Before going to discuss about the how to Buy Best Biofloc Air Pump lets understand the concept of Biofloc System.
What is a Biofloc System?
Biofloc is a system where we grow a particular good bacteria i.e. Bacillus Group of Bacteria in the culture water, these good bacteria does two major activity in the culture water i.e.
Remove Toxic Gas i.e. Total Ammonia Nitrogen & Hydrogen Sulfite Gas
Converts Uneaten Feed into Protein Cells, called Flocs
Because of these two powerful mechanism, the culture water never get polluted and it allows us to do high density fish or shrimp farming in very low space.
How Biofloc System Works?
Biofloc is a bacterial culture, first we need to get those Bacillus Group Of Bacteria, which is available in the market in the form of “Probiotics for Biofloc”. These bacteria comes in a inactive form, latter it needs to be activated using the activation process in the culture water.
Once they are fully grown in the culture tank, then fish or shrimp seeds can be stocked in the tank. Just remember one thing, unless the bacteria colony are not fully grown in the tank, you must not stock the fish or shrimp seeds because due to low bacteria colony, it cannot help to maintain the required water parameters.
When the bacteria colony are strong enough, then stock the seeds and continue with feeding management. When you feed them with high protein feeds, if its not consumed by the fishes or shrimps, it can pollute the water when it get decomposed. If that scenario happens immediately these bacteria will work on it and neutralize those toxic fas formation and converts the excess feeds into protein cells which latter can be consumed by the animals.
This is a continuous process till the bacteria lives in the tank. These are also aerobic bacteria, which means they also need good amount of oxygen to thrive. So always ensure aeration is continuously running in you tank and for that you need to have best biofloc air pump.
How to calculate Biofloc Air Pump Requirements?
Before I show you the calculation part of the aeration system, lets understand few other things i.e. who are participants needs contineous aeration, lets evaluate that first;
- Fish or Shrimps
- Bacteria
- Aquatic Animals
- Algae
So these are the influential factors in the culture tank. So its very essential to understand all these dissolved oxygen influencing factors to measure and calculate the proper aeration demand in the culture water.
To make the things simple and easier, lets consider you have a 10,000 liter biofloc tank and you are looking to buy best biofloc air pump.
To make the things simple and easy here is my formula, which I derived it from my experience.
If you are planning for Fish Farming in 10,000 liter tank, then you need at least 100lpm to 120lpm Biofloc Air Pump to fulfil the aeration requirements through out the culture period.
LPM stands for Liter Per Minute, its a measuring factor of the oxygen flow. So when you are planning to buy a Biofloc Air Pump, you need to check the technical data sheet.
Likewise, if your project size is 100,000 liter capacity, then you need 1000lpm to 12000lpm pump.
I hope now you have got some knowledge how to buy best biofloc air pump for the culture.
Various Types Biofloc Air Pump
There are various types of aeration pumps are available in the market for the Biofloc Fish or Shrimp Farming. Before buying best aeration pump for Biofloc farming, one should know some knowledge about these pumps, otherwise you will end up with buying the wrong aeration pumps for your biofloc project.
Electromagnetic and Diaphragm Air Pump
[Electromagnetic Air Pump] [Diaphragm Air Pump]
Both of these aeration pumps are very popular in aquaculture and its been used for quite long time. These are the low pressure and low electricity consumption pumps, mostly preferred in aquariums or small scale aquaculture project.
These pumps produce large size air bubble because of which 7%-80% of the air bubbles get wasted. These types of motors are not suitable for large scale aquaculture projects. As it consumes low electricity to run, so it can be connected to battery operated inverter backup system, so that on power outage there will be no power interruptions.
Lets say you are planning for a small biofloc project of size 10,000 to 20,000 liter, then you can consider these air pumps, which can fulfill the aeration requirements.
You can buy Electromagnetic and Diaphragm Air Pump from Amzon Online Store
Ring Blower and Roos Blower Air Pump
[Ring Blower Aeration Pump] [ Roots Blower Aeration Pump]
If you want o Buy Ring Blower or Roots Blower for Biofloc or Aquaculture Purpose, you can WhatsApp me at +91-9777876057, I will give you good deals directly from the manufacturers. As these pumps are not getting sold in Amazon or Flipkart Online Stores.
Ring Blowers and Roots Blowers are more preferred in medium to large scale commercial project. These aeration pumps produces very high rate of air flow with small air bubble size and the rate of air bubble waste is less than 30%. Unlike Electromagnetic and Diaphragm pumps where the waste is more than 70-80%. These aeration pumps are more reliable and efficient for commercial projects.
