Commercial Farming
Backup Oxygen Supply Design
Failure of equipment or energy supply will happen so backup oxygen is a must. Planning for these events is paramount when designing your system. One of the core functions of Aquaculture Engineers, is to mitigate against risks. Backup Oxygen supply …
Aquaponic Exchange Rates – Aquaculture
The principles behind aquaponic exchange rates, in dual loop systems are driven by the need to exchange water from the recirculating aquaculture system. This water exchange is a water quality requirement for the safe and healthy production of the fish …
Stock Management in Aquaponics
We are at the beginning of the design phase of a commercial aquaponic system planned to be built this year. Designing an aquaponic system can look relatively simple, however during the design phase, you soon notice aquaponic stock management can …
Drought Proof Aquaponics
Can growing food in the desert, or anywhere be drought proof? How much water do we use and is it sustainable? All great question, no doubt. Can we claim aquaponics is drought proof or more recently, “Use less water than …
Aquaponic Mineralization – The Process
The aquaponic mineralization process we used in the UAE build is a great topic to discuss. When we first started that 3600 square meter raft we had only 100 fish running it. No surprise 100 fish will not run nearly …
20 Ton Tilapia Farm – Part 10 – Feed Loading
The final part of our 20 ton Tilapia fish farm design puzzle, the full feed loading on the system. We take a detailed look at the loading for the aquaculture farm over the production period for all of the batches …
20 Ton Tilapia Farm – Part 9 – Daily Feed
Now we get down into the design and work out our daily feed rates for each week in production on our 20 ton Tilapia farm. From our previous calculations on feed, we break it down into each stage and watch …
Fish to Feed Calculations
Sometimes we want to work backward from the plant side of an integrated aquaponic system, where we have determined the amount of feed we need per day to support the plant growth. One of our members requested information on how …
20 Ton Tilapia Farm – Part 8 – Feed Calculations
Making feed estimations for our 20 ton tilapia farm will define the life support systems for the aquaculture system. We will use the feed conversion ratio to determine the daily feed rate for each stage of growth. The FCR is …
20 Ton Tilapia Farm – Part 7 – Tanks DIY
Making tanks onsite is my preferred method when building farms because shipping costs for “air” is expensive especially if the manufacturer is not close by. If you have some skills to put tanks together onsite or you can contract someone …
20 Ton Tilapia Farm – Part 6 – Tanks
Now we understand our batching through our production and our previous density calculations on our 20 ton tilapia farm design, we move onto defining the tank sizes and number of fish tanks through each stage. There is two parts to …
20 Ton Tilapia Farm – Part 5 – Stocking
With more understanding how moralities effect our tilapia fish farm design we move onto stocking calculations which help determine the tank size and loading rates for our life support systems later in the series. Fish stocking densities can be confusing …
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