Your math is blowing my mind

@@ahmeddavids8634 What 3 + 6 doesn't equal 10?

lol same

Anyone else see that the guy has koi that are almost 24 inches in that tiny tank. Wtf is wrong with this guy

I'd like to be his sharecropper until I learn how to do it myself.

I started something similar last month. I wanted to build a Hydroponic tower that I saw that is capable of growing over 800 plants on 1 foot by 12 foot by 6 foot high. The cost was going to be around $600.00 to build. I have a big yard so I network with a guy that live in a apartment that wanted to do the same. cost us each $300.00 we built it and got our first crops in it of red and green peppers.' we will make about 9 per plant and sell them 3 for a dollar making around $7500 our first crop in another 50 days

altha2008 it’s been awhile how’s your setup now?

@@altha2008 how did it work out?

Is he using solar to provide the electricity? If not how is the farm gonna bring in money? Fertiliser bill, electric bill, water bill

Indeed - the biggest concern about aquaponics is the fish habitat.

Please add more space for those fish!

Agreed, he could make a beautiful backyard pond that serves the same function and increases the value of the house at the same time. Think naturally

they need more space

Almost thought that was hydroponic water,, it looks pretty dirty.. Also feeds twice a day? Please don't feed your fish twice a day... goldfish and koi maybe once a day but anything else just stick with every other, dont feed more than they can eat in 5 minutes

We older guys invented tv and the internet.

Martin Martin Not in school any more, I climb trees and run chainsaws for a living. I'm also a geek, I guess!

There is a daily convention being held in every larger bookstore in America. Bring money.

Andy Wales One of the coolest grandpas on planet Earth.-.

+matthew everett -- Thanks

+Rik Kretzinger: Say, do they make that same container you use for a Fish Tank, in clear plastic?

Hahaha. love that comment man.

Go here if you want the best aquaponics system online: HootAqua. info

Awesome with scaling on the internet. Lol

Will Eberli It's okay because they're hooked up to the Internet.

Will Eberli Agree. That stood out to me. Cool system but ... I couldn't sleep at night knowing I'm running a small fish alcatraz.

Will Eberli Fish carrying capacity is based not only on size of fish, but water volume,filtration and oxygenation. In a good aquaponics system the surface area is huge and includes waterfalls and/or bubblers so oxygenation is near max , the actual volume of water includes all the water in the system and the plants are much better at filtering waste than any mechanical filter. I found that my aquaponics system could sustain many more inches of fish than the tank by itself with normal mechanical filters and bubblers.

Michael Clark​ I understand the water is sustainable for them, but I feel like space to swim is important for their well being too. I'd hope my fish were at least happy with their environment. Just a personal feeling of mine.

Good point. not meaning to sound heartless but maybe it would be better to use a food fish like channel catfish or tilapia, you would get more food production(the fish) without any emotional attachment.

+Number1Paixths -- I keep cleaning the design up. Will now start to scale uin the next year now that my Make article has been published. It is a lot of work get a article published in a major publication when a person has no experience in this area. -- rik

+Marissa Tallant - Thanks - I have even better designs on the way ---- rik

Was thinking the same thing!

I third this.

Same , does he have a company how far along is he with the advancement in the IOT ??

Same. 🥺

I agree!!!

Thanks for the support - I have now started down this path. Maybe that investor will see me in my booth at Maker Faire in San Mateo, May 17 and 18th. Just got excepted to demo the working tower units with all the new supporting tank and filtration designs to make it a total system now. Maybe there will be a video from the show. I will keep you posted on developments here. makerfaire.com/makers/internet-of-farming-arduino-based-aquaponics/

Rik Kretzinger Good luck! We're going to be buying land in the next year or two to start building a house. If there's space I'll let you know.

He can launch a kickstarter campaign to raise money...

Vincent Hu That was my first idea.

Foreal im 25 and want to do this as a living. One day. Turn and program a systen were everyone can do this with ease

Raspberry Pi, Sensor starter kit, ESP32, ESP8266. It's all inexpensive and well documented, with step by step tutorials and online videos. Simply search on Google.

This is more relevant than ever.

@@TheOleHermit - I think he meant that the design of the contraptions could be open source.

