How we add Freshwater Prawns / Shrimp to our Aquaponics System
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- How we add freshwater prawns / shrimp to our Aquaponics system. Here at Grow Dinner Aquaponics we raise freshwater prawns and tilapia in our aquaponics system. Here is a short video with some great underwater footage so you can see how it all works.
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Ahhh, bottom feeders with their own compartment at the bottom of the tank, with screen big enough to let food through, that's awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Excellent video! Planning my first back yard system and this will save me a lot of trial and error. I have a few questions please:
1) What is the barrier config separating molting/non-molting (are molted smaller and squeeze into a smaller screen sector)?
2) Where do the crayfish stay and why a blend of two crusty bottom feeders?
3) Do you breed the prawns too? Is there a nursery for the female prawns?
Gotta say !!! _ The camera probe was a real nice touch I haven't seen on any other video.
IM GONNA BULID IT!
about all fish work I have catfish, koi, trout, crayfish and prawns
PRAHHNS. Love your accent,... but I have never heard them called Prones.
Your video gave me some good ideas. Thanks...now I know what to do with that pond thing I got ages ago.
Thank you am from the south!
SO WHAT DO YOU FEED THE FISH AND WHERE DO YOU GET THE FRESH WATER PRAWNS AND TILIPIA TO PUT IN THIS SYSTEM?
I like that screen sytem you built to separate the prawns. Very simple and functional design.
Thank you
I'd like to see a video on the harvesting of the prawns. New animal to me.
Ok well I have many questions. How many channel Catfish can I raise in 3 320 Gallon IBC tanks in a greenhouse. We will be using the water to supply our Kratki floating raft beds as well as our vertical zip tie grow walls we chose Channel Catfish as I'm really not a fish lover but my mother in law finally taught me to like her fried catfish so I talked the wife into adding them in the back end of our new 10' x 45' greenhouse. The good lord has been providing us with materials and supplies that I thought we'd never be able to afford so He just dropped the stuff in our laps for free and greatly reduced prices. 2 week ends ago a add on Craigs list for just 2 hrs. found us with all the corrugated metal siding we needed. and then this pass week end we ran across a local contractor who has a scrap pile and dead stock pile that will be mostly coming home with us for the ridicules price of hauling it home Thank you Lord! We got 6 heavy aluminum louvered windows, several
pallets of assorted brick, some aluminum scaffolding panels, and all the rest of the fiberglass roof window panels we should need, a couple lengths of roof gutter we can use to add a trough bag / soil grow system. To good to be expected but he made it happen for us. WOW! any advice will be greatly appreciated.
I've watched this video several times and will be after the wife to let me add the craw fish as I herd they make good catfish food.
Great video. Do you have a video or other information regarding the tanks you use? I'd like to do in-ground tanks inside a green house with with grow trays above them.
In my small greenhouse I use IBC tanks the pond is a hole with a pond liner
Have you guys had any trouble with the anti-biology puritanical terrorists who work for the DEA? A few people I know or have read about have had their houses raided for grow lights and greenhouses, including an instructor at Harper Community College. It's a sad day in America when you can't grow your own food without having to worry about trigger happy unskilled thugs (including the local thugs/cops) assaulting and perhaps murdering you. John Ross's essay "How Drug Laws Hurt Gun Owners" for more
Great setup you have there! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you
I just use the diy solar that is other video for warming my ponds
Jason I am sure we will do a video on them this fall. We don't harvest a lot they are part of the cleaning crew. They are a freshwater shrimp they have a little different flavor then the saltwater but they are pretty good. Building a system here in a few weeks it will have freshwater lobster.
Thanks for watching
What species of prawn do you have in this setup?
I have a prawn nursery and have them for sale each spring
Try adding some scuds to the system AKA Gammarus shrimp. They help keep my redclaw crayfish system going and can handle off the chart nitro spikes when a new system is cycling.
How do you deal with the water once it's used up? is it harmful to the ground?
