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okay hi everybody welcome again to another episode of fishkeeping jamaica welcome to my
channel okay so i shared you uh a few years ago that i have practically some earthworms in one
of my ponds right right and these earthworms are hermaphrodites that mean i just need one
to actually start a colony male and female lay eggs and eventually uh these eggs will
end up into urgent culture well if you say that culture right now i clean this uh system recently
and i realized that it needs cleaning again it's a tilapia pond box filter
um what has happened is that because the tilapia is going so huge and what i find is that the mess
from the tilapia or should i say the waste from the tilapia is practically it's practically um
you know allowing the the the pan should i say yeah the bucket to be overfilled so what i'm gonna
have to do now i'm gonna have to take out this take up the um the earthworms take out everything
wash it off and actually place it back um so that it can continue to filter my system
right so the gunk in it it is what you would actually um it is what you would actually use
uh channel in your planter bed for your aquaponics aquaponics system now i will do an aquaponics
system sometime in the summer so you will see how all it spends out now all the nutrients in which
the earth will actually consume in the bucket filtration system that would be in the planter bed
and the whatever i plan to let the peppers tomatoes whatever it is right the root would
actually um be able to extract these nutrients and actually help me help my help the bed to be um you
know to bring food uh regularly fruits vegetables you know good right um so i am actually gonna
be cleaning all this right because you know it's it's it's when whenever the water do enter in
from the pond to via the pump actually pump the water to a hose and it comes up here
you you have actually seen how it works right what happened is that the water comes all the
way up here joining up the home for the for the earthworms as a result of that the earthworms are
now on the sponge that is used as a i call it is a mechanical type of filtration system so you find
that um they are they although earthworms live in muddy um spaces but they will be
they they won't survive being in being immersed in water so therefore there should be a space solid
space for them to actually move around although it's it's muddy and it looks slimy and all that
but they need that space so that they can actually survive so i'm gonna actually be doing that now
took the time to actually empty out the the box the filter box
i'm here right also i've ensured that the water that i'm going to be using so as to rinse
off the i call it the media i it's practically gravel right is water from what i call it fish
friendly water all right so i'm gonna actually be using fish friendly water so i still right
wow see one of the worms all right i'm going to place it back into the container
we're going to it should have a nice light chances are i'm going to lose some some ram eggs
but right now the emphasis is just to ensure that um
water can actually flow through the system which is not what's happening
right now so i'm not washing washing it off like one time i would do like last
time strange i rinsed it off and i took out there all the all the stuff in it
the emphasis right now but here's another it's another earthworm
all right i i'm going to be placing this
yeah it's a little bit difficult to get
on the water and they are trying to run away from me ain't gonna work party all right
all right here it is all right so i'm gonna pass it back into
basket with those two earth rooms alone in it in a couple months a couple weeks
i hit another one right i probably will have several dozen
um worms in the system some of them is actually going to the hole in which i don't want that to
happen i'm going to pause a little bit so i can actually do what i'm doing and then i sh i return
what i love about my bucket filter is that not only does it serve as a medium
filter in my tilapia upon or any of my points at all but it also serve as a
a space for my earthworms to actually live in right and shoot in case any
do escape out of the filtration out of the filtration box uh over the filter media it
actually falls into the pond itself and the fish will have a good meal right but at the same time i
i've actually always been trying to ensure that i have a a clean rocket filter and also i have
opportunity for more rooms to be within my system so um i actually did a 80 percent water change on
this uh system today and hopefully the flow of the water within this box will actually improve
so much time spent actually uh you know sorting out the bucket filter um it is now back in
operation and i can see here if the water flow um has actually it's not where i want it to be
uh because of the size of the pump but as i said before this pond wasn't originally for tilapia
breeding keeping and care right but it has worked for me for the for the past couple of months and
i'm grateful for it right the larger pumpkin which i purchased a few months ago and someone came in
my yard and they actually stole it right i'm gonna be getting another are probably two other larger
pumps than this one and that will be used so as to manage my aquaponics system in which i will be
sharing with you in about two to three months time for the time being this is it um pawn is nearly
filled give it about the next hour and that will be it peace out catch you next time bye
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