@@thedevo01 The contraptions (water level, humidity, temperature, etc) are included in the 'sensor kits' for both Raspberry Pi and Arduino. Open source C++ and Python code is included in the starter kit tutorials. The only parts not included are project boxes to house the contraptions. Those are available in various sizes on Amazon or can be custom made DIY. But, none of these are going to simply arrive on the doorstep nor jump into one's brain. The research takes time and the learning curve can only be overcome with hands on experience. Personally, I love the challenge, 'the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat'. The most memorable lessons and greatest rewards come from overcoming obstacles. I've been at it for over a year and my perseverance is paying off. This gentleman is travelling that same path. It is unavoidable on such a project. 😎

These are the most worthless replies ever. The answer is that everything you want can be had free libre and open source up to a limit. The raspberry pi, for example, had a closed source video driver. This seems inconsequential until you realize an operating system like GNU GuixSD is completely automated until you throw the closed source figurative wrench in the gears. Being closed source, in practice, fucjs everything up. In practice, you should ask, "what is this man doing that the people around me are not doing?" I recognize many of the notions he had from a variety of commercial hydroponics greenhouses. Instead of those tubes and relief valves, one greenhouse went through about 5 different sheet steel bent profiles until, by trial and error, they found one which didn't generate too many maintenance requirements. That is expensive! However, jointed and planed whitewood is cheap. Just use that! Walk through the steps manually. You shall inevitable write a checklist, which will inevitably be too simple-minded for many cases necessitating a flowchart, then a feedback loop, then a graph, then graph generating rules... It is all math. So long as the user can write out steos they do by hand logically, then... mayhaps a mimetic programming system for a robot arm be more intuitive than C programming, despite being more complicated? Might a radio beacon or avoltmetet or a radar be more useful than an internet connection esp32 for monitoring a plant's growth, despite being simpler? You be ask how to program, but you want to ask instead how to think, and the most intuitive way of expressing this man's systems, if a limited expression system, is the lambda calculus first order logic, specifically in the form of GNU Guile... whence you will come upon exactly zero software libraries of interest to you. However, teaching logic makes easy what this man is doing.

He has a lot of big plans. It'd be interesting to check back in on him. Wheredoes he get the cone shaped plugs he plans to start his seedlings in, and use in his towers?

+Josef grafen - thanks, many more things to come on this

I tried looking for a site. Cant find anything yet. He also did the Filtration wrong. But the automation looms spot on.

@@zachhodgson4113 agreed. He should have used less sump pumps and took advantage of gravity. Too many moving parts and sensors to perform tasks that can be simplified using gravity.

I just googled him in 2022, looks like he works at Gilead Sciences and continues to blog and post about aquaponics. The last thing I could find that he posted was in 2021. I bet ya could join one of the forums he’s on and ask him!

Bingo ... the fewer parts there are, the fewer there are to fail. I noticed that he has some of his electronics below his fish tank. That would seem to be of questionable design. It's pretty much a statistical certainty that he will, eventually, have a leak or spill. I am still considering designs, but I have in mind to mix plants above, fish at mid level and mushrooms in the humid shade beneath, all within a hoop house frame with supplemental heat from composting. (fish waste is high N, the neighbors discard, literally, tons of high C fallen leaves each autumn, straw is readily available and reasonably priced and I can add humanure to the mix on a regular basis as long as the city doesn't catch on -- part of the reason for using a hoop-house is to hide the composting operations from the city). I intend to use run-off water from my metal-roofed garage to feed two large cisterns of 10,000 gallon combined capacity with potable water (through sand filters) that can be pumped as make-up water for the aquaponics set up and also for household use. The finished compost will be used in my raised bed garden. I'm trying to figure out what size system it will take to harvest 20# of fish per week. I want to cover all of my own needs, plus have some to distribute to needy neighbors. When the SHTF, good relationships will be worth their weight in gold. Until then, they are still worth having. In Detroit, in raised beds set between two garages (the neighbor let me paint his cinder block garage wall white so it would reflect onto my garden), I grew, organically, quite a bit higher yields than this gentleman with all of his technology seems to be getting. I was getting as much as 2 bushels of green beans a week from 60 square feet of bed. From that same bed, I had canned over 200 qts. of tomatoes (and given literally bushels away) the previous summer. I'm not sure how much cilantro he plans to eat, but those tomatoes lasted my wife and I about 8 years despite giving away numerous quarts of juice. I had two other beds which produced well, remarkably well, but not as well as the bed next to the cinder block wall. I'd like to do that again down here in the Piedmont region of North Carolina. In fact, with the tilapia, I'd like to be >95% food self-sufficient on my 1/4 acre of heaven. :~)

@@wcanaday234 I ran across your comment and it piqued my curiosity. I would love to learn more about your set-up and experience. I'm thinking about starting down the food self-sufficiency push myself but am bewildered/overwhelmed by the number of possible approaches (raised bed gardening, indoor/outdoor hydroponics, indoor/outdoor aquaponics, etc...). Thanks fur any guidance you can provide.

