Hydroponics VS Aquaponics.. Here's Which Ones REALLY Better!

Hydroponics VS Aquaponics.. Here's Which Ones REALLY Better!
Welcome back to Down on the Farm. For the channel today, we will sort things out with regards to the topic,”Hydroponics vs Aquaponics: Which is better?”. Traditional agriculture method is now receiving some backlash among environmentalists. Thus resulting in farmers looking for ways on how to do farming without or perhaps having a lesser effect on the environment.
Hydroponics has been around for a very long time. It is a method in which there is no soil being used when growing plants. It is very contrary to the traditional way of growing plants where soil is highly needed. In this video, we get to see the topic of “Hydroponics vs Aquaponics: Which is better?
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Do YOU Know The Difference Between HYDROPONICS and AQUAPONICS?
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Aquaponics vs Hydroponics, Which One is Best for Me & My Family?
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Hydroponics vs Aquaponics
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[@dna3930]

Aquaponics can be considered morr Organic (as long as no synthetic chemicals is used), however most hydroponics systems use synthetic chemicals (there is organic ways to do hydroponics just real expensive). So, if you want to get your organic certification, aquaponics will be the cheapest and easiest route. The video also didn't talk about breeding and selling your fish, this is another avenue of revenue! Some use koi or goldfish to sell for ponds or feeder fish, others use different food type fish, catfish, trout, tilapia, freshwater shrimp and even crawfish. There are a lot of different ways to approach this. First, find what your state requires for you to start a business like this, most require business license and several types of insurance. Trust me, pay the money for the different insurances, it will save you a lot later if something happens. Start out at farmer's markets and build clientele, then work up to people coming to pick their own food, then restaurants and small stores. In the long run, you can easily build a nice business and following.

[@happy-jq3gf]

I needed to hear this, thanks

[@thefirstsin]

thx man

[@trorisk]

However, for aquaponics we often add elements that plants lack (iodine, iron, copper, zinc, etc.).

[@dna3930]

@@trorisk yes you do sometimes need to add certain supplements, you are still not using NPK based fertilizers! That is where a lot of money goes for farming.

[@s-moi3413]

Thank you for the info. My sister is doing Hydroponics and I'm doing Aquaponics. I feel like hers is easier but because of this info., now I feel like Aquaponics is better. Thanks!

[@rammulani4514]

New in this business can you help Me .... Your contact no. Plz

[@deepmalyadas6585]

that is so cool, man

[@triplex7144]

I do both and work away on a 3 week on off roster. I can tell you when I comes to the Mrs looking after everything when I'm away the aquaponics is easier. My hydro always suffers and I now have shut it down. My aquaponics system is run like a hydro system. Indi not grow in beds I use hydro pipes. And a large moving bed bio filter

[@davejaleco4019]

Thank you for this one Really Informative 🤗

[@triplex7144]

I can leave my aquaponics/ Dec/ hybrid nft system for 3 weeks with the Mrs feeding only and I expect she is only removing solids from the radial flow settler once a week. My system is very stable with the addition of domolite rocks and I have never lost fish. The only additions I make is a teaspoon of iron once a month and the odd splash of seasol. I'm away from home 50% of the year.

[@user-pz5xq5si8y]

Are those iron and seasol not harmful to the fish?

[@triplex7144]

@@user-pz5xq5si8y no seasol seaweed derived product is ok. You don't need much I would put half a lid every month. As for the iron there are fish safe iron chealated supplements. Once again you use very little to keep iron levels right.

[@semanizenebe2694]

Amazing and inspiring

[@tombouie]

Well-Done

[@TheNewMediaoftheDawn]

Aquaponics also tastes better, as the plants have a broader range of trace elements in the nutrient solution, hydro just has 10-15 elements tops and produces flavourless produce, especially fruiting plants like tomatoes and peppers…. -Although aquaponics takes more skill to pull off.

[@tinderella2386]

Not to mention, the Only thing that contributes to a crops flavour is its genetics, NOT its growing method. The reason the tomatoes and capsicums you talk about have no flavour is because of the cultivar they use, Not hydroponics. You do realise there are literally thousands of cultivars of tomato, don’t you?? If you grow heirloom tomatoes like Cherokee purple in hydroponics they taste amazing. You are a potato.

