10 Mistakes I made raising tilapia and catfish

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[sueQue-kfwd]

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.

[slamboy]

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

[seedsandarrowsfrontier]

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

[peterlynch]

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.

[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!

[elihuthompson]

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

[kenchapman]

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

[diogenesferreira]

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

[j.crandom]

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

[keng]

The lifepo4 batteries are absolutely being given away at about $175 a piece just get you a nice decent inverter and you don't even need the solar panels those life pole for batteries come with a DC charger so if your power is only going to be down for a few hours one or two of those batteries will last for days on a pool pump.. get at least a hundred amp hours each... They work fantastic

[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

[MrOntorius]

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

[djssquibbs]

awesome! just getting into this stuff

[lonnyrollins]

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.

[modestbigotsondkhar]

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.

[johnandrade]

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

[slamboy]

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

[wisdomhumbles]

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.

[bryanjohnson]

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???

[kurtcooper]

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.