtually no risk for undesired weather influences. Unless there is a tornado or other natural disaster.
It is only logical once you understand the biology behind it.
Fish use the heat from the water as an energy source to digest their food, that means that they do not have to use the energy from their food source to heat up their body and digestive system, and therefore fish can use all the energy from their food source to grow their body.
Fish do also not waste any energy from their food source on staying upright or to stay warm. And the diet from a fish contains much more proteins compared to the diet from a cow or other livestock. And fish do not fart as much as cows or other livestock. And fish do not create any harmful fine dust.
It will never fully replace conventional farming because you can't grow certain crops with an aquaponics system. But other crops do extremely well with this system.
So there you go, I hope that that you have learned something from it :-)
@@insAneTunA Thanks for the detailed explanation. I was looking at it at a wrong angle. I was looking at it as a closed system. Like a Biosphere. So there is input and output. What you are saying is..
You feed fish. Fish poop. Fish poop good for plant. Fish poop go to water plant. It is low cost, low effort, high efficiency farming strategy. This strat doesn't get plants penalty when it is planted in different season. This farming strategy doesn't affect or fasten the global warming event. Fish is a great animal to rear because of low cost if the water is in optimal condition. It produces fish meat and poop that can be fertilizer. Fish is a versatile low cost high efficiency organism.
Already doing this to grow salad vegetables. Food tastes better when you worked hard for it. Saving up some money to incorporate solar panels to save on electricity. The environmental scientist in me is happy watching these videos.
How much would a system like this cost ?
@@tinotendagutsa466 depends on what you need in your situation. There is no size futs all or even most.
Wow! Amazing video! I'm a student of Fishering Engineering in Brazil and I love studying about aquaponics systems in other places! I hope my country invests more and more in projects like this.
We’ve had that is LA for years. They’re called crawfish farms. Rice in spring, and crawfish in fall.
Fake Liberal LA.
@@ransom182 he means Louisiana clown.
@@ransom182 dawg ur so stupid lmao he means Louisiana
@@ransom182 lmao
@Akki Kishore compare to what? Alabama? lol
This is so cool, I just wish more companies would explore REAL sustainable ways of producing food. 😒
Cool yes. Profitable than existing options? To be seen.
Yes, because the way we’ve been growing food for the last few thousand years hasn’t been at all sustainable.
The CO2 footprint of food transportation only represents 6% of the emissions..
Right now, farming with artificial lights rarely is "better", because the energy production often comes with fossil fuel emissions.
It is really interesting because of the low water consumption - I'd be curious to see it happen on greenhouses
@@thedude5001 I think the big thing here is that we would decrease water usage substantially
@@haydenr5128 well it hasn't, we paid for this by being in the era with the fastest desertification rate...
And we can store them in huge tower to save even more space and build said towers on the ocean so the waste produced can be used to grow algae and feed more fish
Building in/above water will increase the cost and time tremendously
Towers in cities would be convenient
Dude. Need nutrient and energy to do this. Also expensive to made.
No mention if disaster happens.
I think it wil be effecient if every household have this instead using tower
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This channel has the potential to be great. Just wanna say that I'm here before it explode to 1 Million subscribers.
Yeah definitely this videos are great
Does not matter. It is 100% paid with German tax money.
@@omeee how do you know that?
@@jeremiahlunario4889 because we pay for it? Every household in Germany has to pay around 20 Euro per month so they can burn money with stuff like this. They get 8 billion Euro tax money plus ads on TV.
Just a small note: tax money is not the same as the broadcasting fee. But in the result you are right, we (DW) are paid by the taxpayers (directly). The other ARD stations are paid via the broadcasting fee.
I like this concept. There could be several indoor farms in the city that grow crops of their choice, and they can also sell it right next door. No need to transport the vegetables to the store if they grow in the store. Allows us to disturb nature less and reuse resources very well.
You legitimately cannot do this with every crop. Root veggies don't do well in hydroponics and aquaponics. We need a hybrid style. Hydroponics and aquaponics are very good, but not a solution to all plants we eat.
Take away fast food and solve the majority of our issues.
@@justjess6636 even if you can’t do with all, it would still make a big impact to do it with what you can
@@louishesketh2482 fast food is literally not the problem. It’s our culture. As a person who eats pretty healthy I’d be pissed if we lost fast food
@@phil_matic as a person, try to think of the Billions of people that depend on this industry, and what this earth endures to supply this industry. Some eat this daily... when does it end? Synthetic meat to supply the demand!?!
