Worms in Aquaponics!
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2016
- I got some more worms from Uncle Jim's Worm Farm and added them to my aquaponic grow beds:) Fun fun fun! I added a lot more because I need them to to eat waste in my system and lay eggs so I can get more worms! There poop will go right into the water and make nutrients available to the plants right away!
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Plecostomus are great for sump clean up until temps drop below 65. Then you can trade them in at the pet store for fish food and get a new one when temps rise. Or move them inside through the winter. The little ones come in many attractive varieties. Dwarf albinos , bushy nose (technical name L-166) Plecos are My fave. The males max out at 6 inches.
They also LOVE veggies so you can throw some of your greens in to feed them.
I got some more worms from Uncle Jim's Worm Farm and added them to my aquaponic grow beds:) Fun fun fun! I added a lot more because I need them to to eat waste in my system and lay eggs so I can get more worms! There poop will go right into the water and make nutrients available to the plants right away!
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i love coming back to your videos every year or so and seeing that we have both had very similar ideas
the only difference is you are actually living it and doing it, im just planning for when i move out
I would love to see the follow up to this! Very interesting concept!
Always nice to see new videos great video matt
A couple freshwater snails would keep your guppie tank spotless and they won't get too far out of the water to escape. But the shrimp said before is also a good idea, probably not as hearty at the snails though.
Looks like a cool aquaponic system :)
I use worms in my aquaponics system swell as some homemade KNF inputs. love your channel.
+Aloha Terps, they do such a wonderful job and I'm so happy that I added them to my AP system! - You may also like some of my other channels! I personally am starting to work on The Fish Tank channel but you can see all of them on our network page here - www.HomeIdeasNetwork.com
How do you stop the worms from drowning?
9:53
So eating IS work. I knew it...
Love your laugh lol, we all do slip sometimes..:P
Hi! Interesting idea, will test this out in my grow bed. I am curious: how do you keep them from entering your siphon?
Gerben Wiersma, you know I really haven't had too. They seem to avoid that area very well because I never see worms in my sump tank.
USE DAPHNIA MAGNA!
they won't go via siphon. ...they keep away from it...
After watching the video I learned a lot thank you so much
Do you have a followup video as to how well the worms have done?
What you need is E.M!! Effective microorganisms do a great job cleaning ponds, quickly. Check it out, they clean whole lakes and sores with them.
Looking it up:) Thanks!
That container is actually perfect for shrimp
You probably already found this out but those worms are going improve Everything in your beds. I've been using them for over a year and they keep my beds thriving. Thank you for sharing with us and keep up the videos. I'm really into Aquaponics and love to see what other people can come up with.👍
How do you stop the worms from drowning?
@@tegannottelling They can live their entire lives under water no problem. They breath through their skin.
Dont worms drown lol that's like Fishing 101
Yes, they sure can but worms breathe through their skin and in my AP system the water is highly oxygenated so they live a really really long time in my water:)
What kind of worms are these& would you suggest earth worms?
Is there a follow up video to this? I want to see if it worked.
Did you make an update video? How did it go adding all those worms?
I would suggest when doing this to put the worms in the strainer and run some water through it to get the coir off. Best to be done in a dimly lit area. Too much sunlight will stress them out and they have already been stressed during shipping. No direct sunlight is the best way to go. Good luck.
Hi. I have half barrel grow beds such as yours and was wondering if you had problems with the lightweight expanded clay floating and mounding up to the sides. The few plants I have going so far move around and get pulled down into the clay so I have to constantly re position the plants. Any advice?
you don't appear to have much of guppies in there... it looks working though, but can you tell me your proportions for plants vs fishes in there?
Depends on your system for a IBC I use 4 Koi... to many and you have too much waist. Some people use 25 plus tilapia in a 50 gal barrel although I am sure you would have to filter more. Every system is different and gold fish and KOI are Messy... Cleaner fish like trout and tilapia are better.
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Great video! Could you use freshwater shrimp? I have space limitations and I need to build a system like this indoors because its way too cold here. What kind of fertilizers, nutrients and food I need to use if I grow chilis? All the tutorials I seem to find are large operations and I don`t have the resources for those. I'm pretty clueless about aquaponics so if someone here could give me any tips or links I would appreciate it greatly. Thank you!
Do the worms have any issues moving around clay pebbles in the bed? Always heard they like soft and moist environments.
