Aquaponics Tour
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- A detailed walkthrough of the first licensed aquaponics farm in Detroit, Michigan. Please note CEDAM does not own this farm; we can only answer very basic questions! The farm grows basil and tilapia in a retrofitted building using a system based on one developed by the University of Virgin Islands, online here: www.uvi.edu/res...
The CDC Farm & Fishery is a L3C Central Detroit Christian program. centraldetroitc...
This video is an extended cut of the CDC Farm & Fishery video on The Bright Side TV show. brightside.ceda...
Very well spoken presenter. I'm glad to see this up and running in Detroit. We need more systems like these across the world.
WOW I need this job I want this job so bad I love fish especially learning and breeding them it's a hobby . On the other hand I started to learn how grow hydroponic foods indoors but adding fish to help plants grow ! This video blew my mind awesome work and genius work . I wish they had something like that in Houston where I live ... hopefully maybe one day I can open a business like these . This video truly inspired me
If you have a good roof space you can add Solar Panels to cut your power costs for lights and pumps,, you have a awesome setup
Aeroponic pumping, high head, and grow lights..... Your power company must LOVE you guys.
+Enigma Cipher
I was thinking the same thing.
Enigma Cipher yeah. They should remove the roof and ceiling and build a hand operated generator. What other flaws can you find with your deliberate negative mindset. Im eager to hear them.
Solar heating systems from Thermomax or now Kingspan in Ireland, I used to make them in a factory very good for hot water, the evacuated solar tubes capture heat from the sun, the glass tubes need to be put on the roof. Good luck very interesting video.
Santa Fe community college has an amazing video on youtube with tons of information. I think it's really cool that you guys are able to start this business in a city that really needs this. I do worry that if you focus too much on one species you open yourself up for being hit to the curb if and when a disease breaks out.
This would be a great field trip for kids. I'm setting up my own little system at home to go along with my aquarium and my kids are loving the ideal. I wish you great success!
hey there I am new to AP as well and have a complete set up going.
There really is no wrong way to do AP.
The biggest is take your time - you need to let it cycle for 6 to 8
weeks to get the bio filter established.
I started off this past January with ammonia and a bucket of sandy
sludge from a local creek.
Once it cycled I used a 6PPM sea salt to kill any parasites and also had
fish in it at that time - the 6 ppm will go away over time - do not
keep salt there constantly limit to 4 to 6 weeks as it will kill the
fish over time it over works the kidneys.
Aeration is your biggest ally my setup has a 200 gallon sump as my
breeder for the rosy reds and fat head minnows to feed my bass and
crappie - crappie are finicky and not a good fit but I like them so I
have 10 in my float beds 15 bass and 12 blue gills. The ratio is one 200
gallon sump to one 250 gallon float bed constant flow run off, to a 300
gallon grow bed with media. bass and blue gill are pellet trained.
The plant growth is no joke in just a week and a half after planting I have full blooms and tomatoes.
The bigger concern in food production is bees.
The secret I believe is using high protein feed to predatory fish like blue gill and bass.
the greens are going really well. Expecting to expand out to produce 5 acres of produce off of a
city plot size location using solar panels and water turbines off of gravity fed auto siphon . Tilapia is a trash fish like carp low quality food for humans.
Your going in the right direction,from liquor store to fish farm.good job.I commend you ,keep up the good work.may God bless you and your projects sir.
Wonderful work man! Great way to reclaim old buildings, produce local food, add to the job market, and educate people all at once. Good luck with altering the system when you fit solar energy into it.
best information about Tilapia in any aquaponics video I've seen
Composting indoors will add a sign amount of heat to the operation. Using waste food from your customers to feed Black Soldier Flying larvae will not only keep the waste out of a landfill, but also generate large amounts of both heat and self harvesting larvae to feed the fish. Duckweed should also be grown to feed tilapia. Breeding BSF is the hardest part of producing larvae on a year round basis.
Peter M. Eggers polystyrene doesn't break down until heat is added. It's also coated.
That is amazing, far beyond what envisioned a system would be!