I’ve been doing hydroponics on my balcony for more than a year now. It’s a stress reliever and i could get bunch of fresh and healthy veggies whenever i want. I have a plan to build aquaponic. The only problem is money lol
I have used my fish tanks and ponds to grow plants since the 1980s I know a good num of plants and fish- crustation types that do well in such systems I also use vermiculture. It's part of the cycle that's needed that this video doesn't consider.
My aquaponics system works great, and it uses 40 watt of power. Fresh strawberries every single day, and they taste sweet, fresh and juicy. I also have chive, reddish, bay leave, dragon herb, and a few other varieties.
It is not new in the Philippines, either! We call it here "palay-isdaan", hybrid ricefield and tilapia ponds.
It’s clear that you have a deep passion for farming, and it really shows in the quality of your videos
3:59 focusing on that will get MANY people into aquaponics, hehe! I am also doing my own hydro and aquaponics with my turtles, koi, and goldfish
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There's an aquaponics farm just a few blocks from me! I've been meaning to buy some of their fish. They use catfish :)
I definitely wanna start my own aquaponics farm on a mountain top ASAP!
Start in your kitchen first. I did, and it was awesome.
This was favorite thing when I was studying veterinary medicine, learning alternative farming techniques in synergy with plants & animals
That’s exactly what the Aztec did just un a way bigger scale “Chinampas”
They say that in the video…
@Ross- A -Roni Yeah, the fish it magical air food, and just create poo value. Its awesome.
@Ross- A -Roni Bruh this is an alternate route to normal farming, of course they're trying to promote it🤣
@Ross- A -Roni It’s disappointing how these people don’t know much.
@Ross- A -Roni It is not bullshit, I have my system running for years, and I am quite happy with it. But I use gold fish instead of eatable fish. For me it is a hobby.
Disney World has an aquaponics research center and their Chiquita Banana ride takes you on a tour of it. Got to be honest, that was my favorite thing in Epcot. I thought it was so cool and such a good idea for both vertical growing and sustainable farming with both fish and vegetables.
3:58 i like how they throw weed in there.
Glad I saw your comment I missed it the first time.😅 🤣
They’re a company from the Netherlands afterall haha
I think an important piece left out is that aquaponics should be applied when applicable. Simply putting fish in farms won't work everywhere. In areas with access to water it's a great idea as Japan has already shown. In areas without access to waters like the desert states in the US, it will only strain water resources further. Desert states already lose millions of gallons from exposed water moving through aqueducts and canals, agriculture, and green golf courses.
The whole point of these farms is to save water.
Did you miss the part where it said aquaponics uses 90% *less* water than normal farming?
In certain areas A/C even extract water from the air which makes those systems water plus
This is a fantastic concept. Currently, I am in the UAE, working closely with a large aquaponic system in Ras-Al-Khaimah. One of the most significant challenges for a large-scale system like this is the substantial initial capital expenditure (CAPEX) and high energy costs associated with it. Considering the requirement for a substantial amount of fish and the need for pumping a significant volume of water, large-sized pumps are necessary. This issues are translated in a higher price of crops compared to the ones you buy in the supermarket.
In Indonesia the shrimp in huge farms have steel mesh on top with thousands of chickens on top of the mesh. Guess what the shrimp eat?
One of my friends has a home made aquaponics system at her house. She built it and grows veggies on top and edible fish in the enormous water tank. She gave me some of her tomatoes, they were incredibly delicious.
There are a lot of people who do not seem to understand why this aquaponics system is so efficient, and how it actually works from a biological perspective, and some people come up with all sorts of self created nonsense. So allow me to explain it in a bit more detail.
You feed the fish, the fish pee and poop, and after that the ammonia and other chemical components from the fish waste get converted by bacteria into nutrients for the plants.
So as long as you keep feeding the fish, there will be a constant stream of nutrients for the bacteria, and they will create a constant stream of nutrients for the plants :-)
There are different aquaponics systems, the flood and drain systems also ad nitrogen automatically to the roots from the crops, and that nitrogen comes naturally from the surrounding air that we breath.
And so once in a while you need to ad some minerals in order to keep the water hardness and the PH at an optimal level for the bacteria, the fish, and the crops that you want yo grow. Those minerals that I am talking about is not food for the living organisms, but those minerals make it possible for the living organisms to process their food. It is needed to keep their system going. A bit like what a gearbox does for a car. Such an additive can be sea weed extraction, or molasses, or some other natural existing component that does the trick.
Fish food can be anything, living insects and larvae, different types of worms, water fleas, or mosquito larvae, or dried food such as dried insects and larvae, or other dry food. And all that food can be grown easily, and locally, and with waste bio mass from the crops, or the water from the system, at high volumes and very low costs, with a constant rate.
