AQUATIC VERMICULTURE by SKILLICORN Technologies
How Aquatic Vermiculture creates synergies and adds value to advanced, innovative agriculture
Highly optimized aquatic vermiculture will produce, with a single layer channel, approximately 3 times the tonnage of meat as does today’s broiler culture system on a footprint basis – or approximately 600 tonnes per 2 dimensional hectare. With 20 layers in a single module, STL’s aquatic vermiculture system can produce 12,000 tons of meat – approximate 4,000 tons dry weight – per productive 1 hectare footprint, or 3,000 tons dry weight per hectare of occupied space – a building or array of airconditioned containers.
Supporting a single 3-dome aquaponics system requires production of 70 tonnes dwt of Tubifex aquatic worms that can be grown in a 15m x 15m x 3m room or approximately eight 40’ x 8’ containers. Ideally, the room – or the containers – should be buried under at least 1 meter of earth and kept at approximately 21 degrees Celsius.
STL Aquatic vermiculture systems can grow many species of aquatic worms: California black worms and common tubifex species being preferred. Systems are fully automated and deliver food (mostly aquaculture sludge and fish processing wastes), oxygen and carriage water employing continuous laminar flow over a special clay-mix lined production lane. Daily harvesting, which is similarly fully automated, is stimulated by cutting off oxygen and food and lowering irrigation water delivery across the production lanes. Denied oxygen, worms migrate to a peripheral harvesting channel carrying highly oxygenated water. Once calculated daily harvest volumes are met, the harvest lanes fold up and normal oxygenated laminar feed flows again commence.
Supporting a single 3-dome aquaponics system requires production of 70 tonnes dwt of Tubifex aquatic worms that can be grown in a 15m x 15m x 3m room or approximately eight 40’ x 8’ containers. Ideally, the room – or the containers – should be buried under at least 1 meter of earth and kept at approximately 21 degrees Celsius.
STL Aquatic vermiculture systems can grow many species of aquatic worms: California black worms and common tubifex species being preferred. Systems are fully automated and deliver food (mostly aquaculture sludge and fish processing wastes), oxygen and carriage water employing continuous laminar flow over a special clay-mix lined production lane. Daily harvesting, which is similarly fully automated, is stimulated by cutting off oxygen and food and lowering irrigation water delivery across the production lanes. Denied oxygen, worms migrate to a peripheral harvesting channel carrying highly oxygenated water. Once calculated daily harvest volumes are met, the harvest lanes fold up and normal oxygenated laminar feed flows again commence.
BENEFITS OF STL Aquatic Vermiculture
