The big question when it comes to stocking your aquaponics system with edible fish, is to know the stocking density ~ how many fish you can have!
In this video I break it down to help you work out your fish to filtration ration ~ which is what it is for edible fish.
We cover the common measurements, volumes and number of fish for different types of systems for edible fish.
Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
0:38 How to work out how many fish to have
1:50 Measuring Barrel growbeds
3:00 How to work out the amount of fish for barrels
7:45 The amount of fish
8:22 Using and measuring bathtubs
11:49 Bathtub calculations and Numbers of fish
12:54 IBC growbed measuring and calculations
15:15 IBC number of fish
15:36 DIY growbed measuring and calculations
18:05 DIY number of fish
18:53 Bonus tips for surface area and how to make it cheaper!
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so enjoying your info and your passion on this . Thank you Candy
How does your choice of media affect your calculations? Expanded clay and lava rock has much more surface area than river rock. Thanks
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Thanks for doing calculations in English and Metric.
All my questions asnwered thanx.