The reason why an aquaponics system is so effective is not because it is some sort of magic, but because it uses very low energy to grow vegetables and proteins at the same time, with high yields, in a very small space. And it produces almost zero CO2 emissions, and it reduces the need for fresh water by 80%, and it takes away the need for fertilizers and pesticides because both would kill the bacteria and therefore the whole system. And it is very reliable, and the harvest is all year long. And there is no need for weeding, so there is very little time spend on maintaining the system and the crops. And there is virtually no risk for undesired weather influences. Unless there is a tornado or other big natural disaster.
It is only logical once you understand the biology behind it.
Fish use the heat from the water as an energy source to digest their food, that means that they do not have to use the energy from their food source to heat up their body and digestive system, and therefore fish can use all the energy from their food source to grow their body.
Fish do also not waste any energy from their food source on staying upright or to chew on their food all day long. And the diet from a fish contains much more proteins compared to the diet from a cow or other livestock. And fish do not fart as much as cows or other livestock. And fish do not create any harmful fine dust.
It will never fully replace conventional farming because you can't grow certain crops with an aquaponics system. But a very wide range of crops do extremely well with this system.
So there you go, I hope that that you have learned something from it :-)
Plants need about 17-20 minerals and micronutrients. Does aquaponics provide this? One of the problems with hydroponics is that the plants lack the nutrients and taste bland as well as not being so beneficial.
@@davidjma7226 Short answer is no, the minerals and the taste are not a problem at all. It all depends on your local external factors and the setup. But I have to apply some minerals to my system, because for some minerals, not all, there is no natural supply. Which is true for every fishpond. And I have an outdoor system so the rain and the heavy nitrogen pollution in my country changes the water values, and I have to compensate for that so that the water hardness stays at the correct level. That is to keep the micro organisms happy, and the roots from the plants also need a certain amount of water hardness otherwise they simply stop growing. My flood and drain beds are filled with volcanic rock, so there are many minerals available, just not all. I also added worms to the system. The food from the fish brings minerals to the system. And because I have an outdoor system some minerals are supplied naturally by the birds, but also by thunderstorms, and by the wind, and so on. Also some left over bio mass from leafs and such will remain in the system and it will be converted into plant available nutrients by the micro organisms and worms.
When it comes to taste I have no problems at all. The strawberries that I pick from my system taste delicious, and it is not comparable with what you can buy in the store. But that is mainly because they have to pick the strawberries a little too soon otherwise they become too ripe and too weak for transport. I can pick them when they taste at their sweetest, and I do not have to worry about transport. I transport them straight to my belly if the birds do not beat me to it :-)
I also have garden crest, and chive, and it all tastes awesome. I do not have much personal experience with other crops because I like to experiment, and in the first years I had to get familiar with the system, and work out the problems and improve things. Like making it winter proof so that things do not get clogged during the winter so that I loose a lot of water, which has happend to me. And more of that sort of stuff.
And my personal main goal is not to produce as much food as possible. I created this system to keep my pond clear, and to fulfill my personal curiosity. For me it is a hobby, and everything that I grow is for fun. And a substantial part gets eaten by the birds. Although I am in the middle of creating a cage so that in the future I can keep the birds out so that I can eat my own strawberries :-)
The most important factor for every form of food production is the micro organisms. You can put all the nutrients in whatever grow medium you like, but if there are no micro organisms, or not enough with enough diversity, those nutrients will be useless and in many cases even work against a growing plant, and attract pests and diseases. The micro organisms make the nutrients available for the plants. They do all the important work. And when they are happy with the conditions where they live, and when they can do their very important work in the most optimal conditions, your veggies and fruits will taste delicious. So it is very important to know your local conditions and what might cause problems to your system and the micro organisms if you would not address it.
But at the same time not all crops are suitable for an aquaponics system. And your local climate is an important factor as well.
But the taste is not an issue at all :-)
@@insAneTunA Interesting - thanks for such a comprehensive answer. Sooo true about microbes too. I think there are about 6bn of them in a handful of soil and so many soils are sub par or simply barren without them. I represent a brilliant mineral fertilizer, certified organic with limitless supply. Owned by one commercial farmer, we practice the preachings of Neal Kinsey an eminent soil scientist. Obviously since fert prices 3x'd we have been quite busy. We are just moving into hydro and aquaponics/vertical farming in the Middle East as it can be supplied in aqueous format. It's a very interesting sector and a step away from our traditional broadacre farming base but farming is different in the desert! Congrats on everything you have achieved so far. Good to hear those strawbs are tasting as they should. Cheers.
