The Sizzling Aquarium Aquascaping is becoming an increasingly popular and for those with the appropriate expertise, an increasingly profitable activity. Aquascaping is the cultivation of plants and fish in an aquatic landscape. The ideal aquascape would contain many plants.
Plant growth is supported by lights, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and trace elements.
With the correct combination of these four components, the fish tank will literally sizzle as a result of the many oxygen bubbles that will be released on the underside of the plants. The aquascaper must understand how to balance plant growth with that of algae. An imbalance in any of the four requirements can lead to an ugly explosion of spotted or hair algae. The Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering Department has recently constructed a Sizzling Fish Tank. The tank contains a range of broad-leaf and stemmed plants as well as a mixture of mainly South American Tetras and Corydoras with a few Asian Barbs to keep the algal population down.