yeah, but they're bloody expensive! I looked at their systems when I first set up my native fish exhibit for work and it would have cost $1000 for their system! ouch...I paid less than that for the tank, hood, & lights!
-kris
>From: jake levi
>Reply-To: nfc at actwin_com
>To: nfc at actwin_com
>Subject: Re: NFC: plant filtering capabilities
>Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 08:10:08 -0800 (PST)
>
>Inland Aquatics does, they have a website, just do a
>web search for them.
>
>--- Ty_Hall at eFunds_Com wrote:
> >
> > I have been to a website that sells a system just
> > like this. It uses live
> > plants as the filtration media. I'll see if I can
> > find the URL. It might be
> > in my bookmarks at home.
> >
> > Ty
> >
> >
> >
> > Does anyone know the comparitive filtering/water
> > cleaning abilities of
> > different aquarium plants?
> >
> > There's a gentleman in town here (Denver) who has
> > set up an interesting
> > aquarium filter for his marine aquariums. He uses
> > the case & pump from a
> > wet-dry undertank, but instead of using bioballs he
> > fills it with plants.
> > It seems to work great, the tanks in the shop he had
> > that setup on were
> > much healthier than the ones with the traditional
> > set-ups.
> >
> > I'm thinking I would like to combine this idea with
> > my current wet-dry. My
> > plan is to leave the bio balls in, but fill the
> > resevoir side with plants &
> > leave grow light on them all from 1pm to 11am (not
> > quite 24 hours & flipped
> > from the plants in the tank). I'll have to build a
> > screen filter for the
> > pump, but that's pretty simple.
> >
> > My problem is that the only plant I have an abundant
> > amount of is java moss
> > and I'm not sure what kind of filtering ability it
> > has. I could get some
> > cabamba for pretty cheap, but I've never had really
> > good luck with it.
> > Maybe a mixture of assorted plants would be good?
> > My amazon swords from my
> > old tropical tank are sending out babies like
> > mad...they need to be
> > seperated anyway...there's no room for the fish
> > anymore!
> >
> > Suggestions?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > kris
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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