@@davidjma7226 Well the whole idea behind aquaponics is to eliminate fertilizers all together. Fertilizers are a big no no. The fish in the system provide all the nutrients that are needed. And when it comes to soil based food production I do not recommend people to use fertilizers either. Instead I would recommend them to use the principles from permaculture, and the teachings from Dr. Elaine Ingham about organic farming and soil health. She is a scientist who knows everything about healthy soil. And I also would recommend them to learn from Dr. Johnson and his wife Su who came up with the Johnson and Su bio reactor. And I would also recommend people to watch the channel from Charles Dowding, an expert in organic food production without digging or tilling the soil, and with wood chips to cover the soil and to provide lots of habitat for micro organisms.
Fertilizers are bad for plants and the micro organisms, and they attract pests and diseases. I would never ever recommend people to use fertilizers. No matter where they live, and no matter what system they use.
I think you may be using too narrow/limited definition of fertilizer. The waste created by the fish and plants is used as a large part of the fertilizer/nutrients needed. Fertilizer can be/often is from natural sources, and need not be toxic or disruptive.
Good to see Absus Salam sir here, he is the pioneer of Aquaponics in Bangladesh, many people now using it in their roof.
This is brilliant. I truly hope this will catch on!
I have constructed and put into operation my own personal at-home aquaponics system, which is inside my greenhouse. One big issue I have is that I have to account for very hot weather - thus cooling the greenhouse and for very cold weather - thus heating the greenhouse and the water for the fish. Such preparations takes electrical power as well as propane consumption for use within the propane air heater. The only way I can cool the greenhouse is using electrical fans and open the greenhouse's windows.
Thank u for a great video. I believe this is the way most of our food will be grown, although I prefer the bio-digester aeroponic system, which most farmers shy away from because it is technology-dependent, where a technical fault can lead to expensive crop fallers. This is a challenge for me.
Plz make more videos about the nexus - water, food and energy in the urban context. To debunk the technique and challenges that we are facing today is really necessary among the public. Love this channel and hope the channel’ll reach to million of ppls.
I interest to the fish farm and hydrophonic. I see in this channel, the technic was insane, hopefully I can learn to aquaphonic factory in this video and make the same factory in my country so that's can make high quality of the food at my country. But I know who am I, just small people who can't to the other country 🙂
Im with this way of growing food. This will work with many crops but not all. Many can be install around large cities and Several near medium to small city/towns.
Among all those dw channels
This one is my favorite with mind-blowing knowledges💖
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In India we have these systems from a long time and i wonder others think that they should introduce these systems to our country. Indian aquaponic and hydroponic systems are huge farms as big as the size big shopping malls and there are multiple farms where we grow prawns, shrimps , crabs, oysters for pearls, fishes , exotic fruits and vegetables along with greens on land and now a days many farms even grow spirulina which many of them have never even heard of which means biomass of cyanobacteria which can be consumed by humans for high energy and rich in protein and nutrients
I would like to see a wider variety of fruits and vegetables grown this way. Most people have leafy greens as a very small part of their diet and most don’t provide much macronutrients.
Tomatoes are a worldwide stable, andso are cabbages and carrots. It doesn't never have to be salad foods.
I agree. But I've seen proof-of-concept with a lot of different crops - tomatoes, strawberries, eggplants, squash, peppers, etc.
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This is amazing. I would love to buy food that is produced like this!!
Already doing this on my outdoor fish pond. Spinach and lettuce
Some critical notes:
What the video doesnt really mention is that fish need food. So basically, instead of applying fertilizer directly, the fish are fed and their poo is used as manure. So there definetely are inputs, but it is a different type of input. In the end the plants need just as much fertilisers as they otherwise would, so you need at least an equal amount of fish food plus some extra because the fish consume some of it. I dont know if producing fish food instead of fertilisers is really more environmently frienly and cost effective. It would probably be worth it if you can sell the fish, but you can only grow fresh water fish as crops cannot grow on salt water. Furthermore the system is not applicable for many staple crops because it operates in greenhouses, but prices for maize and wheat dont allow these crops to be grown in greenhouses. For small scale projects like the ones shown in the video it is super cool and effective, but on a larger scale you would face some problems: fish food doesnt come raining down the sky, you would quickly saturate the market's demand for fresh water fish, and only a variety of crops can be grown in the system. Oh, and you need a lot of protocols to prevent diseases from entering the greenhouse. But maybe there are ways to work around these problems to make it more widely applicable.
