Popular recreational and commercial fish. A tank is needed to house the animal being cultured. From the tank the water flows out through a particle filter to remove waste and excess feed. At this point of the system, a pump is plumed in to aid in the movement of the water through the rest of the system. The water then gets pumped up through a biological filter that strips the water of toxic forms of ammonia that are dangerous to the animal.
Water then passes through a UV treatment to reduce the bacteria and virus growing within the system.
The water then returns to the tank. Back to Top Building your own recirculating hatchery Aquaculture is an excellent tool to be used in an educational setting. A real life recirculating system that mimics a production scale system can be used an exciting tool to demonstrate a growing industry in a classroom or school. It is self-contained, requires minimal maintenance, and user friendly to teachers and students. One could set up a fish tank and use that to teach many of the same subjects of study, but by using a real life model of a industrial system, students will be able to identify with the process of building a functioning system out of several different types of materials and tools.