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Overview of the Filtration Room and Hydroponics

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What happens here

The aquarium's filtration is primarily handled by a dedicated 'filtration room' located directly behind the main tank. This room utilizes a hydroponic system, meaning live plants are used to naturally filter the water. This method completely eliminates the need for chemical filtration, as the plants efficiently absorb undesirable elements such as nitrates, ammonia, and potassium from the water. A large mass of plants is crucial for this process, as they perform 100% of the chemical (natural) filtration. The lighting system for the main tank is integrated into this room, featuring a setup on garage door rails that allows it to slide away, providing easy access to the tank for maintenance.

Goal: Understand the design and function of the plant-based filtration system and maintenance access.

Tools and materials

  • Garage Door Rails N/A — Enabling the lighting system to slide for tank access
  • Hydroponic Plants Various species — Natural biological filtration of water
  • Lighting System N/A — Providing light for aquatic plants and observation

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let's gold get into the filtration room this is where things get a lot of fun guys [Music] so the filtration room let you take a look around is mostly done by plants hydroponics there's zero chemical filtration in this room at all all of the nitrates ammonia potassium and all of the other undesirable elements have taken care of by these things with hydroponics is really easy to do it but you've got to have a super large mass of plants but the water itself has to be relatively clean as I'm literally taking the particulate matter out of the water column trapping it in a medium and then removing that and that allows the roots of the plants to grow and flourish and as those roots grow and flourish they're doing a hundred percent of the rest of the filtration so with hydroponics it's a two-step process

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