Fish food is pretty easy to come by if the fish eat only algae and plants (like tilapia). Fish that primarily eat insects, earthworms, or maggots would also be easy to raise since bugs can be reared on refuse plant matter.
Aquaponics is amazing! I love these concepts, Aquaponics, vertical indoor farming, permaculture, agroculture, I really believe that through such changes, we can avoid the devastating progress of our economy.
I think this system of aquaponics should be highly used in fish farming, if possible. Because, since the water is highly cleaned through the plants, more healthy and less antibiotic infested fish could be delivered to the market. And the oceans may could regenerate, improving todays situation.
I think the main challenge (both for sustainability and for (deep)space use) is the fish feed production.
Yup. They absolutely do not want to show it. It's the hidden cost of this busines$. Massive wheat and soy farms needed to feed these fish. You literally get less food in return becuase you're not using the massive wheat and soy farms to feed people. Science law: Trophic levels.
There's ways to supplement the fish food.
The weather where I'm at allows for growing duckweed and bsf larvae ( fed using kitchen waste ).
@@edmendez94 There is NO SCIENTIFIC WAY TO IGNORE LAWS OF TROPHIC LEVELS IN ECOSYSTEMS. Inefficient, inefficient, inefficient.
@@ZetaGhozt I'm not sure I follow. Freshwater fishes like tilapia eat plants,larvae and insects in the wild. The only inputs I need are food waste and sunlight.
@@edmendez94 You're not following because you don't know what a trophic level is, and how it applies to feeding humans.
@06:54 No one mention throughout the video about the feeding of the fish. It's not really a closed loop system. Just like when you hear someone bragging they went off grid in their tiny house, but then you see they use propane for cooking and heating...
I have always been impressed by the Netherlands even before I knew about their advancements in eco technology. You would think we in the US would have learned from them among others on how to farm more sustainably, but we are still pouring gallons and the Danes are using ounces.
There is no sustainable practice as of now due to the fact that such a small percentage of the population feeds the mass majority. The only sustainable method is more people in farming, and better optimize less than trying to do more.
@@Moon_Cricket_Stinks hello Marcus, do you mean better water conservation as a form of optimization? I am just asking your thoughts 🤔
@@Moon_Cricket_Stinks If you are looking to increase the number of people dedicated to agriculture, it is because your system is not optimized. Being optimized means doing better with less resources.
In addition, the primary sector is very sensitive to price, if we return to a system intensive in human labor, prices increase and your alternative is not economically viable compared to conventional products.
@@dohc1067 better optimization as in not tasking complete food production to so few. 2% of the US population is in agriculture. So take the current population and calculate 2%. They're tasked with not only feeding the remaining 98%, but also doing in a fashion that keeps food cheap, long shelf life, and of good quality. On top of that, agricultural commodities create the most export GDP for US. Europe's population ratio to agriculture is much higher, plus majority of European food consumption comes from importing since its a rich union.
In terms of optimization there comes a point where overtaxation to compensate demand creates systems that are wasteful due to the fact time, and resources for being more optimized is not reachable. For example, growing 20,000 acres of potatoes to yield any kind of profitable value requires use of aerial application of fertilizer, pesticide, and irrigation being delivered by gigantic center pivot towers. 20,000 acres isn't big compared to 100,000s of acres in Idaho. The Ogallala aquifer suffered due to 9ver irrigation to create mass scale monocrop farms. Yet at grocery stores Idaho potatoes, like almost all plant foods, are a couple bucks. Trying to manage 100,000s of acres of potatoes with a handful of people requires wasteful practices, since manpower is limited. Americans, like much of the world, hate farming as it is a very difficult job, completely weather dependent l, and doesn't yield $$$ like other careers. Yet everyone needs to each, and buy clothing (granted the textile mills are other countries, but alot of cotton farms in the Bible belt still exist).
In China due to such a high percentage of farmers and low fertile land availability, each one grows on 1 hectare. Too little space also creates inefficient practices which is opposite problem.
Up until the invention of synthetic fertilizers (urea), other than bad management practices that created the dust bowl, people left farms for urban sprawl to get a better career that yields more money for less work. Yet all still depends on the supermarkets which depends on the farmers.
Fortunately, more people like to garden which is a small step in the right direction. But until a sizable percentage actually gets into farming, the 2% will continue to be tasked with producing cheap, long lasting, abundant food.
Drip irrigation in open fields also uses 90% less water than big ag methods
3:58 "other plants". I too enjoy other plants.
