Aquaponics Balance Calculator
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Design and build a balanced farm
Compute the perfect fish engine size for your vegetable target.
Ceres-Calculator
A small car engine can't power a big truck. A truck engine is oversized for a small car.
Similarly, your aquaponics fish engine should be sized to your growing area.
Features
Fish engine smart sizing recommendations
Optimized weekly seeding plant
Outputs expected monthly production.
Production optimization through growing at different densities.
Module 1 - Continous plants in trays
Module 1 calculates the production and size of fish engines for plants grown continuously in a specified area. For example, it can calculate the production and size of fish engines for cooking herbs like parsley, chives, rosemay, coriander, and other plants growing on trays like celery, spinach, chili, kale, …
In Module 1:
• Select your preferred unit system, Metric or Imperial.
• Input the number of trays, their area, and the monthly production per tray.
Ceres-Calculator outputs monthly production, daily feeding rate, fish requirement, and tank size.
Module 2 - Batch plants in pots
Module-2 calculates the production and size of fish engines for potted plants, such as lettuce.
Farm setting
In Module-2:
• Select your preferred unit system, Metric or Imperial.
• Adjust the number of slots in your trays.
• Input the number of boards in your farm.
• Adjust the averaged harvesting weight per plants.
• Adjust the germination efficiency. Find more details in the Plant Care section.
Density growing schedule
The potted plants farming process involves three major steps:
• Germination (7 days)
• Nursery (usually 14 days) in high-density spacing where the pots are next to each others
• Production lines: 3 to 6 weeks depensing on the plant
To maximize the farm production, we utilize all available growing space.
In the production lines, the plant density should be adapted to the plant size.
• Period 1: 100% of the board slots are used
• Period 2: 50% of the board slots are used, providing more growing space to the plants.
• Period 3: 25% of the board slots are used at the end of the growing process.
As plants grow larger than their nursery pots, they’re moved to a production line growing at 100% density. When they touch again, the 100% density boards are split into two 50% density boards. Some lettuce varieties, like cos, can be harvested at 100% or 50% density, while others, like Oak, need an additional period at 25% density.
Very large plants like Oak lettuce may need a board split again to 25% density.
If you need advise for over 50 plants, get Ceres-Production.
If you desice to grow your vegetables at a single density, enter the number of days at that density, and leave the other fields at 0 days.
This process significantly impacts monthly production. Find more details in the Production Planning learning section and the Plant Care section.
Outputs
Ceres-Calculator provides:
• Expected growing area density split (boards and plants at each growing density)
• Expected daily and monthly production
• Weekly seeding requirement
• Size of the required nursery
• Quantity of daily fish food and number of fish needed
• Size of the fish tank required
Do you need a more advanced calculator?
Advanced Aquaponics farm production prediction design app
In Ceres-Production, enter the desired product and selling price for each of the 50+ plants individually.
Then, Ceres-Production:
Provide valuable information on aquaponics farming for each plant.
Sizes the required farm area
Sizes the fish engine
Design your weekly seeding plan according to your production targets
Advises on mineralization supplement
Provides a summary of the farm vegetables and fish production and revenue expectations
Ceres-Production takes into account growlight duration and water temperature
Customer reviews and feedback
Latest reviews
Ceres Production is exactly what I was looking for
I used Ceres Calculator a few months ago and asked AHAS for a more advanced app to design my farm based on the vegetables I wanted to grow. They did it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ceres Production is totally amazing. And computing the fish food requirement based on the plant needs is definitely the way to go.
Thank you so much.
Response from AHAS
Wade, we are very pleased to know you found Ceres Production useful. Thank you for your feedback and dedication to AHAS apps.
It's working!
I heard about aquaponics, but I did not know how to balance my DIY system. I built it based on advice from the Ceres Calculator, and it works well. I even purchased Ceres Production after that to move to the next level and expand my farm.
Aquaponics is amazing!
Very simple app
Ceres Calculator is great, but would it be better to design a farm for selectable crops?
Response from AHAS
Hi Wade, Ceres Production is coming out very soon. Stay tuned!