That bird is a Indian Ringneck and sadly Bianca got a fright after filming and flew into neighbors massive Mango tree for 2days before flying away further and not returning a very sad day for all who knew her. 😭
Yes the issue is much deeper but couldn't elaborate too much for fear of an outcome not to my favor... That is why we video the system as they wanted it completely torn down in 7days but I won the fight and have gotten to celebrate by keeping the system and expanding it more. Xoxo thanks for your support 🤕
@@EmmaSchroeder-qi1bq ❤ Very glad for you, I didn't realize it has gotten that bad. Still not as bad as here in the US- hopefully? Fantastic system, love it!
Omg! i’m so proud to see this video , im one of emma carers & i’ve being apart of all these fishes, yabbys, even the gardens growth….This lady knows her stuff & much more i have learnt so much from her it’s amazing…. The one thing i no is she never run out of fish & fresh veggies if anything she had too much.. 👍
If you may help me. there once was a old asian man, who build his aquaponics journey. i believe he is australia. and build this amazing greenhouse with a deep pond inside. im somehow no longer subscribed. and want to find this man again, but somehow all my searches on youtube has shown up nothing. if not i wanna say thanks for the care. those yabbys are really pretty. wish we had something like it in scandinavia where im from.
The dams & lakes are full of these & the red claw here RR. We're hoping to buy a property that has a dam with a few in it. I prefer them to fish to tell you the truth. 😉
I love crayfish too but my fingers are having to be replaced with tools to crack em open.. Something I miss as nothing better than hands in and a squeeze of lemon and a bit of sauce 😘😝
It was to do with the depth of water tanks are 600mm high and anything over 300mm is under swimming pool clause... Unless u can prove it is not hense weeks of providing evidence including Dr reports that I can't get in there lol.
Yes, big things are coming for you and the passionate people who enjoy aquaponics and the sustainability that it brings. 😊 I firmly believe this is the future and can bring food to starving families.
I love all of the garden systems and crayfish tanks. Congratulations on getting the council to understand it’s all garden, even the water. That’s a win for everyone also🍺🍺
I am always in trouble with my team for changing and expanding things.. Always end up being a much bigger job than I first plan.. Trying to get most out of my smaller yard as I need 1.2m wide paths
Rob, I was originally thinking of putting bread crates in an IBC , but I think baffle balls would allow a greater surface area and good water / oxygen flow. I think the 1000lt IBC would be the cheapest, but would prefer the Nalley bins/ mega bins for aesthetic reasons
Thinking baffle balls holes are to small as they do get stuck... I would consider lengths of pvc with 3/4" 20mm to 25mm 1inch holes... With like aquacell blocks for them to climb over.. Remember you need at least 6" for the top to make hard to escape and no leads or Pipes over edge... Or a very tight lid
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Wow Emma great set up, and thank you Rob for another fantastic video. I would love to get more info on how it all works as I've been trying to set up a system with the native freshwater crayfish down here in NZ. Best of luck with everything
Ive been looking into a yabby setup for over a year now, its great to finally get some information about a working system. Congratulations Emma would love to get more info
@@RobsAquaponics it's such a fantastic concept if you can get it to work as you can grow your own yabby feed in the set-up, being a complete self sustaining system
Wow, what a beautiful set-up! Thanks for sharing this😊 This is the first time I’ve heard of bamboo being used and I love it! Something I’m definitely going to look into in the future. I would love to see more setups like this or even have regular updates on Emma’s place! Does Emma have any social media’s we could follow? Thanks Rob for sharing this😊
@@dearlove88 thanks mate, got well over fifty in there, with some monsters amongst them, might have to put some in the pot. Was considering putting some plastic lattus with PVC pipes on an angle for more floor space and to try and slow down the kill rate.
@@craigparry5648 that’ll work a little. I mean if you don’t have anything, you’ll eventually end up with just 1, haha. Remember to cap one end. Otherwise they can’t protect themselves
Expect that... I gave it up after a year and went back to tilapia stand-alone. They just don't utilize space well at all, and I learned from the owner of Lakeway Tilapia a clean aquarium = tasteless meat at best, def. horrible taste from sub-par or worse tanks, and they can't survive a full purging process like tilapia and other fish. According to their owner, where they are caught (where they are eating) is the resulting flavor, and certain waters are known for better flavor (not just higher populations) with an emphasis on the fact they eat "dead, rotting things at the bottom of the ocean or other bodies of water." For me it was a really good way to learn about crustaceans and they were kinda neat to watch at times. However, no nutrients = nothing grows, you end up doing a lot of work just to watch your numbers diminish. I watched mine go from over 65 to just 3. Didn't even bother eating them because the prawn food made the tank water disgusting.
The commercial yabby food is designed for dams or tanks that do not recirculate. So I use it only once a week to maintain water quality preferring to feed algae wafers, carrots, and Feeder Fish. I purge my yabbies in concentrated salt water for 1-24hours and they always survive as I put a air stone in.