Great way to have food reserves and learn a lot about farming. I disagree with the synthetic lights. Running pumps constantly etc using a lot of electricity still not the most productive. But it is amazing and great to add on to an ecosphere outdoors:-)
Doing it outside is practical enough in some places, but not everywhere. If it's run from green energy, the electricity isn't such a problem.
We have a diy setup in our terrace, the fishes grown in it are definitely tastier than the ones we get in the marketplace.
my aquaponic setup is a hobby scale setup which is 3x5 meter, and it's produced 1.5 lettuce a day
Oh, no we use 10 Liters of water for 100g of fish and 500g of tomatoes, and let us just not mention all the additional inputs required, because that would be to complicated.
13 minute video about aquaponics wich does not even explain aquaponics well
What additional inputs are too complicated for you tho? Besides fish spawn, food for the fish, heating/cooling, water oxygenation, (probably) some nutrients, micro-organisms that break down the fish droppings and maybe a ph balance once in a while. Every indoor cannabis grower laughs at you if you find that too complicated!
It's a 13 minute video, what'd you expect?
This is a great idea but can be improved. You have to do this outdoors using natural sunlight and growing crops that can handle the summer / winter cycles for best efficiency. If you are clever about choice of fish/frogs and other livestock you won't need to use pesticide either.
Indoors with controlled light spectrum is more efficient. Plants do not need 'sunlight' to grow. They can also get too much sun which will slow their growth.
@@TsLeng Which makes sense, as to why they're doing this project in the Netherlands.
Smaller country, with less resources and land to work with.
And the same reason why Europe has had a lot of technological advancements for hundreds of years.
Because they had no choice, but to be creative. And develop innovations.
It has a place, but this is basically just an extension of traditional integrated farming with animals and plants in harmony
Traditional farming is NOT in harmony with nature, not even remotely. It is the exact opposite. Traditional farming destroys nature.
@@insAneTunA *integrated*
I'm not talking about conventional modern farming.
@@priestesslucy It does mimic nature very close. And it doesn't work if the bacteria are not happy. The main focus from an aquaponics system must be the bacteria. If they do well all the other components do well too.
Hmm... the thumbnail looks like a pink greenhouse (pinkhouse?), not sure what aquaponics is, let's take a look!
After watching: Oh, it's basically my backyard indoor version! lol
a lot of people already bashing the video even though they didnt watched the report
I'm doing it at home too. I personally don't use fish because I can't eat them due to my allergies. So I use special fertilizers in my water and achieve good results with it.
But I especially think it has great potential in the future even for crops you currently don't really see farmed like this yet like grains, corns some berry bushes and in a place like it was shown in the first few seconds I might have even thought about having a second layer for growing.
We also could help to promote facilities like that in regions that struggle with food and water and teach the people there how to use them so they have a stable way to farm for food all year long might be better than just sending them food in the long run.
I wonder how Covid affected them. I mean instalation and energy costs are huge. But when restaurants have been closed due to the lockdown it must have created new issues. Still the technology is quite well-known and have potential.
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Well done DW for giving this it's own youtube channel. That is so smart but particularly because it's so important.
Thank you!
Fin-tastic video!!
good for hobbies or small project for now... issue with water circuit leading to widespread infection, huge impact on productivity
Love it! thank you :)
Very interesting idea. It obviously works but requires so much infrastructure, maintenance, and labor. If you just grow 20 cheap veggies like Phood Farm is doing, I don’t see any way they are turning a meaningful profit. Still a very worthwhile effort!
If you use a fish breed that also works as a cost efficient food source, that would be where good chunk of money will come from due to price of fish on the market.
@@thejestor9378 possibly. I don’t know the economics of fish market to judge how profitable it might be. Fish can be very hard to maintain because of water temperature and pH level requirements plus electricity to keep it all going. Disease could be an issue too. Idk. Farming live fish seems expensive too but maybe there is enough profit to make it worthwhile!
@@NadyaPena-01 there is.. I am straight to telling you it is. The problem is what type of fish, and ensuring you can maintain a breeding stock of them within the aquaponics farm as well.
"It looks like a spaceship actually..." well I was thinking of something else, but sure... a spaceship xD
yeah, like a hooker club lol
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How could farming fresh water fish would slow down the over fishing in the sea?????
Deep and important question...
@@VFPn96kQT you are not fish guy, don’t you?
@@hairypancake4425 saltwater fish can be farmed too
@@Notanothercrayon not in this way.
I remember watching another video about aquaponics where they also raise tilapia fish; the fish are grown for food as well.
