Aquaponics Made Easy 02 DVD

Murray Hallam speaking about using the correct ratio of Grow Beds to Fish Tanks when designing your Aquaponics system.
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• Murray
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• Fish
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[handsomedevil888]

very interesting video, iam preparing a concrete tank outside my garden and planning to grow a cream dory, iam just wondering what will be the best grow bed since iam residing here in the philippines,iam not if i can find the same grow bed that you are using.

[flashtoons]

Google IBC 1000 litre tanks.

[gaggelou]

Hi, I plan to deploy Aquaponics on my indoor fish farm as a means to filter out ammonia from the fish water. I deploy big fish tanks of 40 m3 of water each. I need to calculate the optimum plant population as well as hydroton quantity to achieve perfect filtering of this water quantity. Is there a proven analogy (i.e., plant population and/or hydroton quantity to fish water quantity) that ensures a well-balanced nitrogen cycle? Your assistance would be invaluable.

[flashtoons]

Yes Google Dr Wilson Lennard Fish Sizing Calculator

[superpunchy71]

Why not just fill the pool to say 1/4 full, put the fish in and then put the plant tray beds inside the pool elevated on stilts above the water?

[flashtoons]

Yes good point. That will work.

[NOSMOJEFF]

BALANCE is the tipping scale if man is to recover from the mess we are in

[MickScarborough]

A smaller above ground pool is the answer

[OverSoulMatrix33]

things is your pool is full of rain water, who knows what is in the rain water these days with all the geo engineering and chemtrails...

[orly152]

Hi, I just started looking into the aquaponics (Plants/fish) set up...so I'm clueless when it comes to this but very much interested. I was wondering what would happen if the power went out for 1, 2, 3, months or even a year or more in a total disaster country wide. How would you keep the equipment running without any power ? I taken the fish would die off without water circulation.

[dramey03]

i love murray and have learned SOOOO much from him, but i slightly disagree here

aquaponics in a pool IS possible and has been done, i have seen a group here on youtube that uses an old pool and even incorporates chickens into the system, its beautiful

he is absolutely right about the grow beds, you need balance, and room is a giant factor, but with the right amount of room, the proper size fish stock, a pool CAN work

sorry to disagree murray but still love you and look forward to learning

[buffaloborn71]

So I can just toss a few fish into my swimming pool and call it good ?

[RedMarineNex]

@superpunchy71 Excellent idea. Might be a little tricky to build the grow beds/stilts inside the pool, and access could be problematic, but otherwise, great idea!

[flashtoons]

A tank of that size would require a seriously large pump and thousands of fish to provide the necessary nutrients to grow the plants. Aquaponics is all about maintaining a balance between fish-mass ratio and growbed space. Too much water and not enough fish wont give your plants sufficient nutrients for them to thrive and grow.