Hey you know what I was thinking... Have u seen Cherry Red Shrimp? It looks like you have the perfect environment not only for shrimp, but breeding... All that algae and detritus they would thrive... You could then sell the cherries or populate your other tanks, though I herd the only problem with cherries is they breed too much... One friend started with 15 and had 80 in 5 months... Not too much of a drawback in your system since they would populate it quickly but then ... lol
Let me know, and I'm looking for other shimp to recommend for you... I think bamboo filter shrimp, and maybe Crystal Reds or crystal blacks, they would look stunning from the top down but I know they like 0 nitrates, ph at 6.6 to 7 ( for breeding) and temps from 60 to 78... So the cherries are very tiny and prolific, the bamboo are a bit larger but still a small shrimp and should do well in an aquaponic system...
I thought about cherries another shrimp the only thing is the temperature drops too low for them during the winter and it is very difficult to heat that amount of water. Also I have to have nitrates in my system in order for my plants to continue to grow. I need to figure this out before I dive into this and start breeding shrimp like cherries:) Keep the ideas coming my friend!
I would do ghost shrimp or maybe crawdads way hardier and easier
It's interesting. All of the aquaponics systems I have seen use a solids filter and a bio filter. Do you use them and still get fish waste in your grow beds?
If you're going to place the worms in the tank and plan to keep them somewhat happy, add an airstone! As for the grow medium, they're going to try and escape that and likely die trying. You have to give them decomposing matter to eat.... Unless you have a shitload of algae or mold in the bottom of that medium, Red Wrigglers in fact eat the mold and algae off the decomposing matter more so than the matter itself. This is why you'll see a lack of that kinda stuff in worm bins
Ahhh, "solids in my grow bed" Haha! Okay they're sorted! ;)
I look forward to an update.
why clay pellets though. they probably will break down over time. I love worms and the idea. But for my few that i am setting up as simple as possible will use river pebbles and hope to god it dont spike the ph lol. peppor not looking good, also question on this that i have is peppors are acidic. love acidic soil. do you have to balance it out if you throw peppers in there?
You have a lot going on, I am kinda lost. Where is the update on this experiment?
I wonder if there's a worm you could use that prefers to live under water?
I had this same question If I could add red wigglers to a grow bed and ran into this video*** great intel* God bless my friend*
so.....you got the worms to keep down the muck build up in your tanks. but what about the muck (poop) the worms will produce while eating the 1st muck?
Plants eat it
"oxygenates"... thanks for keeping it real! :)
Easier typed then said:) Ha ha ha! Thanks for watching James!
How you ever thought of crawdads in you setup
It’s was in someone else’s post..
Worms are like birds, they have a gizzard and they need sand (to digest well) and (calcium for their eggs)
I could see this working in the pebble grow beds, but I would worry they would not do well in the actual liquid tank. It is not the oxygen in the water so much as my guess is they would absorb too much water and cause internal problems. ie similar to why you should not drink salt water, it throws off the internal cell chemistry. But hey, I am not an expert at it, and if it works for you, great. :) Video was fun to watch either way.
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earth worms in the grow bed of my aquaponics doing well for the last 6 months.... they select the top portion at flood level .... no problem for the last six months ... '
why don't you place a sponge below the water return to catch the solid waste?
Cheers!
i wold like to start a aquaponic farm \
but i wold like to learn about them first
hey good luck
I wold like to know the up date on the worms that were put directly in water with your Frye, they were to eat the waste material, want to know what was the result
They lived until it rained. When it rained the worms climbed out and got into the ground:) I seen like 3 climbing out of that bed and I think that is what happened to them.
thank you
That is a nice strainer I hope you got your wife's permission to use it. LOL.
Ha ha ha! I did ask her:)
Now invent a sysyem so that the fish have access to the worms for food.
how do you control water ph? also is there any clean organic way to control water ph?
iblis khan, that is a very big question because it is hard to control pH organically. You can use R/O water but that process strips the water of minerals that your plants need. You basically have to re-mineralize the water. I ended up using General hydroponics pH down. It worked great and it is made up of mostly phosphoric acid which is the same acid in soda pop.
iblis khan crushed oyster shells in a net bag. it controls ph as well as adding calcium and other trace nutrient content.