I've been looking forward to this tbh. I want to get some yabbies with tilapia going myself, although I'm in a coolish Mediterranean climate and the tilapia might struggle without heating in the winter.
So I love to change the food up to keep them Intrested and less fighting as they forage.being omnivores they need small amounts of protein another reason they eat each other.. So I use a mix of algae wafers, grated carrot, sweet potato vines and other vegetables on trial, native fish food, meal worms, commercial yabby food additional Crustacean and Calcium Blend, Seasol, Seaweed extract, trace minerals, iron & potassium and a few Feeder Fish for them to chase... They get bored too.., handful of Gravel and lots of pvc, bamboo or other submersible non toxic pipe various sizes at least 1 per resident yabby, PM me if you want more info
That's the thing everything grows massive in Aquaponics and instead of having to plant massive numbers of each plant u can actually reduce the number of plants as they also bounce back much quicker than soil aswell
Seems like they would be better for low-nutrient plants like lettuces, swiss chard, et cetera. I raised prawn which is similar (I don't advise it unless you have a large pond or something) and they don't release much in the way of ammonia compared to fish. Prawn are horrible little cannibals, started with over 65 of them and lost most of them due to cannibalism, they have a strict social hierarchy and don't utilize vertical/volume space efficiently like your perch or my tilapia. Tried putting one in with fish (polyculture), that didn't last long. That said, I love shrimp, prawn, lobster and crayfish!
If I could I'd just use crayfish as I prefer them over fish Thomas. 👍 With any luck the property we buy will have enough ponds/dams that we can raise them in the wild & clean them up in tanks before harvest. Hope all's well with you mate.
@@RobsAquaponics I hope to obtain similar land for similar purposes. I've seen them commercially farmed in flooded ditches, so anything like that will likely result in some quality meat. Prawn can't survive a full purging process, not sure about crawdads. Even a little one wouldn't hurt, surely.
@@RobsAquaponics I’ve got yabbies in a tank that’s the same as your ‘patio’ set up, and marron in a much larger tank. The yabbies are still pretty small so there’s at least 4 of the original 6 that I restocked a few months ago 😂
I'm not sure where Emma purchased them from sorry mate. Similar ones come up when I search for aquaponics grow beds & tanks from a few different suppliers around Oz. Sorry I'm not much help.
In the USA, "blueberry" refers to certain Vaccinium sp. (corymbosum in cold climates, ashei and hybrids between that and corymbosum in the Deep South/ low-chill areas, and lowbush in the far north, usually managed more like forestry [tamed/managed wild beds] than orchards). These need highly acidic soils, which I thought were incompatible with the bacteria used in nitrogen cycling. Am I missing something?
It's a trial to see how they go Erik. I have seen folks grow them at higher pH than 6 & they looked to do OK. I'm not sure there will be enough nutrients in the system though soi may be making a few suggestions to Emma next time I visit.
I would be more concerned about them damaging the roots of the plants. I suppose there could be an issue with the liner but I've never read or heard of anyone saying they had an issue.
im working on a setup with crayfish and sweet potatoes. the crayfish like the roots and the slips grow out of the top of the potato keeping them out of harms way. im thinking of trying rice next
1 Pump for each system.. 1 x30 outlet air pump for outdoor system, and 2 x 30 outlet air pumps for garage I have 4 main systems 1. Breeding System attached to Blueberries 2. Yabby grow out attached to white NFT System 3. Large Aquaponics system, with 3 grow beds 4. Blue tub and Bamboo nft system with bog garden
Hi Rob. Can my fish pond be the sump? Meaning all poop etc moving out from the pond floor into treatment tanks. IE ras , grow beds ( deep culture containing bacteria for conversion to nitrates , back to pond?
You can have the pump in with the fish. 👍It does pay to make sure that your plumbing is up to scratch so you don't pump the tank dry dues to failures elsewhere in the system.
I think that's a great idea PDPD. 👍 If it's an inside hot tub the material used may not be UV stabilised. I've seen some folks turn them into wicking beds & the walls start to break down after being exposed to the sun for a while.
Hmm not so sure as yabbies dig and would put holes in the liner... I would put a thin layer of cement in if you were never to use again... Or anything else that is food grade but not easy to put holes in remember the claws can take a finger off
I don't think you'll get enough waste generated in such a small area from just crayfish. Fish will eat a fair bit more protein rich food per animal which will generate a lot mote nitrate for the plants.
