Cycling Our Aquaponic System For the First Time! Ep 6

In this episode, we cycle our aquaponic system for the first time! But before that, we have to do a lot of prep work like adding ammonia into the system, doing daily water testing and so on. This whole process of can take you 4 weeks up to 4 months or more. You want to make sure that the ammonia is turning in to nitrate on a timely matter. Nitrate is what the plants absorb as their food. Having too much ammonia in your pond can be detrimental to your fish and we want happy fish. Happy fish means healthy plants.
Once we were able to cycle our system after a few months, we were finally ready to add plants. Special thanks to Loboc Local Government Unit (LGU) for donating our first batch of seedlings to Isla Eden.
Just a quick shoutout to all of you for your incredible support! Isla Eden is pioneering large-scale aquaponic farming in the Philippines, aiming to create sustainable livelihoods and revolutionize farming for small-scale farmers. Your likes, shares, comments, and follows mean the world to us and contribute to our mission. Join us in this journey!
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⏰ Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:50 Creating Our Own Vermicast
2:00 Adding Venturi System
3:21 Daily Water Testing
5:14 Why Do You Need to Cycle?
7:22 Adding Chicken Poop
7:53 Ready to Add Plants to Grow Beds
9:37 Getting Ready for the Next Episode
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[@karlotilaon5621]

Wow! great work! Your system is almost self sustaining 🎉, would love to learn this! ❤❤❤

[@user-ji6hc7qx6w]

Excellent job Polin! keep it up

[@Jerry-ko9pi]

I've been looking into doing something like this when I get back to the Philippines too. I've been doing research for about 3-4 years.I'll have to stop by and check out your system!

[@AhBastaCorny]

very inspiring jud!

[@laughingman_confused]

Hey man, I like your vision. I'd suggest that you switch them plant boxes to tilapia ponds vice versa for better tilapia production. If you worry about ammonia spike, put duck weeds on the ponds. Duck weeds serve two purpose, ammonia absorption and food for tilapia. Algae are also part of tilapia's diet so you dont need to worry about it. Tilapia poops a lot and I mean a lot. What you need to pay attention is how to make them poops transfer to plant box. I suggest that you use styrofoam instead of rocks so you can plant more. Nitrogen cycle will happen even without rocks plus more plant, better filter. Plants, fish, surface agitation. I'm not an expert by the way but I've tried it and worked for me.

[@901pics]

Wonderful...Question: is hemp crops possible. It seems like this could be an ideal crop/ industry for many products....helping improve Philippines GDP

[@901pics]

Once you get it going sell franchises...