I am really interested to know what's happened to this worms in the fish pound? :)
I have not updated this one because the worms crawled out when it rained! A lot of them crawled out of my grow beds as well. I guess they liked it raining more then they liked staying put in my system:) I still have lots of worms in my system but no more in the little pound.
Have you try to understand why they prefered outside than the grow beds and the pound? I mean like this you can keep them in
this (the mass exodus of worms when it rains) is a common problem with outdoor vermicomposting as well. Because red wigglers are negatively phototropic, putting a strip of led lighting around the perimeter of your tank and grow media will discourage the worms from leaving them when it rains.
I never thought it was possible but while disassembling my dad’s aquaponics system, there were earth worms that were alive and healthy!
Yeah, they live in there for years:)
I have doubts about the worms in the water. It contains WAY less oxygen than air, even at full saturation.
Also they might take up too much water due to the osmotic pressure and die. There's a reason they come to the surface when it rains.
What species of worms are they?
Hello From PA. I have visited ( Driven very close to the worm farm). I live in Crawford county Pa , Are you from Pa as WELL ?
Don't the die in water???Do u use bell siphon???
Thanks for this technique.. soon I will start a farm in my city where 15 million people are living :)
If there is lots of air in the water then they will not die:) In systems like this there is lots of air so the worms will be fine! Yes, I have a video on how to make a bell siphon. Cool! We need more people growing in AP systems!
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Can u tell me how to catch the worms when the multiplies ...Please make a video on
How to catch worms
What will eat the warm poop?
The worm poop dissolved into the water and is eaten by the plants :-)
Just wondering what is the purpose of the colander? Could you not just drop a handful of worms in the growbed?
Hindsight is 20 20 my friend:) I guess I could have and next time I will. It was to catch any excess junk from the worm bedding but it did not work as good as I had thought it would.
Caroline Blondeau , I thought the same thing, but the worms feel like they escape from the colander. Then they dive into the grow bed. For some reason, without the colander, half of them try to escape the grow bed.
Well Caroline worms are usually sold in or with bedding, soo the idea is they will separate themselves from the bedding and crawl into the bed. Then you simply remove the colander and add worm bedding to compost or back in your worm bin, plants etc... His worms were so clean it he could have skipped that step, but he was doing it the right way, your totally supposed to use a colander ;)
Thanks for the help in answering this question that Caroline has David Foley and Bryant Fernquist:)
They do eat the poop but they exert 99%of it out . Worms only digest the microorganisms present on the decaying matter
There digestive system have beneficial bacteria (that stick to the worm poop )helps to break down the decaying matter (the real hero’s)
Only thing the worms do is break down the waste into small pieces
In a aquaponics system this is bad like really bad
The beneficial bacteria end up dying in water
And the worms break the waste into small pieces
Which sink down to the bottom and help gunk build ( since there are no beneficial bacteria present on the worm poop to convert it into plant food )
Great video. Very informative and helpful. I use lava rock as my grow media. Would you recommend adding worms to that media?
Does your flood and drain work off a timer?
Nope, I have a constantly running:)
I want to put a end to the worms dieing in the water for years I dug up plants along creeks and in the water and found hundreds of work in the roots the water only bother them I seen when the temperature got cold seeing lots and lots of baby worms they thrive just like they do on land.
So I'll ask 'the' stupid question … why did you not dig trenches way deeper to begin with so the worms would be directly in moisture from the get go and away from any light?
That’s not a stupid question and that is actually a little more logical than what I was doing. I was doing it this way for film purposes:) I wanted to see the worms and get it on film.
What I liked most from your show.......the Blessing at the end!!!! God Bless you too!
Ha ha ha:) God Bless you more my friend!
How did the worms in the guppy tank do? Do you have a video of an after? I'm interested to see if they cleaned it or just died? I know there are some fish that specialize in eating waste and algae been wondering I if those might work better...
We had a rain storm come in and programs crawled out of the tank that had the guppies in it. They did live in there for about two months then that rain came and they left at night. I never found any dead worms.
I’ve got THOUSANDS of tiny larva, almost like mosquito larvae in my 5 gallon hydroponic system. Anyone have a clue what these are? They do not flip around like mosquito larvae, they just kind of lie on the bottom of the tubes.
What happened? Where’s the next video?
When irma struck Florida down at my local park the worms all floated to the top and drowned. There was thousands of dead worms :C
nice !
Did the worms die in the fry tank?
Chris Shepherd good question. I don't think they could survive in water as they usually live above water level. curious to know if that worked...