Great video, thanks a lot
Very cool system. Them prawns are curious little fellers
Thanks Crayfish would help some with cleaning the bottom I have a few in one of my systems they do ok but not as good as the prawns.
Can you suggest any books or instructional materials for someone looking to start a similar system?
Hi. I just watched your video and I realized that your setup is not covered. What effect does rain have on your system?
+Gerty Hattingh It lowers the pH that is the only problem with having outdoor systems.
Harvest prawns with a net and yes we have crayfish in our systems
Great system and video. Where do you get your baby shrimp/prawns from?
Grow Dinner Aquaponics we are a hatchery
Would you ship to NYC?
Yes we ship shrimp in the spring
I would think you will be best using crayfish that is what I have in my trout tanks
I have some of them in a different system. The prawns will not fight has bad with bird netting
Well done! Nice design for the pond set up. We are starting year 3 on our small system in Nova Scotia... a bit harder to grow harvest fish without investing in a year round pond heating system but we are looking at it for next year.
brandie Lavoie I would recommend a cover for the pond in colder climate
Jon Baker I have a video of a solar heater I built for my ponds
It is very hard to do I think most people will just need to buy them
No we have had no problems but people can see in our greenhouse and we have no grow light systems going. Plus I live in a small town and most of the town has been here and seen my system lol.
have you thought about putting freshwater mussels ? also how do you spawn more? freshwater prawns
Goldfish work fine but I would look more at fish I could eat catfish, trout work good but grow slow and other fish work fine if it eats it has waste but the faster it will grow the more it will eat. Tilapia I find work the best for me and goldfish or koi its to hot here in the summer for trout to work good for me.
I keep prawns alive in the winter and I am in North Carolina.
nice thank you. hard to tell if those prawns are actually getting up in the layers?
Tilapia and freshwater prawns will not make over winter in cold water. I drop little ones in spring and harvest in fall or move them in the greenhouse over winter and I am in North Carolina zone 7
Mussels would work fine I would think but at the same time I don't think they will clean the system like freshwater prawns will.
I have a nursery and sale them in spring
Great! Quite ingenuous way to build an artificial habitat that can simulate the natural. Thanks for sharing.
Spectacular video!! I loved the underwater camera!
Do you have a brand of bird netting that works best for you?
They love the netting please understand they had no settled we just released the day we did the video. No the food don't go to the bottom its only .25 or 1/4 inch netting. Lattice is to large of holes for when they are small
The mussels I don't think would clean as good as the prawns. The gravel grow beds are our filter
They don't stay small very long and most of the time the other prawns take care of it when one dies
You can use the water for your garden and your vegetables supposing you feeding them bio and not using chemicals.Also you can add a fair java moss layer for reproducing shrimps . small baby shrimps will have a chance to hide there or else they get eaten by the big ones.but this is prawns ok anyway just saying if you had shrimps btw excellent work !
How ingenious! Thanks so much for posting this.
Its a loop system the water is never used up. You are very welcome
That is what the netting is for.
would it be practical / useful to introduce freshwater mussels as cleaners?I imagine them in a tank after the fish, perhaps on a base of sand that the water would be drawn through as a further biological filter
Thank you and yes they are big prawn stars I will be sure to use a star plate when I am having them for dinner one night lol
Thank you Sam I have some mud bugs in my system they work good but I have them in my duckweed and sub tanks
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Great video, subbed pretty quickly.... PLEASE spend $50-100 bucks and get an HD camera! You deserve one greatly. Appreciate the share, cheers
The prawns don't seem to like the netting. i'd try some plastic lattice separated by bricks. the lattice would have to be easier to walk on for the little guys. Also, with the netting all the food goes straight to the bottom anyway.
~love the idea though ;)
I have not had much trouble out of them we have dog and I have a cover for pond
Are talapia in the chiclid family of fish. They sure look like the african chiclids I used to have in my aquarium years ago.
Curious how you made the drainage from your beds to your main fish pond. I can think of ways but I wonder how it could affect the siphon.
No just 1/4 inch works best
How shallow of a pond can I crow prawns in assuming a single layer of giant tiger prawn?
