I'm setting up an aquaponics system and I'm wondering whether or not a protein skimmer will take out ammonia from the system I need nitrates and nitrites to still be in my system to fertilize my plants and for the nutrients but I don't want the ammonia in the system and I need a little bit of filtration to take out solids but not enough filtration to take out all of the bad stuff that the fish don't like I need that stuff for the plants so will my protein skimmer take out all of that good stuff that I need for my plants or will it only take out the solids and ammonia?
Protein skimmers and ammonia and nitrates and nitrites
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Although fractionation removes proteins that are ammonia, nitrite and nitrate precursors, my experience has been that any aquarium type protein skimming is not strong enough to remove any significant amount or the ions themselves, to effect plant growth.
Here are a couple videos of a small koi pond where I use fractionation.
You can see that the plants are not suffering, and water lilies, water hyacinth and papyrus are heavy feeders.
koi pond fractionation
GOPR6064
Here are a couple videos of a small koi pond where I use fractionation.
You can see that the plants are not suffering, and water lilies, water hyacinth and papyrus are heavy feeders.
koi pond fractionation
GOPR6064
Tha thanks a lot I really really really needed to know that because I think that adding a protein skimmer to my aquaponics system will do it well instead of taking my nutrients out plants
Do you ever ship any of your plants if you've got any overgrowth well I'm asking if you would sell some I guess I have a about four or five small water hyacinth and a couple of irises that are nice water plants and duckweed as well one Amazon sword and all that's going to go in first I'm going to keep my vegetables that I have and pots until my system Cycles then I've got goldfish that I'm putting in goldfish are very small but they will grow and get pretty large so going to have to wait quite a few months before my fish get to the size that will supply the nutrients for all the plants up until then can I add nutrients to support the plants until the fish get bigger and one of the items I've already purchased is Alaskan fish it's a fish oil based fertilizer for plants and it's organic have you ever heard of it
I live in Panama, Central America now, and shipping any live pants or animals, is a no no, and shipping anything over a short time is ver costly, a 1 ounce letter over 48 hours to the US ran @ $60, so you can imagine what a plant with a smidgen of water and the proper paperwork would cost. I've never used any fertilizer other than little iron based substrate.
"Do you ever ship any of your plants if you've got any overgrowth"
The line above, is from your post above 3posts above.
The line above, is from your post above 3posts above.
And BTW I have shipped plants and fish through the mail regular usps and have had great experiences shipping live. But nowhere near as far away as you are. So I can see the problem. But the plants with just a little water if someone' willing to pay you should look into shipping them.
When I lived in the US, I shipped fish and plants across country regularly.
The paper work here to ship anything alive would cost hundreds if not $1000, and the cost of shipping 1 box would be in the hundreds, and because I live on an island, just getting to a shipper would eat up an entire day, plus ferry tickets, and other transportation costs. Not even remotely worth the hassle.
The paper work here to ship anything alive would cost hundreds if not $1000, and the cost of shipping 1 box would be in the hundreds, and because I live on an island, just getting to a shipper would eat up an entire day, plus ferry tickets, and other transportation costs. Not even remotely worth the hassle.