[@TheNewMediaoftheDawn]

@@tinderella2386 and you are 100% wrong, and strangely triggered over a tomato discussion, lol. I’ve tried the exact SAME cultivars grown hydro vs mineral rich soil, and the soil grown has WAY more flavour, hydro is garbage. Hydro has 10-15 elements and soil or good aquaponics can have up to 70-100 minerals like gold, silver, iodine, ect which contributes to more flavour. Yes varieties and cultivars affect basic flavour profiles but the growing method brings out higher or lower brix, sugars, and true flavour intensity. You can get decent hydro with great cultivars, but that SAME variety still tastes way better, grown better. I’m well aware of different varieties and cultivars of crops, but hydroponics are still fake plastic flowers…

[@katej9934]

@@TheNewMediaoftheDawnis light also an important factor for flavour? For example for strawberry sweetness?

[@TheNewMediaoftheDawn]

@@katej9934 very interesting you mentioned that, yes it certainly is…. I was working on a farm in the 90’s in the interior of British Columbia, the Creston Valley, and it had been overcast all spring, and the raspberries (interesting you mentioned strawberries) were lacking sweetness, still good though…. Lots of factors can go into sugar production and flavour. Cheers.

[@dna3930]

I agree with you! Nutritional value plays a huge roll in plants development and flavor profile. There is a big difference between soil and fluid base growing. First solution base growing maintains turgidity in the plants cells, your tomatoes won't split due to lack of moisture or a heavy rain saturating the soil. Now the difference I notice is definitely taste between hydroponics and aquaponics. I have what is consider a hypersensitive taste, I can break down food recipes from just taste and I can taste the chemicals in hydroponics. I don't care if they've had a good 2 week flush before harvesting or not, I can taste the chemicals byproducts in the plants fruit, especially tomatoes. With aquaponics, you taste the fruit and don't need to do a flushing of chemicals. The tomatoes are juicy and full of flavor.

[@owensfunhouse7582]

🤔 I guess it really depends o what you want out of it. It’s not really comparing apples to apples comparing the two.

[@user-mb3qs2mp3m]

Can I use aquaponics for tomato farming ?

[@UncannySense]

if you want to have fresh fish to eat aquaponics is better...the plant material is just a by product bonus.

[@NotBrianStelter]

So…. Basically…. Aquaponics is more Instagramable.

[@ticket2space621]

Idk I mean I just like keeping fish and growing plants combining them seems pretty rad Edit : it also sounds like aquaponics is a lot more of an effective method

[@xenn4985]

It's also growing meat though, which is a big part that not a lot of people point out.

[@garyjohnson1963]

Aquaponics is more effective because of vertical growth.. utilizing more farm land. Usually more expensive to start up. Hydroponics is less expensive and utilizes both fish/plants in a ecosystem way. Both great systems because it doesn’t only uses 3-8% of water.

[@evanfield6720]

It's really hard to take stated facts from a person who constantly says "fishes" while presenting scientific information. Very biased video indeed as well. The beauty of aquaponics is the closed eco system it creates when using the right kind of fish, but this also puts the entire crop at risk from a single disease or water quality issue and the restart time of 3 months if it needs to be drained is a huge risk factor. If your dependent on your farming for food I would use Hydroponics for the plants and a separate bio-filtered Aquaculture setup to protect against an entire food chain break down. Hydroponics can easily be compartmentalized into sections to protect against an entire crop loss quite easily and a family can buy enough nutrients to grow 10 years of food for $1000 dollars (if mixing your own solution) and store it away for added security. I love the organic play used to pump aqua over hydro but the reality is nitrogen is nitrogen and the ancestry of molecule doesn't give it it's safety profile. Using part of your hydroponics to grow the fish food for a separate aquaculture setup is far safer and easier to control.

[@crawford323]

If you are fortunate to have a body of water, in Texas we call it a tank, which has fish and other wildlife, could the water be circulated though a hydroponic system to serve as a nutrient base?

[@istoppain62]

I am starting bog filter and koi pond that I turned from a pool.

[@bwgaming9125]

Yes

[@geddyturnpaugh177]

A really good idea

[@ech9817]

This entire script is largely ripped from a Sensorex article titled "Aquaponics vs Hydroponics: Which One Is Best For You?" Specific words are changed, but the sentence structure and facts are almost entirely the same. The very least you could do is credit them

[@vineninja5882]

And so what?

[@ech9817]

@@vineninja5882 Wdym, it's plagiarism

[@dialecticcoma]

shut up@@vineninja5882

[@elsieyu6152]

hi, from philippines can you suggest how to do small scale aquaponics and its cost?

[@AliBaba-mb1pu]

use an old water dispenser bottle cut in two. Look it up.

