Unlocking HIDDEN POTENTIAL in fish waste! Building a mineralization tank for aquaponics
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- It turns out that most aquaponic systems are missing out on a lot of the nutrients that are available to them! In this video I talk all about mineralization tanks and how they can greatly increase your system's ability to utilize nutrients by digesting all of that poop your fish make. I also show you how I built mine!
Link to Bigelow Brook Farms' video on a more intricate mineralization tank design: • Big Aquaponic Greenhou...
Link to Dr. Wilson Lennard's Aquaponic Factsheet on solid waste management, which includes further guidelines for mineralization tanks (including sizing): www.aquaponic.c...
*Please note that I did NOT follow the correct sizing procedures in the above link because I was unable to get an accurate measurement of daily average effluent production from my swirl filter. The sizing that I chose for my tank is a very rough approximation. I HIGHLY recommend that you size your mineralization tank using the above guidelines if at all possible.*
UPDATE: It has been brought to my attention that the figures for pump sizing in this video are not correct for this use case. The 60 LPM pump I am running on this 20 gal mineralization tank is slightly too small. For a tank of this size I would have gotten the next size up. Despite this, the mineralization tank is functioning quite effectively!
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Very good informative video. However that music gets a little loud and distracting at times when you're talking.
Also sometimes you speak too fast, otherwise great stuff
We like to refer to our own designed system as a "Nutrient Generator". We use the nutrients to feed in stages to feed in the greenhouse plants as well as field crops thru drip emitters. With drip setups the water has to be filtered like crazy without stripping out the goodies.
It's something I'm trying to implement at my farm. Hope I can more details from you Sir
Youd be a great teacher mate! Excellent video
Hi,
Is there a way to convert fish waste into clear water?
Thanks & Regards,
Kamlesh Dhruv
I HIGHLY recommend using a full drain tank for this. your cleanouts will be way easier. also building small systems first as prototypes. i used a 5gal water bottle upside down with the bottom cut out for my pond filter. theres a relatively common size rubber coupler (2.5in?) that fits them.
also those chinese made ecoair pumps are great. ive had one running for years straight, and it's outside in the elements too. also their ecoplus mag drive water pumps are great, have one running my fsh tank sump for 8 years now.
Good videos man! Keep them coming.... I Subscribed!
LOL, look at these "suggestions/complaints" in the comments.
this was really well done man, Appreciate the work, very simple and well designed.
The music and editing is to make it sicker, and pump you up to build it. These complainers will never build anything anyways man. Keep up the good work.
Just subscribed man. Keep it up! Love your explanation, and thank you for sharing the paper
I'm from Indonesia by the way, so good to see a young man to have a concern in sustainable farming (in which i cant find a lot in my country). I have been planning and slowly building my own aquaponic system so i hope i can inspire others, especially the youth. just like u inspire me
Just what I was looking for.
You made it so simple.
Thanks for sharing the wealth of information.
Appreciate your work and frankness.
Is it possible to let it mineralize for 4 weeks?
Would you add red worms to it?
Hi. Does all the fish poop gets decomposed in the MT? Noticed that you do not have a bottom drain in your MT. Thanks!
Wow makes me wanna garden
you are really crafty
Now after a year of this video ,
Did that idea succeed ?
What changes on plants appeared after this while?
Did you face any problems ?
After this experiment what are the results ?
So far this mineralization tank has been working really well! I have had to reduce the need to supplement substantially.
I ended up having to increase the air volume flowing through the mineralization tank because it was less effective with the pump I was using in the video. That is the only change I had to make to it.
I will do an updated aquaponic system tour video in the future and I will go over the mineralization tank in that video!
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I'll be waiting for that tour video
thnx
In fish keeping, there are a few sludge eliminating products and some products like api quickstart that help convert ammonia to nitrites and nitrates. I am wondering if you would know if using these would be helpful in speeding up the mineralization of fish wastes and chemicals.
I know that there are nitrogen fixing bacteria in api quickstart and related products but not sure about these so called sludge eliminating products, they don’t seem to have a list of bacteria species they use.
Good question! I only use those types of products when cycling a system or in an emergency situation where there is a deadly ammonia/nitrite spike. A properly designed and functioning system will have a strong microbiome and enough biological surface area to mineralize all fish waste products efficiently
Can you connect a toilet (for human use) to the mineralization tank?
Thank you for sharing. how many days or lets say how often do you drain the solids from your newly installed mineralisation tank?
Once a day! I am flushing out about 30-40% of the volume of the mineralization tank per day right now.
Dig the video,
Thanks
Why is your music obnoxiously loud.
Feel like at skrillex concert. Good music tho
I'm looking for something to use besides fish or yabbies/shrimp, I have a turtle but I'm out of ideas(kiddie pool)
do you have earthworms in the aquaponic media beds?
Yes!
Id like to see a version without all the edit jumps, it bothers me too much to finish the video.
The music interface with the comments. TBH.
Too much editing makes the video very jumpy and it's hard to follow. Slow it down in the future. Good info though.
Sir what is the watts or power of your water pump
This system has two water pumps - each are 1000GPH / 92W
Hopefully I can get this explained by a non goober.
@Poochnaa
click it, hope it helps :D
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Idiotic loop music blaring away. Instant way to ruin a perfectly good clip!