No, they did not die but they eventually moved out due to the lack of food. The water itself has LOTS of oxygen in it and worms are able to breath through there skin:)
I make sure that my stand pipe is 2" lower than the height of my grow media. This allows the worms a space above the flood area. Example would be a 12" tall grow bed with a 10" tall stand pipe. I never have ammonia spikes from dead worms, and I see them when I take out a plant, as they're wrapped around the roots in the hydroton.
That is what I do as well:) My worms can go from water to air really easy.
A little further science going on here too. The worms can breathe for awhile in water, as long as it is well oxygenated. I run powerheads in the tank to help aerate and increase dissolved oxygen. When your bed is flooding, put your fingers down into the media. When the water starts draining you can feel the air being pulled into the grow beds. This helps oxygenate the roots and also creates different water saturation and temperature levels for the worms. I find them in all different levels in the beds. One day I was cleaning a tank with a scratch pad, I left it on top of the grow bed by accident. When I came back later to feed fish I found that the worms had come up and were cleaning (eating) the algae that was on the pad. Worms are industrious opportunists and quite hardy. I often find egg pods when cleaning roots from harvested plants. FYI: The worms are red wigglers that came from Uncle Jim's and were part of a vermicomposting setup.
No a good idea, Ph level rises, worms will move onto plant roots if food depleted, compost will do this.
Hey man whats the name of the grow media you use? the little ball like things?
+Sebthegrand, it's called Hydroton or Clay pebbles. The kind I get is made by Nutrifield:)
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Sebthegrand, awesome man:)
it's sometimes also called expanded clay. the way I understand it, they're clay balls which are fired in an oxygen rich atmosphere which gives them lots of small holes to hold water. when I started in hydroponics, I didn't have these and just grew in fish tank stone. it worked well for the most part. I had to flood the bed more often, but I kept the flood cycle down under a minute anyway. the weight can add up pretty quick with stone too. the clay balls are very light weight for their size and hold water much better.
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Worms drown. Haven't you ever seen them in puddles after a rain storm?
Worms drown in water that has almost 0 oxygen in it. In this water I run air pumps in it all the time. Worms breath through there skin so the worms do not die in my water:)
What about bsf larvae?
ok i commented to soon. i see some one had already asked that. lol
Hazel Blair, well there you go:)
Earthworms have lungs
Can I use worms from my backyard?
I’ve put them in my system but never seen them again. There’s a difference between nightcrawlers and composting worms (Red wigglers). Nightcrawlers do come up to the surface but they mainly live lower in the soil. In an AP system they cannot go as deep as they would like because the water. Red wigglers on the other hand stay closer to the surface their whole lives which makes them perfect for AP systems:)
Were the worms successful
whats the name of the worms?
They are called red wigglers or composting worms:) Hope that helps Omar!
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worms not dead in water ?
Worms eat soil!
worms die in water ?
Why didn't you just add the worms into the clay pebbles???
I did add them to the pebbles:)
Slow cooking worms with hot pellets
Nope, they’re all still alive and it’s been over a year:)
This looks so complicated.
You drowned the worms
Those poor worms
Add placos
I have some in my sump tank and fish tank. They eat and poop as well.
I have red worms in my system... :majorme2
How about bsf larvae?
EARTHworms don't live in water.
Worms do drown u know so ........
crazy if they are earth worms they will drown sorry mate
I have both earthworms and red wiggles in my system and I have not seen any dead. Of course I probably wouldn't see their bodies but I would get a spike in ammonia when I test the water. Every time I dig down into the clay pebbles there are plenty of live worms. I also see earthworms. I do have an air pump running in my fish tank and that adds lots of oxygen to the water. Worms breathe through their skin so maybe that's why I don't have die off.
This is a bad idea. Worms are not aquatic creatures. Even if the water is oxygenated worms don't absorb oxygen from the liquid in soil. They absorb it from the air in soil which is why worms die if your bedding is too moist and soppy. They also won't feed regularly because they are probably more concerned with getting out of the water.
All I can say is it’s working great and it has been for many years now. You are missing something from your equations. My grow beds are flood and drain. It does this every 15 minutes or less which keeps the worms right at about the surface of the clay pebbles or a little lower. They feed on the dead or dying plant matter in my beds. I’ve even found tons of worm eggs so they are breeding.
worms are not aquatic