Wow, Great, informative presentation. I would definitely add solar vacuum tube water heaters. They are fairly inexpensive and would pay for themselves quickly. Another possible thought is using roof solar tubes. This should not only let in ambient light, but also provide sunlight during the daytime. It looks like a flat roof which is perfect for that kind of solar tube. It's also something you could add little by little to spread out costs. That will help keep your energy costs down.
Great job and good luck on this great business adventure.
(Also, make sure Anthony gets out of that place to sell.
He speaks VERY well and could sell just about anything)
Excellent narrator 👍👍👍 you made a large amount of information easily digestible (pardon the pun).. Thanks for sharing!
Back in 8th grade, I did an aquaponics project for a science fair, and that sparked my love for aquaculture. I've owned tilapia for 2 years now, and they're not just average food fish, yanno? They have personality (similar to flowerhorns and other large cichlids, like oscars) and they're such cool fish. They're gorgeous and are so neat. I have 7 tilapia right now, but I'm planning on doing a tub system this spring when it warms up so I don't have to purchase a *ton* of heaters. I've never eaten my tilapia (I'm too attached to them to eat any lol) but when they get too big, I bring them back to the fishery I got them from in exchange for more tilapia fingerlings.
Seems like these processes are just in their infancy and much research and development is still needed but it's very exciting.
A wonderful tour, thanks!
Best of luck to you!
If you are planning on building an Aquaponic system for your backyard or organic garden, then you need to know the about home Aquaponic requirements. Learning them before you start will help you avoid any issues during the time of building your Aquaponics system.
Check out => easydiyaquaponicstv.blogspot.com
To save money on electricity, if feasible, you should consider a wood gasification furnace for heated circulating water. The kind that is typically used in radiant heating in homes. You can also include thermal water storage tanks to store all the energy from the wood and use the hot water as your needs change throughout the day. This of course assumes that it would be easy to find wood to burn.
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Great video presentation, knowledgeable and articulate. GOOD JOB....
I just watched your video. what agreat system you have. I applaud the total use of everything you produce. I am still learning abount the aquaponics systems and this has answered a lot of my questions. (The vermaculture idea is new step for me. wonderful stuff!) Thank you for posting this. If I am ever in the Detroit area I would love to see this first hand!
Tony
You can grow and feed your fish "duck weed", and "Moringa tree leaves" they are vegetarians but love Black Soldier fly's. Love to you
I love this idea. I would love to start something like this too.
The best video i have seen on youtube! Thanks for the breakdown and science of it all. The host is great!
You guys are doing great things for your community. Keep it up. Good system lay out
The tilapia here is actually really good, They are grown in fish farms in large tubs and fed normal fish food. maybe in some other latin countries are different but where im at in Peru, its great quality. Also visited one in Costa Rica that was well kept. But any other countries im not sure
Very well spoken & very informative...much appreciated!
just from seeing this i believe you need to regiment your light and dark spaces better for everything especially your gardening starts to give them a good start. as well as food that will not hurt your aquaculture
a great start though
Only thing I would add is a evacuated solar tube system such as Apricus solar water heating.
very good presentation, wish you all the best
I actually succeeded with window light. Breeding same and raising. plant leaves and from my garden. Also flakes to heavier fish food. Depending size of fish.
Excellent video. Thanks
I am puzzled, you use reverse osmosis water for the plants and the refuse water for topping up the fish tank... what is the use of RO then, both water ending up in same system afterwards... Or maybe something I missed.
The RO'd water makes up for the evaporated water.
Quentin Belmonte that does not match what the guy says in the video...
Chez Memes It sounds to me like they use the RO water for seed starting 9:17 which is appropriate since they don't want to encourage fungus/bacteria in the starts
yes, they do that too, but as far as I understood, not only. Anyway, would be nice to have the "official" answer rather than we all guess
This is awesome, cool to see it's in my city too
good to see something positive coming out of Detroit..I saw a Documentary where some guys sitting on a porch making fun of people doing gardens and I just thought its better than sitting on a porch drinking beer.?
This system is awesome. Great work!
Very Informative !!!! THANK YOU so much for your video!
Excellent ! !
Very informative. Thank you.