Is the styrofoam used organic? Does your system use plastic, maybe in the pipes? I see fans and lights. What is the source of power for these? What are the fish fed, a natural diet? Many fish farms produce toxic fish.
Chill bro. Relax
I don't have the answers to your questions, but I am glad that you're asking them. We need new technologies to save the planet. But we can't just welcome every new tech as the thing that will save us all. We need to ask the difficult questions to figure out if new technology will actually help us, or do more harm down the line. I think this is promising, but some of the concerns you have are valid, and need to be figured out, before we can implement this on a larger scale.
Thank you for these amazing possibilties that will need to be publicaly available to give hope to saving this planet from us and all of the innocent creatures that live here too.
Great video!!!
I find this work amazing! Its so cool how there are so many better ways of farming! Thanks for this video. Just one question, where does the fish come from for farming? An idea regarding aquaponics cant produce everything is to combine all sustainable farming methods. Eg agroforestry, vertical farming, aquaponics, etc. Thanks!
The fish usually come from hatcheries that breed types that work well for aquaponics, like tilapia, catfish, or trout.🐟 They’re easy to raise in controlled environments and do well in systems where the water keeps circulating. We also have a video on agroforestry, did you check it out yet? 👉 ruclips.net/video/cfvYL-Acyec/видео.html
Thank you for the reply!
Question is, who is paying or investing on it?
*companies looking at stocks and other things to invest.
Makes sense...
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Instead of lights, we should have mirror arrays that capture sunlight from the roof and diffuse/distribute it to the plants below. Cut costa majorly and allow for larger scale. Thoughts?
EDM beats make this documentary attractive to young generation. Mission Accomplished. 💥
And if you grow duckweed to feed the fish then it would be super efficient. And using Tilapia for the fish farm.
They could place subtitles in Spanish, this information is great.
It's like a hitech lab. We are inspired to cultivate our veggies now!
Current existing farmers can easily convert their lands into aquaponic farms now.
Considering billionaires are buying up farmland.... maybe they can actually do some good, but my hopes are idealistic lolol
But for real, they have the money, considering amazon now has stores... I don't doubt they will get into agriculture too
The easiest way to reduce the bad impact of agriculture is to stop/reduce meat consumption. Over half of the food produced by agriculture goes to feed animals. It take many pounds of plants per pound of meat. All those problems and extra stuff with fish can be avoided if we just eat plants.
This is false
When we grow corn, we do not consume the by products of that corn like the stems and leaves, this is used as animal feed as we humans do not consume it.
Should we consume less meat? Probably, but to say that meat consumption is completely to blame is not true
True. I agree. The parts of the plant humans can’t eat are fed to cows.
But animals are also fed grain mixtures. A majority of their nutrition is grain meal (made out of soy, corn, etc). That grain meal could feed way more humans than the meat and milk from that cow will.
The corn refuge that humans can’t eat can be ground up and used as base for Mushrooms. Even better, it can be composted and used as fertilizer.
But no, let’s feed to cows, inject them with antibiotics and hormones, fatten them up, make them lactate 10 gallons of milk a day (btw Cows used to naturally produce only 1-2gallons a day) with no regards to the suffering it goes through with its fat udders.
@@shepherds314 and OF COURSE there is no middle ground between "eating only vegetables" and "force feeding cows with antibiotics and vitamines to fatten them and make them yield 10 gallons of milk per day".
The other guy talked about eating "less meat", which sounds reasonable and allows for a smaller imprint and a more sustainable agriculture but still giving us the benefits of eating meat and dairy products, and you just jump to both extremes to build a nice staw man that "those in favor of eating meat are crazy psychopaths who only want animal suffering".
@@takix2007 I never called anyone a psychopath. I also suggested 'stop/reduce meat consumption' in the very first line of my argument.
The part about 'calling meat eaters Psycopaths' came from you. Do an introspection, is that what you think of meat eaters?. Speaks volumes about the cognitive dissonance people experience.
@@shepherds314 guess my reply was more about your own reply than about your original post. My bad.
The part about "animal killing psychos" has nothing to do with my inner self, and everything to do with frequent vegan extremist rethoric. Don't try to Freud me into weird beliefs...
If just 10 percent pf humanity worked on projects like that, we could live in a paradise
I want try aquaponics someday, my father insisted to stay on soil based on his farm and dont want to try aquaponics
Furture : when farmers wear suits to work.
Great vision ! Instead of this aquaponic ( raising fish and growing good food) , here in Tasmania salmon farms are polluting the estuaries and bays with huge fish farms producing fish made toxic by the extensive use of chemicals to keep the operation going ....
