Mineralisation Tank Install
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
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I was tired of needing to flush the swirl filter every day so I came up with this design to automatically get the solids moved to a mineralisation system.
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Hi Rob, things are looking great again! Good luck with the cleaning setup.
I love seeing brains come up with solutions to problems.
Nice as always...
I went a little different route. I took a 5 gallon water jug, the refillable kind you put on a water cooler, turned it upside down and cut the large end off and used it as the swirl filter. A rubber expansion plug caps the bottom of the cone. Then I connected a gravity line from the swirl filter to a 15 gallon tote filled to the water line with growstones to act as the mineralization zone... hope it works out, just finished the other day...
Nice build Rob. You still happy with the way it's working ?/
Cheers.
Curious on this question too.
Nice looking system. My understanding of Mineralization Tanks is they never need cleaning. If you clean them weekly the material won't have time to mineralize.
+jmartin015 I believe it takes about 4 weeks or so. I've been cleaning this out every 2-3 weeks. It can go longer but the water gets a bit thick. Any nutrients that are remaining when I dump the sludge just goes around the fruit trees so it really isn't going to waste....just not in the AP system. ;-)
you need smaler fish or other water animals who break down the waste just like worms and bacteria in the beds. you can find them in the nature, give them a good place to stay in any tank, and you will have a bit less junk in the water. i saw a sponge with really small crustaceans in another aquaponic video. that may work
It's been a pretty prob productive day I watch pretty much all your videos and enjoyed it a lot!
I didn't have much luck with fish eating lettuce even when boiled as friends recommended. I had a variety of kinds of fish too.
Your poem the fought track for sure. Thanks for sharing
For a second I though you invented a tank that materialized food!
may be your swirl filter is a bit too small compare to your fish tank size :) but nice cover up built anyway. :) Good job
add in a giant dirt filter with a tree in it, that is on top of a carbon filter. then you have a water recycling process.
Your previous setup seemed to be working fine without the swirl filter, as seen in all of the videos prior to the fire/smoke damage you had a few months ago. What promoted you to add the swirl filter, and do you foresee this removing some of the nutriants that had previously nourished your system? I though that the whole purpose of "Fish & Plants was to include the solid waste as nutrient? If not than wouldn't a 1,2,or 3 step solid waste filter (murray hallamvideos) be more efficient and less costly to setup and maintain?
Also,
What biological mineralization process is actually taking place ? This really appears to essentially be a 2 phase sedimentation system?
Thanks for the videos.
***** I'm planning on expanding the system and the (future) extra fish will overwhelm the media beds. Most larger systems usually don't have a lot of media beds since they will collect too much of the solids.
Why do you have to drain the solids from the mineralization tank? Isn't the point that the mineralization tank breaks down the solids?
Isn't the whole purpose of a mineralization tank to have anaerobic break down of solids in your system. Then the nutrients that you don't get from the aerobic process, nitrogen mainly, are able to fertilize the plants.
VBCreeper Or through some form of media remove nitrates through anaerobic break down of solids.
maybe he is working on it, as of now this is just a sludge tank IMO.
VBCreeper From Dr. Wilson Lennard PhD "Both approaches will produce mineralisation of the fish waste solids ... However, aerobic mineralisation works faster than anaerobic mineralisation and so should be encouraged (Wallece & Knight, 2006). Therefore, in aquaponic systems we should try and encourage aerobic solids mineralisation as it operates more efficiently than anaerobic solids mineralisation."
"... anaerobic bacterial solids breakdown may cause a number of negative outcomes, such as the release of substances that may be toxic to the fish and other micro-organisms in the system and the raising of system pH."
Bigelow Brook Farm (Web4Deb) Your research on those matters deserves credit, kind sir.
Bigelow Brook Farm (Web4Deb) Thanks for sharing that reference -- citing source research is hugely appreciated.
icarus901 Thanks.It's from an article he wrote "Aquaponic System Design Parameters: Solids Filtration, Treatment and Re-use" - 2012
Can the solids be used as a fertilizer source in another garden outside of this system? Similar to vermicompost I guess.
I love this video great build
Great video. Thanks. One question: Where did you buy the clear conical plastic attached to your bucket? Thanks
It's a flat piece I bent into a cone. I don't use that any more. Also you should build a radial flow filter instead of a swirl filter.
Where did you buy your equipment???
What materials are safe to use as bio filter media (types of plastic etc)? What about wiffle balls?
Love your life hacks! :-)
Thanks!
Have you tried growing duckweed to feed your fish instead of lettuce?
Citizen Brain somewhere in my videos there's one about growing salvinia. Overall, duckweek or salvinia is a good snack, but can't sustain fish since it's about 97% water.
Nice video do you think the two tank designs could be incorporated into one?
wemme perhaps, but it may become difficult to perform maintenance on it.
Do you have a qualification in engineering or do you come up with these through your knowledge of farming?
Sandwich247 both!
Bigelow Brook Farm (Web4Deb) Really? Do you mind if I ask what qualification you have?
Sandwich247 I grew up next to my grandfather's commercial greenhouses. While in college for electronic engineering, I working at a civil engineering firm designing sewage systems.
Bigelow Brook Farm (Web4Deb) Cool! The more you know, eh?
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I was wanting to put a a piece of plexiglass window inside of a trash can for us and make a trash can out of a i fish tank and I was wanting to put up make it window in when I can see my fish to the trash can how do you do that without it leaking
I doubt it would work. Trash barrels are very thin and flexible.
Would barley straw work instead of HDPE as long as you add screen to the cone separator?
PropellerHeadVA I'm not sure what the purpose of barley straw would be. I've heard some of the pond folks say it helps with algae, but it will eventually decompose. Do you want to use it as a biofilter?
Could you add a skimmer on the top or does that defeat the purpose of this tank?
+Ryann Large It may be possible. I don't get much on there if I don't feed the fish any lettuce so it really hasn't been a problem.
Is there any particular reason why system accumulate waste that fast? Or that's usual?
bergonius It's typical. Usually it just disappears in the media beds but it can overwhelm them over time.
whats the djferent with bio filter tank ?
firstly, i though you invented a tank that change the solid waste into rock.. 😂
Harvest rainwater To supplement usage
my filter system is like this swirl filter goes to tank
the tank is in three parts bottom is where water comes in then filter sand then 2 foot at top where water over flows to sump where my one pump runs the whole system....
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請問5:36秒的鏡頭裡.那不動又生青苔雜質的水.是有什麼作用??
lee 無明 好像是被过滤掉鱼的便便后的水，是要送回到水循环系统里的，不过过滤的不干净，总有一些菜渣跑进来
جيد
Sort of a mutated radial flow filter.
where did you get the swirl filter container from? cheers
+Baris Yilmaz Side of the road. $30. ;-)