Fish how to start fish farm

[Ayubu Mwasote]

Welcome, @Ayubu Mwasote we are glad to have you here. As an extension officer and doing fish farming from Tanzania any assistance you can give to @Luge Lugendo?

Yes I can.

 

[Ayubu Mwasote]

Yes aquaponics is a farming system which includes production of fish and growing plants particularly vegetables such as salads, water lettuce, tomatoes, water melon, tangos.
This system is very applicable in the area with a limited space.
Especially in urban areas
What you need is;
Fish (seed)
Facilities such as tank
Water (just to fill the tanks initially) because water will be recirculating between plants and fish tanks).
Also biofiter (you can just use two plastic tanks.) one could be settling tank and other filtering tank.
Also you need a motor to pull water.

 

[Ayubu Mwasote]

Luge lugend

Yes aquaponics is a farming system which includes production of fish and growing plants particularly vegetables such as salads, water lettuce, tomatoes, water melon, tangos.
This system is very applicable in the area with a limited space.
Especially in urban areas
What you need is;
Fish (seed)
Facilities such as tank
Water (just to fill the tanks initially) because water will be recirculating between plants and fish tanks).
Also biofiter (you can just use two plastic tanks.) one could be settling tank and other filtering tank.
Also you need a motor to pull water.

I will send a picture of aquaponics which we made as a demo used to teach others so as you can understand how it works.

 

[Ayubu Mwasote]

the picture is an example of a simple aquaponics design, but there are so many design.
There are three section here 1. fish rearing tank

1. bio-filter tanks
2. hydroponic (vegetables) which is salad

without forgetting the motor.
how it works
The water from fish tanks which contains ammonia, feces, uneaten feeds are collected via the pipes to the settling tank and then again the motor pull the water to the bio-filter tank which contain bacteria which changes ammonia and other waster into nitrite then to nitrate.
The nitrate is used as source of nutrients to the vegetables. so when water recirculate the vegetables tend to absorbs all the nutrients and water remain clean and back to the fish tank. the re-circulation continue.