Now THAT is a huge biofilter. LOL Here I'm sitting with my tiny little diy biofilter (works perfectly by the way), and then I see that biofilter of yours the size of a small swimming pool. Dammed. LOL
Wonderful Project! Keep up the good work!
dude your awesome. you know your stuff brother! im jus now getting into aquaponics and you jus fulfilled my hopes and dreams lmao seriously tho ....this is an awesome setup
NIce set up, but you need a serious update on your breeding and grow out set up. HOB filters are not very useful with those fish loads. You would be better off with a rack system and running everything to a wet/dry or fluidized bed. King of diy's channel has alot of great ideas that you could use to make to improve you system.
great work guys!!
Hi but dosn't it cost alot of money to feed the fish? Plus the electricity so how do you even make a profit from the fish?
Hmm I cannot find the PDF you speak of at the UVI link provided. =(
How is the fish farm doing? I could not find it on your web site? What happened?
I have an idea for a small, mobile Aquaponics system. So one of the more interesting things I have taken from this vid is what you have done with he pond liners. I was thinking of doing something similar and it is nice to see that it works before jumping on the investment. I will not be using tilapia though. I need to find a cold water fish. SO I am actually leaning towards Cat Fish.
I have just watch this video and the question I have is what do you do with the solids from the fish tank, still not sure about the process
He mentioned early on in the video that they have an outdoor compost. Any solids that can't be broken down any further probably go there.
Could you let me know where can you get the best tilapia for breeding? thanks
This is super awesome! Is there a specific reason you are using glass tanks vs using 275 gallon ibc totes. Totes are super cheap and food grade ones make a fantastic holding tank. It’s a happy medium between tanks and commercial grade holding tanks. Tanks that size can be heated with a hot water heater element. 1500w heating element is $10 at a hardware store. The solar heating idea is pretty awesome though.
Thank you for this very nice video. I just worry about the electricity used... for pumping, heating, and lights. Right?
How do they control the mold/mildew with the high levels of humidity?
Great operation!
So I imagine you use nitrosomonas and nitrobacter for proper nitrogen for the plants, but are there any special requirements to clean the food very well for eating or are these bacteria safe for human digestion?
Highly outstanding
I will love to visit you have a great set up for the space available.
Looks like you have food build up in your beds the roots looked a little dark and slimy for this type of growing hence the very droppy plants
You can use solar panel for motors and lighting.
I would like to know more about your business... Please make more videos. I want to learn more. nice videos!
LOVE IT!!! Thank you for doing what you do :)
Given that your temperatures of your tanks are about 90 degrees, have your you found any mammalian pathogens such as E. coli or salmonella?
I wish state and tribal ran salmon, trout, and steelhead hatcheries all were updated to incorporate this system.
Nice production-plant!
How do you harvest the worm castings? It would seem the casting would clog the biofilter.
How did you start ? How did you first start growing? What is the basis of these great project?
Them fish in the last tank, are under so much stress!! Using RO water removes things that you don't get from the fish, and you need to replace it, and have the natural things in the water.
RO water is for replacing the water lost from the system due to evaporation and transpiration. This is a very low percentage of overall water volume. You should understand that nutrients, ions and molecules, do not evaporate out of the system. When fish food is put in, the only place for that to go is into some animal or plant to make them grow. This is why topping off with RO water is necessary; the ion balance will be thrown off in the short term otherwise. And in the long term, the water may become too salty for things to live. For me, our tap water is not too high in ions, but I don't know if it has magnesium or calcium or someother-ium. I know it is contaminated with perchlorates, which I hope the RO filter takes out. Then I can add small amounts of certain minerals depending on my measured ion concentration and plant needs, and only if necessary.
Also, some fish like to "school", which means that they want to be really close to their buddies. And therefore, having high stocking densities in not bad for these fish at all. Please be reminded that the water is constantly being aerated, filtered, and recycled; so it is nothing like having a bucket full of fish sitting around.
In my systems, I have played around with various parameters until the fish get stressed. Stressed fish get sick, then usually die (unless the source of stress is eliminated immediately). Happy fish keep eating. fish grow when they eat. After they grow too much they get thinned out to have more space to grow (or get eaten). Same thing with plants, sort of.
Paul McDonald lol "them fish" got a post graduate dissertation in response. 🤣
RO water removes nothing.