@@RobsAquaponicsthanks for the reply! I did some more research and might go with rainbow trout, im thinking about creating an indoor system to supply veggies year round under artificial light. (We don't have the best climate in Belgium, but i personally have enough solar power to basicly be fully self sufficient 8/12 months)
I think you'll find some in the aquarium trade over there mate. I know you have a load of our wildlife as pets already (frogs, snakes, sugar gliders, lizards, wallabies, etc......) so I'd say they're available. 👍
I have seen some FL companies sell (mail order) Redclaw Yabbies (not Cherax destructor, but a related species which supposedly doesn't tunnel and therefore is easier to keep contained), though the state of Florida requires registration to raise non-native crayfish. (Florida has lots of trouble with invasive species.) California might as well--warm climate, so biosecurity would be an issue. Redclaws in the upper Midwest would just freeze & die if they escaped, so I am thinking about them, though I am not sure I could make a heated, indoor set-up economically viable.
I'm interested to find out how his Alpine Strawberries do. They r a forest berry that don't like too much sun & heat. They don't grow well for me in the South, Arkansas, but I've never tried growing in aquaponics. Still think. It's too hot here, couldn't grow under the trees where it only got filtered morning sun. Plants remained skimpy, flowers stopped producing & didn't even put out baby shoots. I've had my own strawberry patch to care for as far back as I can remember as a wee girl. Is get in trouble for catching snake to put in the garden & using all the salt to keep the slugs & snails out so dad made me a patch along the Fir trees where I could put all the snakes I wanted. Just Gardner snakes weren't going to hurt anyone...
@@RobsAquaponics It's been a cold wet spring we are out of drought & >8" above normal rain. Farmers will have at least 1 crop of hay. Good for cattle ranchers to build up herds back up Good for me still trying to get the aquaponic system built. Having difficulty finding food grade barrel for swirl filter. Might have to go w metal have concerns about it heating & freezing. Spent several hours yesterday getting another batch of seeds started I'm finding the growing medium for the beds us ridiculous, local supplier clay pebbles 0.9 cubic feet $36!! I used 2 IBC, 3 beds & sump so I think I'm going to try 1 sand & 2 gravel. Then in the flip bed over tank I'll use clay. That'll b for my greens & thought the clay won't get as hot as gravel?. My father doesn't think it'll matter because water will keep it cool. Had a scare last week, city came knocking on my door. Few of my neighbors don't appreciate my gardens out front, front yards r for roses not peppers. Actually they don't appreciate the Pacific NW outsider. New rules, beautification rules, can't have our homes offending tourism here in the National Park 🤣 so they offering free trash/ junk removal. I said oh this isn't junk & laughed. Told her what I had going on & she asked when I'm finished if I could come to her house next. She really liked all my renovations I've been doing last 3 yrs stating she love to live here. "Buy it I'll include the aquaponics & indoor hydroponics" She wanted to come inside & look some grow tents city can't see 🤣🤣 Hope ur enjoying cool fall days
@@user-tn7xo7ky9o Rock should stay cool as most of it will be covered by the plants with only small areas showing. Good to hear that the inspector was a bit more openminded that others I've heard about d. Today is the first under 30°C/86°F we've had all Autumn I think so it looks like a bit of a late start to the cool season for us. Cheers.
@@RobsAquaponics86 sound great to me w cool crisp dew covered mornings. r u affected by La Nina & La Nino like we r here in the states? After 3 yrs of La Nina she went out w a bang. Never ending Pineapple Express that brought major rain. Last weekend south of me mass tornados. 1 was on ground >60 miles 170 mph winds. I'll take a earthquake over tornado, tornadoes scare me. La Nino won't be full force until end of summer so I don't think we'll b as hot as anticipated. Thankfully, last summer was horrid. La Nino won't b full force until end summer- earthy fall. It should bring warmer temps fall & winter, but idk if it'll stop the artic blasts. Idk if I'll b able to keep fish alive (how many heaters it'll take) temps drop -10 F real temp -25F this past winter. My house pipes & crawl space insulated, had cupboard did open taps running.& They still froze. I'm told it was because it was a flash freeze Going to put hard foam insulation around the tank & make a lid & put wood skirting around all the IBC, look nice for front yd. Then I'll put the plastic backup, system will b indeed high tunnel greenhouse. So it shouldn't freeze solid like the rainwater IBC did. I might just pull some live channel catfish out of the lake & put in the tank this yr. Use them to experiment with & learn the system. How can we send u pics/ videos of ur systems? Show off what you've taught us
Extra fencing and gates required for Water over 300mm deep due to child drownings in Australia. My tanks are all covered in Mesh and requires a tool to access so have now been ruled safe
Half the time I don't know what you are talking about and why it matters. I have seen better systems but it is good to see the better way to grow food using the circle of life rather than wasting land space by sticking plants in the ground.
Yes fight a lot and when it rains they go climbing... Or swimming up stream. In nature they burrow down above water line to prevent from being washed away.. They are also more active at night so why fish get attacked as the tend to sleep towards the bottom of the tanks at night... Just really need to be mindful of their natural Behaviour to prevent loss. Keeping in same sex tanks is best unless u have it set up to breed
