Feeding Plankton and Zooplanton to Tilapia and Crawfish. Home grown fish food

[Sfloridalures]

U can eat tilapia lol fun fact

[DAgosto5]

ya but ur tank is so cloudy so why do this if u can enjoy ur tank?

[otivaeey]

wikihow.com/Run-a-Self-Suffici­ent-Intensive-Aquarium-(Aquacu­lture)

This is how you run a self sufficient aquarium. I can't imagine how this amount of daily feeding can contribute to the nutrient consumed by a typical growing tilapia, they consume grammes of algae, that is purely not enough.

[justincabalfin]

nice place

[badboyorganics]

This is interesting how this works..... and you do this daily?

All this has a zero cost since you created it?

Devin

BBO

[esidrdave]

@badboyorganics.There is no need to buy fish food. Larger tilapia are being fed worms plus topping off tanks with algae water and zoo animal yummies.

[badboyorganics]

@esidrdave have you ever tried to figure up the cost of running your system(s) on a daily, weekly or monthly basis?

Devin

-BBO

[esidrdave]

@badboyorganics . we're in the process of analyzing mass balance on these systems for everything. cost, return, feed input, plant growth, algae nitrogen, worm nitrogen and casting tea nitrogen, etc. we'll be posting on algosolar dotcom as a tool for bioponic and aquaponic growers as well as permaculture.

[nualgi]

We have a much simpler process to grow Diatom Algae directly in the Aquariums.

There would be no need to grow algae in separate tanks and then harvest it and put in the aquariums.

Our product is called Nualgi.

[esidrdave]

@nualgi

I looked over your site. Nice sounding product. You work with diatomaceous algae, if you have a spirulina starter that would be very useful. My preference for nutrients is for organic fertilizer grown on site. Prefer to grow cycanobacteria aka spirulina and accomodate locally for its nutrient needs including high pH. otherwise for fish only an indigenous poly variety of algae is best as they will populate naturally.

[nualgi]

@esidrdave

Diatoms are better food for fish than Cyanobacteria.

I have replied in detail to your gmail account.

[dmacosta1]

so kool

[happygameshow]

So did you have to put the worms in your algae system or did they just show up one day? Very cool setup makes feeding seem like a lot of fun. How long have the fish been off the fish food and on the algae diet?

[esidrdave]

@happygameshow Everything occurs spontaneously. Much of the feed is mosquito larvae. I try to get to the algae beds dailyh so they don't get big enough to hatch in to mosquitos. The crawfish and baby tilapia have been fed this way most of the summer.

[esidrdave]

@esidrdave There are also bloodworms in the water which the fish love most of all. These are larvae from non-biting, mosquito-like insects known as midges.