Uncle Rice I would recommend no less than 24 inches
I will try to build this one. I love tilapia, prawns/shrimps. I just need to find where to get the equipments.
Good one and informative. It is a lot worth growing Prawns/Shrimps than Tilapia in terms of economic value.
Well done.
Not sure fresh water prawns are available here, 25 mins north of ATL.
Have seen tilapia for sale, but not sure about making it thru the winter.
what would you use if it were not tilapia? cause in Utah tilapia are treated like a controlled substance?
I have a prawn nursery and have then for sale each spring
Very Nice! The prawns seem like they would add yet another layer of goodness! Do catfish work in such a system?
Love the way you say "prawns"
Are you asking did they live if so of coarse they did
Is it possible to buy also fish ? and how many i need of each to start for myself not commercial.Can you sell them to me.
It all depends on the size of the system how many fish you have in system
It is easy to build an aquaponics system from home, whether it is indoors or outside in the backyard.
Not sure I understand about the temperature management?
Like it. The prawns like the camera. I guess the are now prawn stars;-)
One prawn per 1.5 sq feet of floor space including netting
Great work here!
Enjoyed the video - prawns seemed to want to fight tho' - perhaps anger management classes would help them with their aggression - lol - But really on a more serious note tho': Did you ever consider crawdads instead of prawn?...thanks for posting
Hi, what other creatures could you put in with your fish, albeit separated, which would clean the bottom of the tank. Also, Talapia prefer warm water, and I am going to use Rainbow Trout because they prefer cold water which is easier in my climate. So my tank cleaning critters would also have to thrive in those cold temperatures. Thanks. Good video, everything well explained.
Would it work to put them in the sump tank? If so what kind and where you get them and what would you feed them?
They only tiny for a short time they get huge and when one dies the others will cleanup the dead
Sam I have crayfish in my system they are easy
Very Cool! How much work/time do you spend each day once your system is in full swing? Also, what would be an approximate start-up cost for a 3 tote system, and how much water would you need per month/week? I have a well so this is a consideration for me.
Thanks
Virginia Patton Cost can be little or as much as you want to spend it all depends on what you want. I spend about 5 mins per day in the greenhouse and one day a week I spend about 1 hour
When you start paying to watch the videos I can get one but as long as you are watching for free think we will just use what we have
We have a prawn nursery and sale prawns in the spring
Did you use a concrete tank? Is there anything special about it?
I do in some of my tanks but the neting works best for me in the ponds
You are very welcome thanks for watching
All Top Shelf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1 of top 2 or 3 setups I've found in my non stop search. Prettiest under water photograpy, now looking to find similar with crawfish.
great video, nice underwater visual aid to understand the system. Very nice...
If you will bait the camera with a little of what the prawns eat readily, they will come right up to and around the camera lens. Nice informative videos.
humming bird at 0:08!
You need an HD GoPro for those underwater shots and to get a sharper picture. It would be awesome to see the system in high def. Thanks for sharing!
im in quebec ,where can we buy live fresh water shrimps to put in our fish bassin
How many do you need?
Thanks and I have a prawn nursery
Great vid! Thanks!
Patriot John Adams Thank you
Do the talapia or prawn breed. What about crawfish.
joseph hagood Breeding , talapia will breed in the system, shrimp will need to be housed in a very controled enviroment to breed.. Crawfish are much easier to work with than shrimp and breed very easy.
How big of a space you need per shrimp? Inches or Feet?
2 sq feet per adult animal
Crayfish are in a different system
like your pond, I got a hole in the back yard. This is what I need to do with it. However, I will have to put a screen or fence over the top. we have a lot of cats in the neighbor. been trying to catch them. What do I put down in bottom to whole the water in?
Pond liner
What happened to the hi-resolution then? Your video tops out at 240p, GoPros get like 720-1080p easy.
cool video have you though of adding gravel to the bottom and pipes and niches for the prawns to hide?
FOOKIN PRAWNS
Thanks for watching
It is a GoPro