10 Mistakes I made raising tilapia and catfish

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[@slamboy66]

My whole system runs on a Jackery and solar panels. Tanks never show up on power bill and are always powered.

[@sueQue-kf7wd]

I love that you have a list of topics! I love that you kept on topic, and not a lot of "filler words" Overall a great job! One thing - I'm new to everything, so checking something "Regularly" is not clear to me approx what time frame. 3 days, a week, or how often ? Not trying to make trouble. Really like this video.

[@seedsandarrowsfrontier9224]

Great video! I know it was tough learning through of these mistakes but you are making us all better at raising our own Tilapia.

[@MrOntorius]

You could cut holes into that S L O pipe about 6 inches apart and plant lettuce into it to filter more of those solid and have fresh lettuce growing

[@connormcclenny9681]

Thanks for posting your experiences!

[@peterlynch9269]

Thank you. you gave me the inspiration to get started. I have like 4 300 gallon tanks like 4 feet wide I have been dying to purpose. I'm afraid I'll cave and not kill them. I'm a sucker for all living things.

[@bruthacraig3469]

Thank you for the honesty 👍🏻👍🏻

[@elihuthompson626]

Thank you sir , appreciate all your knowledge ! Thanks a lots .

[@diogenesferreira326]

have you thought about making a divider, with wood or something else, making the space smaller for you to catch the fish. movable divider

[@SgtWojcik]

If you start a flood-n-drain bed above the tank, that can hedge your power cut issue on getting oxygen to your tank. Even a small pump can work off a battery to flood the bed and when it siphons out the splashing will introduce needed oxygen. My two cents Keep up the good work!

[@idratherbehomesteading2632]

Thanks for the suggestion. That pribably would work. I guess what I am really struggling to figure out is how to have it trigger to turn on when the main power shuts off.

[@davidschmidt270]

Hey Jeff W. Can you describe your idea a little clearer please?? I was just talk about a raised mini wetland idea that maybe emptied into the tank....in theory providing clean oxygenated water at the same time.....is that what your talking about??

[@tilapiadave3234]

@@davidschmidt270 Flood and drain is VERY widely described in full in THOUSANDS of websites

[@sadfur8728]

​@@idratherbehomesteading2632 Just have a double pole double throw relay that's normally energized by the 120V power, and use the normally closed contacts to power the battery pump. When the 120V power drops out, the battery power device will instantly kick in. If 120V power comes back on, the battery power switches off again.

[@michaelbarrett2346]

Thank you, great video

[@kenchapman3406]

Build a Hero siphon. You can even use the suction chamber, as a filter.

[@RickMarshallMaps]

Thanks for the great video

[@user-ct6ds9vb6e]

Great video and nice ponds！

[@modestbigotsondkhar8371]

Hi thanks for your shareing. I do small aquaponic and use solar ups energy about 2kva which can charge either gride or solar. And it work great for me. I also just start about one year now, my experience is also same as your.

[@djssquibbs3295]

awesome! just getting into this stuff

[@j.crandom2077]

Hello from Florida I run my system on solar it cost a bit but worked out great for you for the air system most definitely

[@MrOntorius]

I heard that activated charcoal helps eliminate chlorine and clean the tank too

[@slamboy66]

I just water my garden when I clean out my settling Duckweed/hair algae pool.

[@petrnikityuk9701]

Thank you 👍

[@johnandrade1034]

Murray hallam has a good battery back up system. He has a bunch of videos on KZbin, great course & store that sells his back up system which he created for his aquaponics farm. Hope this helps

[@MrOntorius]

People like to say tilapia are not worth messing with but i have people wanting to buy tilapia from me already and i haven even bought the first fish

[@lonnyrollins6488]

Get a duracell powersource. Run stuff through it. Should give you plenty of power to make it through a power outage. Also already has plugs that you can connect solar panel to it.

[@idratherbehomesteading2632]

ThankS for the tip I will check them out

[@kurtcooper3699]

Back up battery whether 12volt on its own or a redundant solar 2x's emergency backup should be plenty for a 24-48hr backup. Yes, even your large kiddy pool.... .lol Don't overload your pool & that alone would help. But, regardless, the above backup is what's commonly used for such setups. Saltwater aquariums w/several thousands of $$ worth of live coral use battery backup systems. Yes, I'm speaking of 29g-500gln.

[@Bluenoser71170]

If you add plants right away, you don't need to cycle your pond. Nutrient update is the whole point of plants, and they prefer ammonia to boot.

[@tilapiadave3234]

WRONG. I suggest you go and read about the Nitrogen cycle.

[@danm8004]

​@@tilapiadave3234NO U

[@wisdomhumbles8998]

I do very small scale aquaponics for lettuce etc with minnows out of a couple of 10 gallon aquariums. When it comes to chlorine in the water l top off with water I’ve let set overnight to gas off the chlorine from a 5 gallon bucket. I assume this is ok I’ve never had a problem.

[@3DogsTite]

Velli intalesting. Have been wanting to do aquaponics but do not want to jump into it. Just raising catfish alone may be the answer. What do you feed them, other than the plants and where can you purchase the feed? Am building a Walapini and want to put the fish tank inside for temp control as I live in southern new mexico and temps get low in winter.

[@dizzyx05]

water conditions is there a certain place to learn it? like what too and how too

[@abdiyusuf7598]

Great video please send me a link to the 1000 gallon tank

[@bryanjohnson8162]

I'm trying to do my research that's why I'm watching your video what size tank do I need for catfish like say I don't know 20???

[@Skott62]

Its not as much as making the mistake but how you learn from it and move on with improved knowledge from said mistake. I hope that makes sense. Yes?