These aeration pumps consume high electricity, so it cannot be connected with battery operated inverters, so you need to have Diesel Generator (DG) to support outage. While considering buying the Diesel Generator, always check with DG consultants or experts, who can give you proper DG buying guidelines.
These aeration pumps comes with single phase as well as three phase connectivity. Three phase aeration pumps are more reliable and long duration compared to single phase aeration pumps. So need to remember all these points while buying these aeration pumps.
Till today these aeration pumps are used in commercial aquaculture farms, roots blowers are more proffered over the ring blower due to high performance and efficiency.
Paddle Wheel Aerators
Paddle Wheel Aerators, which is also known as surface aerators as its crate air bubbles on the surface of the water. This aeration system being used in traditional fish or shrimp farming for a long time. Mostly it is used in traditional shrimp farming ponds for two reasons i.e.
- Creating Dissolved Oxygen (DO) in Pond Water
- Water Movement for Easy Sludge Management
Till today Paddle Wheel Aerator are proffered not because of dissolved oxygen creation but for water movement purpose. When it circulates the water in the pond, all the sludges get collected at the center of the pond, where it can be easily removed.
These Paddle Wheel Aerators comes with single phase and three phase connectivity along with different set up paddles i.e. 2 Paddle Wheel Aerators, 4 Paddle Wheel Aerators, 6 Paddle Wheel Aerators, 8 Paddle Wheel Aerators, 12 Paddle Wheel Aerators and 16 Paddle Wheel Aerators even more.
Most popular ones are 4-8 Paddle Wheel Aerators.
The Paddle Wheel Aerators unable to create high dissolved oxygen in water as 90% or more air bubbles get wasted as its created on the surface of the water. So for very high density culture only these Paddle Wheel Aerators cannot support it, along with this you need to have additional aeration pumps.
Venturi Aeration Pump
Venturi Aeration Pumps are newly developed aeration system, which is getting very popular now days. This is just a submersible pump and a small pvp pipe is connected to its suction end to get the air from the environment and get mixed by the motor to produce tiny bubbles on the bottom of the tank or pond.
This is a individual aeration pump unlike Ring Blower and Roots Blowers. Which mean for each tank or pond you need to buy separate pumps. The major challenge with aeration system is, if you are having lets say more than 10=15 tanks then you need 15 number of these pumps. If one pump is of 1hp, then total 15hp power is need to run the project. Which will be quite expensive as it will consume huge electricity.
If you are having 1-2 tanks, then its good as it produces very tiny bubbles on the bottom of the water and waste rate will be under 20%, so the dissolved oxygen (DO) will be good.
These pumps cost low compared to other high performance pumps. So choose it wisely depending upon your requirements.
If you want to buy Ventiri Pumps, please WhatsApp me +91-9777876057, I will give you good deal directly from manufacturer as these products are not available online stores.
Turbine Jet Aerators
Turbine Jet Aerators are newly developed concept to produce micro bubbles. These aeration systems are quite efficient to produce high dissolved oxygen (DO) in culture water to support high density farming. Again this is an individual aeration system, so you need to buy multiple of these aeration system if you have number of tanks of ponds.
Currently these Turbine Jet Aeration System are quite expensive, normally a small farmer cannot afford it. I bought one Turbine Jet Aerator for my biofloc pond, the details are here https://youtu.be/U06p2zFUq6M
If you are interested to Buy Tubrine Jet Aerator, please WhatsApp me +91-9777876057, I will connect to you the right vendor.
Nano Bubble Aeration System
Nano Bubble Aeration System is a newly innovation technology by the Japan, this system produces very tiny microscopic bubbles, you can think of like the nano bubble size is 10,000 times small than that of normal air bubbles. This is a recently developed technology.
So what I heard is, once you run the system for 1-2hrs in your culture pond, so you don’t have the run the aeration system for next 10-15 days as the microscopic bubbles remains on the bottom of the tank and slowly get diffuse, which helps to maintain high dissolved oxygen (DO) in water.
Really, this is an awesome technology and apart from aquaculture its been used in many different applications. You can check out this website for more information https://www.moleaer.com/nanobubbles.
But this nanobubble technology is too cost to adopt for a aqua farmer, may be going forward, the solution will be cheaper.
Among all the aeration solution, this nanobubble aeration solution is superior.
I believe this piece of information on how to Buy Best Biofloc Air Pump may help you to choose right aeration pump for your Biofloc Project.
Please WhatsApp me, if you still need more information about the aeration system, surely I will help you
