Hello sustainable growers.
This is Jonathan from Melbourne Aquaponics.
In this video, we will see how to make money from aquaponics.
So we’ll see that there are different options to make money, but we’ll talk about one
specific that is very well adapted to backyard aquaponics.
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Okay, so the main point of aquaponics, for me, is to produce some food for yourself and
for your family, some food with a very high profile in terms of taste, some very tasty
food.
Also some food that is very healthy and that is going to improve your own health, so food
with very high quantity of vitamins, that is very, very fresh.
You can pick the food and eat the food straight away.
You know, you don't need the freeze the vegetable.
Don't go to the fridge at any time.
It's still very high in terms of vitamin and nutrient profile So that's the number one
thing.
Right?
But I know that nowadays, a lot of people are wondering how to make money from aquaponics.
And the obvious response to that is to go for a big-scale aquaponics and to produce
a big quantity of vegetables and to sell them in the market, or to have local community
that comes to you place and where you can sell your products.
But to make a significant quantity of money from this activity, you need a really big-scale
aquaponics.
Right?
Now, if you just have a backyard aquaponics.
there is a technique to still make a bit of money from this backyard and to be able to
fulfil your needs.
Right?
Because as I just said, in the end, number one of aquaponics is to produce some very
healthy and tasty food for yourself.
But aside from that, you can make a bit of money by producing some very special fish.
You know that in aquaponics, most of the time, we produce 10 times more vegetables than fish.
For one kilo of fish produced, most of the time you're going to produce 10 kilos of vegetables.
That's just an average dependent of the species that you're going to grow.
But yeah, you know, with the fish food that you give to your fish, the fish are going
to poop, and most of the nitrogen is going to be transformed into vegetables.
So that's where you're going to have the biggest production.
So what I recommend is to obviously eat those vegetables because they are amazing.
They're going to really improve your health.
And then for the fish, obviously, you can eat some of your fish.
They’re still going to be extremely good, extremely tasty, and obviously, very fresh.
And at least, you know what you grow, but you still have the possibility to sell some
fish.
And now, if you sell fish to which you know you're going to sell, for example, trouts,
in Australia, they are between $15 to $20 a kilo.
Depending on the species of fish, it can be a bit more or a bit less.
Right?
But now, if you grow some other species of fish, such as tropical fish, ornamental fish,
they can reach a very, very high price, even for fish that are not very big.
So if you take the example of koi carp, you know that a carp a full-size carp can reach
some crazy numbers, you know.
It can you can reach like $500,000 for one fish.
So here, we are not talking about random koi carps.
We are talking of carp with the best patterns: the best colors, the best shapes, you know,
what we call A grade carps because there are different grades of koi carps.
Anyway, it’s something true for a lot of different fish.
You have different qualities, and whatever you can produce in your aquaponics setup is
not going to be necessarily the best quality because you know the specialists they select
the fish.
They breed the fish between themselves, and then they select.
They're going to sort the babies, and they're going to grow only the best potential.
They grow the best fish basically, to sell them to the market, but even with the less
expensive koi, it’s still a very expensive fish.
Right?
So if you grow a fish that is this size, you can sell it for a very, very good price.
And here, we are talking about koi carp.
You can do the same thing with goldfish because koi carps are a pest in Australia, but you
can do the same thing with goldfish, and you know, a really nice goldfish, big-sized goldfish
can cost a lot of money.
You can sell it for $30 to $50 per fish.
So it's a very high price for a small fish.
And you can grow a fair few into your aquaponics setup.
So if you really want to make money, that's one option, and there is also the option to
grow -- if you live in an area where the temperature is high, you can also grow some cichlids.
They are ornamental fish that cost a lot of money.
They can be worth a lot of money.
So you just need to have a nice couple, and they can breed by themselves into a setup.
I mean, there are different species and so not all of them, but most of them are able
to breed by themselves.
You just need to put some nice pipes.
Most of the time, cichlids especially African cichlids, not especially -- not so much the
American ones, but the African ones are very easy to grow, and they like a very high pH.
So you can increase the pH of your setup because you're going to have some vegetables that
are going to like a higher pH, such as 7.5 to 8.
So it's not a problem.
It's going to be good for the bacteria.
Then you're going to be able to grow the specific fish that are very hardy, that are worth a
lot of money.
So here, you're going to be able to grow some amazing vegetables at home and to produce
some nice fish and to sell them so you can sell them you know, on any website.
So for example, here in Australia, you got a website called Gumtree.
We can maybe sell them on eBay.
I'm not sure if you are able to sell live fish on eBay, but that’s possible.
And you know, other kinds of websites where you can sell second-hand products.
Most of the time you can sell the fish, and that's a really good way to make a bit of
money.
So here, I know that this video is going to be interesting for a lot of people, but that's
for me, the best way to make a bit of money from your aquaponics setup and to still produce
some excellent vegetables.
And then depending on the species we grow for example, if you grow koi carps or goldfish,
you can mix them with other fish that you're going to eat.
So you are still able to eat the fish from your aquaponics setup.
You are able to eat the vegetables, and at the end, you are also able to collect a bit
of money from the fish that you sell.
So this money is going to be able to first pay the bill of the electricity because as
you know, we manage the setup to have the less, lowest electricity consumption, but
you still need to pay this bill.
Right?
So it's going to be able to cover the bill and/or maybe to just put a bit of money aside
or whatever, whatever you need to do.
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Have a good crop.