[@brucebat9067]

Thank you buddy for these good videos. have u tried water pump without electricity concept ? its based on air pressure.

[@idratherbehomesteading2632]

Hey your welcome I am glad you enjoyed it. If you are referring to a ram pump that will not work in this situation. If you have a different tyoe of pump in mind I'd be interested to see it if you have a link you can share

[@SouthernCaliforniaMalinois]

what do you do with the fish?

[@progressivehardindustrialslug]

Wall mart sells a powerstrip/500watt battery. Over by the computers and tv's. Apc by Schneider electronics. 50$. It can run airpumps for a long time. Manual air exchange method: Two 5gal buckets. Repeatedly poor from one bucket to the other (boxing the water). Then add to fish home. This buys you about 4 hrs on a 200 gal system. So go back and box another 4 gallons every few hrs.

[@sadfur8728]

Is boxing the water something like aerating the water?

[@jamesbailey7785]

I scrolled thru comments; What was your plan raising them? Your use/ sale? Best; Tom

[@rtzcoll]

Wind power for a pump/aerator, original powerless pump .

[@Becauseimme]

Would you ever try Biofloc?

[@user-fb5rk4yl2s]

Use Zeolite powder for your Ammonia reduction and bottom sludge degradation.

[@chadwickanderson805]

Good job man! Your property in the background is Absolutely Beautiful!!! Are you in Florida?

[@idratherbehomesteading2632]

Thank you! Yes central Florida

[@DadePomsouvan]

Besides water hyacinth and water lettuce, try pothos, they are easy to find and do really well and spread really fast in a pond, just make sure they are bare rooted; I put them in a plant basket made for pond and use small rocks to weigh them down and fish will not eat pothos. I also use pothos on all my fish tank hanging off the side of the tank, just the roots in the water and they don't need direct sun light to grow. I don't know how your water hyacinth and water lettuce are growing without direct sunlight, they need minimum 4 to 6 hours of sun light and do even better with all day sunlight. Many other house plants can be used as well such as Tradescantia known as Jew plant and Oyster plant, syngonium also known as arrowhead, aluminium plant, and elephant ears, just to name a few, and yes, I have used all of them and they all work really well, just make sure they are barerooted and these plants don't need direct sun light.

[@idratherbehomesteading2632]

Thanks for the tip I will check into that. My plants get an hour or two of direct sunlight and then a strong indirect sunlight for a couple hours before shade the rest of the day. I guess they find that to be enough for them

[@davidschmidt270]

Is the Jew plant purple??.... Sorry....I know this is an old reply regarding different plants that you can use bare root for oxygen for fish!! Trying to figure a cheaper method because all the pumps I can find are expensive....plus I like the idea of off grid anyways!!...

[@davidschmidt270]

Is there a way you could be more detail about your 'elephant ears' plant???.... I've heard a lot of different plants called this name!

[@DadePomsouvan]

@@davidschmidt270 Any Alocasia especially Taro and also Colocasia, very few of the elephant ears do not like wet feet, so when you buy the bulbs, read the description.

[@DadePomsouvan]

@@davidschmidt270 Wandering Jew plants are Tradescantia and they come in many different colors and yes, even purple. Most of these plants are used to filter the water, if you want oxygenated plants, use water hyacinth and water lettuce, they clean the water as well as providing oxygen. These plants do use Oxygen as well at night time, and give out oxygen during the day. If you have large size fish, I would recommend using pumps as filter along side with plants. If you have large surface area of water like lakes and large ponds, you can get away without using filter.

[@vonnov4599]

Hey bro. You can also pre fill buckets and leave it out in the sun so chlorine can evaporate. Most water has chloramine now so you gotta watch out for that too. I think vitamin c takes out the chloramine.

[@idratherbehomesteading2632]

Yeah I used to do that, and I also used the chlorine removing liquid. That worked ok when I only had the small 150 gallon tank, but when I went up to the large tank and needed to do water changes of hundreds of gallons that was not a viable solution any longer.

[@sdriding]

You need vitamin c for any municipal water supply

[@deweysanders1461]

Where do you order your fish?

[@idratherbehomesteading2632]

Tilapiadepot.com

[@patrickbodine1300]

So, after all is said and done, would you do it again? Thanks for your efforts. Subbed.😉👍

[@idratherbehomesteading2632]

Oh absolutely! It's been a very cool experience so far and I love that my son gets to be a part of it. Thanks for the sub!

[@jimster1111]

I dont know if youre tech savvy but you could hypothetically buy a raspberry pi, an oxygen sensor, and a relay and write your own script to turn on said relay if your water oxygen level drops to a certain percentage.

[@idratherbehomesteading2632]

Uh... Yeah I think that a bit outside of my wheelhouse. But thank you for the comment it may be very useful to another viewer!

[@davidschmidt270]

I've heard catfish are hardy and don't need pumps pur say?

[@idratherbehomesteading2632]

Catfish need oxygenated water just like all other fish

[@davidschmidt270]

@@idratherbehomesteading2632 don't get me wrong Mister, makes sense....I guess what I was looking for would be a real hardy breed that would need less oxygen than most...a type that can live in City water no problem

[@idratherbehomesteading2632]

City water can be fine so long as you remove the chlorine and chloramine before use. But it still needs oxygen. That can come from pumps, air stones, and/or plants. I have another subscriber who says he is using enough plants they don't need a pump.

[@davidschmidt270]

@@idratherbehomesteading2632 yeah ok cool..... that's probably what I'll do .....like with my wetland idea

[@tlee9484]

Not being able to net your fish is a real thing. Lol

[@milosonko2134]

Men, how can you make 10 mistakes in your fishes life? You gotta do better!

[@sadfur8728]

What's the 11th? WoMen?