Very difficult to give you a useful answer without knowing where you live and what your other circumstances are. IF you are in America, your county DOES have an agriculture department where you can pick up reading material, classes and expert advice. Your state agricultural college (land-grant college -- every state has one) will be more than happy to (for a very reasonable fee) test your soil. Ask them for an organic analysis. Although I've read some on the topics, I've never done either hydroponics or aquaponics. If you are going to garden organically, I suggest that you look up "Humanure" by Joe Jenkins online. It is available as a free pdf OR as a bound book. Even if you never compost with human manure, it is an incredible guide to composting ANY waste organic material and well worth the price of admission. You can get all "Rube Goldberg" if you want, or you can feed your family with little more than a trowel, some seeds, a spot in the sun and a healthy imagination. The Garden of Eden was 100% organic with next to no tools. My best, and final, recommendation is to just simply start somewhere and, as you learn from that, try new things.

@@bill65761 Thanks for the response, information and encouragement. I appreciate it.

Kevin Maillet Actually, they do water from the top./... the sensor is for quality or valve stuck etc... the water drips down.. or you can run a tube down the middle and put sprayers on it.. or you can put sprayers on the inside of the tube with a small pipe to each.....

Good point - I've done proof of concept aquaponics in the past, but worried about leaching. I've been looking for other materials - clay/terracotta but you need to be sure there is no lead present - which led me to looking for an easy DIY way to test for lead contamination - that's where I'm stuck at now.

HeliosWorksAV try cpvc. Someone else mentioned it in another comment. It's more costly, but it's safe for potable water so it should also work for hydro/aquaponics.

HeliosWorksAV /watch?v=BLmycZ2nrt0 This may help you

hemp ? hemp plastic ...or bamboo ?

Apparently, you're not aware that PVC is being used for domestic water pipes all over the country right now. Exactly what harm to you think comes from it?

+Mohammad Karbaschi Or everything is under engineered :)

+Mohammad Karbaschi Or everything is under engineered :)

+Brotherhood of Steel -- I have found that over engineering is always better on prototypes and more cost effective than under designed and lacking in a total solution. First versions are only that a first version - version 2.0 are always 100 percent better and much more efficient with substantial cost savings. Fact is you have too start somewhere or everything will be stuck in design with nothing ever getting built. That is my view on this thought -- rik

Rik Kretzinger Ah, I was trying to understand what was going on, I think I figured it out. I was making a Joke that everything else in the world was under engineered compared to you're system. If that's what you perceived. I prefer over engineering as well, it's sort of like drilling holes in boards. You can always take off more material, but you can't as easily put it back. Just a side question, how do you feel about plastic Christmas trees? Merry Christmas :)

Just came across this comment and internet of things (IOT) is all the rage today

@@brycecox8249 Wouldnt say "all the rage". But sure some devices can automate some house hold tasks.

@SteeayOtis- I think so also.... rik

Take a shot every time he says 'internet'

But the network's name is... INTERNET. The guy was right.

ya, and people use hydroponics to grow weed, its very efficient.

Hydroponics is great for weed or just about any plant. I've successfully grown several varieties of cacti hydroponically. Hydro gives you precise control and ability to change conditions quickly. Much easier to maintain. Chemical nutrients are already chealated making them available to the plants, unlike organic nutrients which need to be broken down by bacteria. Aquaponics is trickier. Aqua is great for leafy green crops, vegatative growth.. To get any heavy blooms you need to start adding nutrient as fish don't produce it in the right ratios for bloom. Aqua requires a balance to be maintained which must be gently coerced when levels need to be changed- however it will keep itself sustained without water changes much longer than hydro- when done right. Too much nitrogen, not enough potassium or phosphorus. Dont bother with flowering crops.

This system wouldn't be good for Weed. In the budding stage weed likes potassium (K) and aquaponic systems don't produce a lot it so you would have to find a way to introduce it to the system which ruins the point of a closed system like this.

Potassium can be added directly to a tank as pure chemical (KNO3, K2SO4 etc) if you know what you're doing. Problem with dumping in a load of potassium though is algae blooms.

