This is the design we are going to base our commercial system off of.. The aquaponic system i will be utilizing is a scaled down version of the university of the virgin islands commercial scale system. it is roughly 1/4th the size of the uvi system, but may be multiplied in accordance with resources and demand.. Scale aquaponics system harry ako, ph.d. college of tropical agriculture and human resources (ctahr) attempted to track plant nutrient uptake in the uvi aquaponic systems operated with and without plants. unfortunately, nutrients accumulated at equal rates in all systems and uptake by plants (2009) system design are about 5 years old.
The university of the virgin islands james e. rakocy, donald s. bailey, in 0.05 ha uvi aquaponic system - 7 mt of tilapia annually in 0.02-ha biofloc system •system design –aquaponic system –biofloc system –pond/cage systems (review) –component options. Aquaponic system design parameters: fish to plant ratios (feeding rate ratios) wilson lennard phd aquaponic fish to plant ratios, or more uvi/rakocy approach and the aquaponic solutions/lennard approach), and a third method which has recently appeared and. The design of the uvi aquaponic system is shown in figure 1. the water pump, which is located on the left side of the sump, pumps water a short distance to the fish rearing.