Excellent! Great video... I hope those just getting started, are well aware of the plastic toxicity contamination potential when choosing petroleum based containers, hoses, poly liners and irrigation components... the longer a system is in use, the greater the risk is for hoses and containers to break down and leach toxins from the UV rays of the Summer Sun, from the heat, as well as contact with fertilizers and other chemicals. Don't just guess and hope for the best, try to source natural containers (ie: stone, clay or glass, etc...) and/or "Food Grade" approved containers/components every step of the way... one step forward is not worth two toxic steps backwards when it comes to you and your family's health ;)
hello , as you mentioned about the compost .
Just curios why not build a mini bio generator to the system aswell .
Where can I find the PDF mentioned at the end? This has been a vision of mine for a few years now. Last week a neighbor had several 300gal water storage containers for sale... I got one. :)
What was the reason your using areo instead of flood and drain beds? Because of the worms?
What type of foam are you using? If you don't mind me asking.
Interesting! Where do you get your fish? Also where can I get a large air pump to aerate a couple of 8 x 64 foot grow beds?
Awesome video !
I have asked about 2 months ago, if I can have my Aquaponic group here in Flint...........maybe do a tour of your facility. Is it possible?
How much would it cost me to set up something similar to this in the UK?
Nice setup
used to be live buffalo fish seller in Inkster...mich ave and middle belr
what about using compose to warm up your water?
In addition to solar, you should look into a groundwater source heat pump for heating your water. If you have groundwater in your area, you could use that to heat the water while cooling the building in the summer. If not, you could use fish tank water to cool your building while you heat the fish water. Another one could be used to cool the water the plants get while heating the water the fish live in. Check it out. These systems run basically on the cost of running a pump and could save you lots of money.
I would rather eat your tilapia and not the Chinese-raised tilapia where they feed the fish feces. The Chinese raised fish could not be good for you.
Somebody needs to look through these comments and respond. I'd like to see one of these aquaponics systems do regular updates. Seems like a lot of hype and then no follow up videos with baller ass gardeners and big healthy plants... Wonder why that is???
search Murray hallam and you'll see some amazing aquaponic successes.
cuz after this video all the plants were replaced by cannabis plants. nice!!
whats the problem with that?
I was wondering about feeding the fish insects like flies and mosquitoes they are free and your getting rid of a pest.
If you have an outdoor system, the yes, many fish species will eat the pests. Mosquitoes like to lay their eggs in still, dark spots of the water, so minimizing those areas to begin with will keep the pest population down in the first place.
What nutrients does the fish waste water lack?
Sir can I work with U I want learn to you ?
Cost on biodiesel is approximately 70 cents a gallon
Amazing!
How many holes do you have per 4x8 sheet?
why do no aquaponic plants look huge like normal plants?
I am a fan of aeroponics but this application is somewhat ineffective compared to cheaper alternatives. DWC raft based systems do not require expensive atomizers that get clogged and require maintenance. Raft systems are very easy to take care of.
There are also ways to maximize dissolved oxygen in the water without aeroponic hardware- resistant to mechanical failures.
Sounds very expensive.... how much money do you guys make off selling your product?
nice system
I have a group that wants to tour. Is that possible? We are from Flint.
Cool Video
Is it at all possible to produce a fish species (in a aquaponic system) which are rich in omega 3's... last I checked, tilapia are not actually a poor source od Omega 3's(?) :( It would seem more of a win/win if you could raise a cold water/higher Omega 3 fish species, which in turn would reduce heating costs(?)
could i get the website or however you ordered them
so basically, if plant in aquaponic depends on fish waste for the fertilizer & nutrient supplier for the plant, tis stuff is not realLy natural cycle as long as the food that u give to fish is "PELLET", then the all source of this cycle is that nutritition in those pellet which is a factory product
please message me the guy information who is talking in this video and who to contact to see this setup. i want to expand to other communitys
great stuff
7:32 what is in the chemical bottles on the table?
hi everyone ,if anyone else wants to uncover aquaponics course try Qwixie Amazing Aquaponics Helper (do a search on google ) ? Ive heard some incredible things about it and my co-worker got excellent results with it.
superb!!!
what is the name of the breeder in florida.