Missed a trick at 3:59 , if you'd just waited 21 more seconds :(
I’m a biologist with a focus on plant & soil science (I love planting trees), but I’m infatuated with this system.
I recognize that the future of vegetable production are these types of greenhouses. It’s a wonderful thought because of the conservation of natural resources and how healthy the food is. There’s a lettuce aquaponics greenhouse being built here in my small city and I can’t wait to visit!
#SaveForests #SaveOceans #ReduceFossilFuels #RenewableEnergy #SaveEarth
13:08 Yes, marijuana would fall into the category of "wide variety." Those fish are carp - inedible. (to me)
But could you make food from this fish to feed livestock like pigs for an example?
The fish aren't meant for food. Around the 7 min mark they say these carp will be sold to fish collectors.
@@Warrior_warlock Those arent the only kind of fish you can use to do this. Also integrating this vertically is the future. Plenty of better videos than this out there explaining vertical farming and aquaponics. This video feels like it was made in the 90's so far behind what we have already been doing for 20+ years. Now we just need to do it on a larger scale.
@@soundsofnature7015 "This video feels like it was made in the 90's" There was no red-blue LED lights for growing in 1990s.
@@soundsofnature7015 Idk if vertical is the future. I’m skeptical because the weight of the water, maybe it could vertical underground instead? I’m not sure
I had made a small green house kitchen farm to use in kitchen for science exhibition in india, gorakhpur when I was in 5th grade cost me about 100 $ and have planted some chilli tomato and coriander.
Right off the video, It’s not a NEW method, it’s been around for thousands of years. Lol DW
It's said at 5:43
So like...remember that Paulie Shore movie "BioDome"? This was in it, and that movie was from the early 90's!
Yup ,,, also remember lawnmower man? Same era,,, virtual reality ,,, and it’s taken this long :)
See this is way less likely to result in violence then trying to make us eat bugs
Informative documentary 🙏
the biggest thing in aquaponics is how and what you feed the fish. The fact that this 13 minute video skipped this issue in aquaponics literally makes all the information incomplete
10 liters of water and a fish makes a tomato? haha don’t make me laugh!
10 kilo’s of mixed fish feed (grown on original farms) and water make the tomato
We primarily want to present/show the procedure and not the detail work. This is also the reason why we have referred to DYI videos on this topic in our description text.
Superb idea, after few years later i will start this types of Project in a big place.
Aquaponics is great but the whole forget about farming is bullshit.
I think it's more about reducing the impact agriculture has, not really ending farming as a whole. It wouldn't be possible to get rid of farms without other solutions already in place (like aquaponic/hydroponic/whatever systems)
But also, if our demand for food increased, farms as they are now wouldn't be sustainable.... They already aren't (as far as their impact)
I live out in the sticks with small time farmers and whatnot.... I get to see happy cows n chickens n whatnot, so I don't hate farming or anything... But I do see the perks in these systems. Especially when used together
@@doodoodoodle It can't fully replace traditional farming because some crops will not grow with an aquaponics system, like for example potatoes.
@@insAneTunA that's why I said it'd be nice to see both systems used
It's a developing technology, it's progress. Be patient. Nobody said "we have all the solutions now, forget about farming"
@@Notanothercrayon I have my own outdoor aquaponics system for around 10 years, there is not much more to develop. Fact of the matter is that certain crops can't be grown with this system due to the nature of the crops and the system.
But due to the nature of an aquaponics system we can replace a substantial part of traditional agriculture and mono culture, and it is possible to do it indoors inside a multilevel building, with a much higher efficiency, and with a far smaller footprint, and with far less harmful emissions, and with far less water usage, without destroying nature and without reducing the wild insect, and wild bird, and wild plants population. An aquaponics system also reduces the amount of nitrogen in the air.
"The integration of the fish and plants is flawless! Your setup is inspiring. 🌿🐟 [11:32]"
Very interesting documentary. Exept background music very loud.
I agree and am using this in my model to end homelessness and hunger, while achieving so much more. Hopefully soon everyone will have heard about my new nonprofit organization, and the concept behind it.
Thompson Family Homestead inc.
Reading about history and how a lot of the farming done in America had to be engineered. Corn, wheat, even cattle could not survive Texas and Oklahoma heat so we made some that could. It’s about time that our farms changed if that’s aquaponics or what the Netherlands are doing right now.
my perspective since years have been that, we really ignore the relationship of soil to plant life? I can relate this way-of-growing crops to hundreds of chicken raised in a closed farm (bio or non-bio). I wonder, we celebrate growing plants as mere commodities than a living being.