Can fish handle that?

MerksX209A they're fish.

MerksX209A yes he needs to carr for those fish that setup is unnecasarily cruel

Edgar Rios they are also the ones giving him the nutrients. its only fair lol, but if you choose not to see it that way its alright. bigger tanks=happier, healthier fish and in turn that would help the plants grow faster and healthier.

They are nothing more than inputs and outputs. Input food, output poop.

more water for the fish means your diluting the nutrients that are cycling through the system.

Christine Felixon Not too bad, yourself?:)

Christine Felixon Good to hear, still just working from KZfaq here :)

goltoof No its the fish...

Some sun light too be nice for them.

not the only one i think its should be a glass tank im kinda mad at him for useing the fish like this

@@lvk104 Who cares it looks great and you get food. You also eat food from store and not caring about where it comes from. hypocrite.

@@ExtemporeMuzzzz so because everyone else does, you should behave the same?

It's driving me crazy.

Seriously, I also wanted to say that. :)

Its a cisco marketing thing internetofeverything.cisco.com/ www.cisco.com/web/tomorrow-starts-here/ioe/index.html?Buffer

Stop saying thTHATHAHTHATHAT

Sounds like this method isn't for you then. But it may be what is needed in some areas. Should people who own large amounts of land be the only people who get to grow their own food? Seems kind of selfish.

John Othic i run a 5000 gallon system on less than 1/10th an acre. Point is i like being outside.

That's fair. I'd probably be in the same boat with you. Your comment just seemed kind of negative - regardless of the method, I think it's good to encourage people to experiment with things. That's how a lot of people learn.

This idea is for people who live in a city surrounded by buldings and can't live in a farm or in a big place by many factors as work, family, money, etc.

Actually it does have to be high tech to be efficent. The more high tech and automated the better, that way all you have to worry about is planting and harvesting and monitoring that everything is working correctly. Sure you may enjoy spending all day checking the field. It's completely unnecessary to do that in this day and age of technology, and considering you could control precise amounts of watering and fertilizer without having to get out there, and maximize the crop, why wouldn't you do it? If you could do other things with your free time wouldn't you?

There are lots of aquaponics systems that add little or no nutrients except food for the fish. Some even grow most of the food for the fish in the system. I don't know about his system, but it is feasible.

Roger Engle Tiger worms eat about half their own weight in kitchen waste. They create a fluid which is wonderful for growing plants on and fish love eating worms. Win-win-win.

Roger Engle Black soldier flies have a life cycle of about a month. One black soldier fly can lay approx. 900 eggs. A menu of black soldier flies and worms are sufficient to feed a lot of fish with.

@rick-- thanks for the ideas and resources to look into. YES to your question that I add nothing more to the system. More than anything I am farming the bacteria more that the fish or plants. Happy bacteria - more plants

I guess there are a lot of different techniques out there. I could use compost turn it into mineralized top soil and then in the grow bed do a wet/dry filter below the bed into the sump right? Then my plants would be in ionized soil and I could feed my fish the worms from my compost. Besides this what alternative foods offer organics that will decompose into all the essential micros and macros that the plants need. Rotten Tiger worms? any other specific animals or plants that offer the most nutrients? I would prefer to create compost and then mineralize it, but am looking for any other great ideas?

Way too small volume for size of fish, yes?

you know the fish are ina pond now right?

Thought the exact same thing. All crammed into such a small space :o

Its fish after all. Like a piece of root bark, as long as the not constantly touch each other, they are comfortable with there enviroment.

Tilapia are hardy creatures. But yeah, maybe not the greatest life.

Correct.

You must hate aquariums too and abstain from eating poultry.

@@joebopp3958 and hate everything not you. Because that's where you are heading.

@@cod5testaccount Yeah I'm that egotistical. They are focusing on a very minor problem when this is a solution to saving all of the fish in the ocean. See the dead zone in the gulf of Mexico.

Collgab2050 - since the video fish have moved on to larger pond. I was just holding them in that tank until they could safely be moved to a larger system to accommodate them.

Oh ok, that's good to hear :)

+anthony whitehouse majority of aquaponics I've seen so far is just a fish prison. it's really inhumane. That's why i just do hydroponics. So many aquaponics systems also have enclosed prisons for the fish... it's like living in a dark closet forever. That's really really sad. As for THIS video, wow, it literally is a closet for the fish. That's probably the most inhuman form of aquaponics i've seen so far.

i just had sushi, want some?