Handy Tips and Articles
Fish Filters for Home
We spent a little time re-configuring our experimental fish farm here at home, took a few photos and whacked up a video of the fish filters for home and how we use only venturis to aerate this system. It has …
Earthan Beds – How they go together
In response to many people wanting to know how we make the Earthan Beds work, here is a break down with a bit more detail on how to get it right when connecting them to your aquaponic system at home. …
School Aquaponics The Aquaculture
This post takes us back 5 years ago when we started building the school aquaponics system at Coombabah Primary School. To set the scene, we had been asked to look at building “some type of garden” and shown a slab …
Biofilter Aeration – How much do you need?
Following up on our previous discussion about Aeration, Air Diffusers and Air Stones let’s take a closer look at biofiltration Aeration. Moving bed biofilters require substantial air. The air is providing mixing of the biomedia and oxygen for the bacteria …
Aeration, Air Diffusers or Air Stones
We have touched on water flow rates or tank exchange rates and how they affect the amount of oxygen available to your fish or what amount of feed you can apply to a tank full of fish per day assuming …
Life and Death of a 14 IBC Aquaculture System – The beginning
This is an interesting hobby aquaculture story about when we were exporting 100kg of Australian Redclaw Crayfish to the UK. Back then the exchange rate was 2.41 and the crayfish were selling for 38 pounds per kilo. While this looks …
Aquaponics Media Grow Bed for Nitrification
As we have said before, there is plenty of information around the internet on aquaculture and aquaponics, some of it great and some of it interesting. One of the confusing topics we see discussed is around media bed sizing for …
Nutritional Analysis of Aquaponic Produce
Is aquaponic produce “better than organic”, is it better than hydroponics? In this article we take a look at three leafy greens produced in aquaponics and how they stand up to standard nutritional results, organic farming, traditional agriculture and hydroponic …
Quality of Your Fish Counts
Planning a great design for your fish farm is only one step to success be it integrated with plants in aquaponics or stand alone. When there is high competition out there in the market place you need a strong point …
Estimate Water use in Aquaponic Systems in 5 Easy Steps
Water is essential for growing pretty much anything. Aquaponic systems and aquaculture systems are no different. It is the be all and end all of food production. If you don’t have enough water, your plants want grow and your fish …
Trickle Filters – Nitrification or Degassing
What a trickle filter is and how to design one for aquaculture or even aquaponics is a question on many peoples minds entering the commercial and even the home aquatic field. They are often overlooked. In this article we take …
Oxygen Verses Aeration
One of our members emailed me referencing a video where I talked about oxyfertigation and stated the oxygen uses less energy than aeration in the rafts. I was specifically talking about liquid oxygen in comparison the 80kw-h it would take …