Aquaponics Module 3 - ECHOcommunity.org

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Module 3
Growing more fish and plants for human consumption and enjoyment
Review: Module 2 - Beds, Filters
What are the filter types?
•Ebb and Flow
•Flow through
•River bed
•Deep gravel
•Strawberry tower
•NFT
Nutrient Film Technique
•DWC
Deep water culture
•Raft method
What does the bell siphon do?
•Aerate water in gravel beds
•Aid biofiltration
What else do Grow beds do?
•Grow plants
•Collect solids
•Host earthworms
•Convert Ammonia
Cost?
Develop safe reliable system using one pump
(cid:57) Utilize gravity
(cid:57) Understand head, hp to watts to kwh to
cost
(cid:57) GFIC required
Understanding dissolved oxygen
(cid:57) Venturi
(cid:57) Sheeting
(cid:57) Use Flow form aeration where ever
possible
Understanding filtration
(cid:57) Gravel beds for trapping solids and also
for additional biofiltration
(cid:57) Ebb and flow – Build simple bell siphon
prototype
(cid:57) Flow through beds
(cid:57) NFT- Nutrient film technique
(cid:57) Low cost main biofilter
Plants are for
(cid:57) Nitrate removal
(cid:57) Ammonia removal
(cid:57) CO / carbonic acid production
2
Meet plant fertilizer needs
First Prototype (cid:57) Grow plants in soil if not aquatic
(cid:57) Soil based plants - vermicast, cocopeat
(cid:57) Dependant on capillary action of potting
soil – we have ideal materials
N
2 Denitrification
NO
2
NO Nitrification
3
NH
3 Ion Balance
H+
NH +
4 Gas Stripping
TAN
Mineralization
BOD Bacteria
Solids
Alkalinity Addition
BOD Reduction
CO
2
Dissolved Refractory
Management
Inert Aeration
Solids
O
2
Solids Removal
Modified version from Ronald F. Malone, Dept of Civil Engineering, Louisiana State University
Full time security
Bed types for plant types
Soil based Plants get soil
Water based plants get gravel
Floating Plants get to Float
Conventional Aquaponics
Grow Medium:
Perlite, rock wool,
coir, peat, synthetic
Tank Solids Hydroponic
Biofilter Sump
Culture Removal Subsystem
Settled solids
Suspended solids Plants Grown in
soil less medium
Raft method--DWC
NFT

$.09 start plugs
(4 peso)
Compressed Bark
Biofiltration
Bacci tower installed