Aquaponics with Portable Farms® Aquaponics Systems
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SOLAR POWERED Portable Farms® Aquaponics System
This new Portable Farms® Aquaponics System (above) is fully solar powered. This new Portable Farms® Aquaponics System has one grow tray that is 6’x16’ (96 sq ft of grow space) which feeds four people FOREVER.
One Portable Farms® Kit provides you with the technology to build one Portable Farms® Aquaponics System that feeds eight people FOREVER. One Portable Farms® Grow Table requires less than ten-minutes of care per day to plant, harvest and feed the fish.
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I am a Catfish Farmer in Nigeria. I currently have a farm with capacity to produce about 2,500 kg of catfish MONTHLY with effect from October 2023. I believe instead of "wasting" waste water from the farm, it can be utilised for Aquaponic farming .
How do I incorporate Aquaponic System in the farm?
Michael,
Set up the Grow Tables or simply run the water into fields where you have planted vegetables.
I have a controlled space, about 600 sq. ft, in a structure on my property that I want to put aquaponics into. There is NO sun light there....what type of grow lights do you recommend?
Tim: You will need 18 hours of grow lights per day but no more than 18 hours. You have a wide choice of grow lights you can use ranging from T-8 fluorescent tubes or red/blue LED lights. I hope this helps.
Phyllis Davis, President, PFAS LLC
Hello there,
Does the commercial Aquaponics GOLD book cover Aquaponics GOLD? Or do we need to get two books? Thank you.
Best regards,
The two books are very different. The Aquaponics Gold covers elements related to growing food and caring for the fish. The Commercial Aquaponics Gold book outlines the considerations for growing food in a commercial business.
I'm looking to setup an aquaponics system that I can haul around in hopes of becoming a nomadic farmer. How do I do this?
I don't know. Sorry.
I'm interested to set up one or more projects in Dubai.
Would this work in such a hot climate? Or it is too expensive to keep it cool enough?
many thanks,
Martin
Martin,
The key, as stated in various places on the website, is to have the installation in a 'climatically adapted structure'. In the hot, dry climates, and everywhere else, this means insuring the interior temperatures stay between 5 and 40C. Several installations in that part of the world are underground and use solar energy to power this building.
Colle
I really am intrigued and moved by Portable Farms. I am a Idaho City HotShot Wild Land Fire Fighter and at the end of this fire season I'd like to take a tour and get an agricultural movement started to feed everyone I can with organic produce. In October I will be traveling through the north west and then over to HI. I am collecting information and technology to help my movement to enlighten individuals to eat well.
Simon,
Good luck in all of your endeavors.
Colle
Hello awasom team !
I am producing sprouts and microgrerens do you think i could use aquaponic to grow them?
I grow sun flower and all sorts of peas, wheatgrass, buckwheat and more
as for the sprouts i am growing alfalfa red clover radish etc.
also, because sprouts and micro greens take up less space than mature plants and veggies i was wondering if you could have an estimate on the size of the system i would need to produce 500 kilograms in one shot ?
thank you for everything
Miri
Miri,
Thank you for the kind words. Sprouts and microgreens are out of our area of expertise. Several people have use aquaponics for growing them, but we have not gone into that arena. Therefore we have no idea about sizing an installation to produce on that scale. Sorry.
Colle
I am going to do this. What do you feed the tilapia?
James,
We feed the tilapia a commercial tilapia/catfish chow. Tilapia are herbivores and if you start when they are very young they will eat duckweed and most vegetable matter chopped very finely. They do not like fuzzy leaves like tomato or squash leaves. They will also eat coffee grounds, but this makes the water dark.
Colle Davis - Inventor
I have done some digging on your website and even used the search bar and could not find the answer to my question so I apologize in advance if I'm asking you for information that is elsewhere.
To give some context to my questions: I live in Northern MN so I'm looking at doing an indoor aquaponics system in our basement for stable year-round food production for 5 people. (which from what I gathered means 125 sq ft of table growing space.
A couple questions:
1. For a 125 sq ft grow table system, How big should the Tilapia tank be? and how many Tilapia are necessary for that type of set-up to maximize the growth potential of the Tilapia?
Thanks in Advance.
Tait,
Thank you for your inquiry. The Portable Farms® Aquaponics Systems has those specifications covered in the AU Class. We have very specific formulas to insure your success.
Colle Davis - Inventor
We trust this helps.
Colle Davis - Inventor
Your system uses a flood and drain gravel bed rather than a float bed. I've been told that the gravel bed is harder to keep clean with repeated plantings, roots that are left behind when plants are harvested, and a "gunk" build up in the gravel. Do you find that to be true and, if not, what do you do to keep it from happening? Is it necessary to periodically replace the stone in the gravel beds? Thanks.
Richard:
We don't replace the bed in the gravel - ever. Occasionally, we will remove an area of gravel to rinse after harvesting a very large plant to rinse out the roots and detritus (for example a large tomato plant which have extensive root systems), but then we put that same gravel back into our grow trays. I hope that answers your question! - Phyllis Davis