Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

...Can I use it in anyway for the aquaponics system? I have searched and cant find a proper answer...

I shouldnt say proper answer... a defintive answer...

You can collect fish poo out of a swirl filter and feed it to the worms. Or you can throw some worms into the GB's and let them live there. Later you can feed some worms to the fish.

I might chuck some in the grow beds... I have that much worm castings and nothing I can do with them..

I like using worm castings mixed with compost and old potting soil to make new potting mix.

Definitely put a few hand fulls of worms and castings in each grow bed when you start them up. Worms are good in flood and drain media filled grow beds. Worm castings seem to help give a jump start for the bacteria in the grow beds.

I've also used blobs of worm castings for starting seeds in the grow beds.

If you have plenty of worms, then you can feed some worms to your fish.

I don't know of any good way to directly use the worm farm as a direct part of the AP system but they are good complimentary operations. The old harvested plants can often be used as food for the worm bin while the worm bin can provide worms and castings for the AP system.

If you have any dirt garden space at all, even if it is only a few container plants, you can simply put worm castings around the plants. Worm castings make really good seed starting material but you do have to be careful not to make it too wet as castings hold water well. You can make worm tea from the finished castings to spray on your AP plants to help against some diseases and to give the plants trace nutrients.

Hope this helps. And if you really don't have a use for the finished castings, you could probably sell them and if not that, you could probably earn big bonus points by giving them to deserving friends.

Excellent...thanks for those ideas.

"Got Worms?" - Dumb and Dumber movie