[@iAVs-Sandponics]

iAVS - Sandponics

[@isanBen]

There is a lot of videos showing the cheapest way to set up, aquaponics is quite easy and if you use tilapia you'll have fish to eat, they are pretty easy to keep and grow in no time, if you set up breeding tank you'll have an endless supply of fish to expand your aquaponic empire 🙏 Sana all 🙏 blessed day and happy growing

[@isanBen]

@@AliBaba-mb1pu aquaponics would definitely need more than a water dispenser bottle, can use 200 litre barrels, but for larger fish it's inexpensive to build a strong tank that holds a few thousand litres..

[@civicsleeper3533]

is fish poop enough for the nutrients of plants?

[@flyagaric1607]

I tried a hydroponics.tomato from Tesco OMG. Rock hard and absolutely tasteless.

[@nickl5658]

More to do about the breed of tomato and when it was picked. You are probably tasting a tomato that was breed for transport and picked green.

[@robertpeesel720]

A commercial every 15-30 seconds? Count me out.

[@valeriesanchez3074]

I always pause the add click the exclamation and select stop seeing ad. KZbinrs getting greedy. They need to go find a real job 🙄

[@123Goldhunter11]

Kratky.

[@colinstace1758]

Heavily biased towards aquaponics

[@prasenjitmushahary2507]

Some of the data r not even that reliable...lol 😂

[@valeriesanchez3074]

I like hydro. It's straightforward and forgiving on my absent minded behavior. Only need to worry about an air pump and nothing else.

[@1pixman]

Aeroponics is best

[@williamm8069]

More CO2 would be a better environment than high O2

[@Goodellsam]

The fish have to have a high oxygen concentration to survive, the roots of plants need o2. The leaves of make use of co2 and o2.

[@rickysickles1429]

you keep suggestiing that plants breath O2 .plants breath CO2

[@paulverse4587]

Plants do indeed require Oxygen, but they take it from their roots. But the leaves convert CO² to O² and keep the C, yes.

[@madaxe79]

Yeah and nah... I have been weighing up switching to aquaponics for a while just sue to the cost increases of the hydroponics nutrients, but so far I can't find any benefit. hydroponics: monthly nutrient change (if required) check and adjust weekly one pump cheap (but cost is increasing) very productive 90% of my system can handle power outage for 2-3 days Aquaponics: Daily check and feed - mandatory still need to add additional nutrients requires constant power (1 day without power the fish are dead) any disease or illness in the fish, the whole system is out, potentially for months extra hardware required more expensive overall more fragile similar productivity requires more room someone tell me a benefit to switching over, please.

[@tinderella2386]

You don’t think the cost of fish feed would have gone up too?? What do you think fish feed on to grow? Hopes and dreams?

[@madaxe79]

@@tinderella2386 ummm, you’re agreeing with me

[@tinderella2386]

Aquaponics can’t compete with the productivity of hydroponics. Aquaponics is great at your easy leafy green crops, but your heavy fruiting annuals like tomatoes and capsicum hydro craps all over aquaponics and it never has the nutrients available in the system without heavy supplementation anyway. People who talk about aquaponics being better always over simplify if, until you start running into problems with either your fish or your plants, and you can’t just add what you need to like with hydroponics cause it would kill the fish, so it’s just dumb except on all but the largest of scales. The only benefit is you get fish too, but from all reports commercial fish food is pretty expensive. Prob the only maybe benefit of aquaponics is it can use less water as you never get rid of your water. But hydro still uses only 10% of the water of field grown crops. Just also compare hydroponics is sterile clean and odour free, I hope you constantly like playing with and dealing with fish poo if you do aquaponics, you have to deal with it constantly

[@madaxe79]

@@tinderella2386 yeah I agree... hydroponics is a much better solution. Also, in regards to eating the fish: i love next to the great barrier reef, I have easy access to the best seafood in the world, why would I eat dirty freshwater fish, when I can eat prime tropical reef fish...

[@madaxe79]

@Brandon Gomez I know half a dozen people with aquaponics systems and they all say they can grow their own fish food, but none of them can/do… if you’re growing fish food, you’re using the nutrients you need for crops to grow food for the fish… I started my own KNF/JNF system last year, and I’m almost at a point where I can run my hydroponic system on the JLF solution. Grows herbs well, but at this stage can’t seem to sustain fruiting plants, but I’m working on the solution, and I expect in the next fee months I will have my own hydroponic solution made from weeds, grass clippings, and garden waste. I’m about to trial it in an NFT system with lettuce and such, I expect good results.

[@sriiraamgeevan930]

Seems pretty biased to aquaponics, just saying

[@Ghost.Flawless]

look away

[@herculesdieuly367]

Next time, please know how not wasting people's time. Thank you!

[@Flyingdutchy33]

That voice.... I had to stop.

[@craigpage2638]

Wtf 😂