Track: Undergraduate Student Paper Competition

Abstract

For many years, researchers improve the maintenance system of all aquaculture technology including the best idea for water maintenance and sustainability. The study is coming from a premise that the prevalence of certain factors such as pH and temperature affects water quality for pond and aquarium system. With this epistemology, the study posits that the idea of combining five different existing filtration technologies to create a new filtration technology system that will minimize the effort of performing manual maintenance procedure of keeping freshwater ornamental fish. The logic behind this idea is to choose the best characteristics of existing design of filtration system and eliminate characteristics that contribute to the negative side. Using experimental method, the proponents considered material selection and system design in order to improve the potency of a design filtration unit which greatly affects amount of energy consumed and huge volume of water consumption. Testing was performed to validate the efficiency of materials along with their characteristics. Results of the study revealed that waste water can be renewed with the use of filtration media classified as mechanical, chemical and biological. The results of the study were contributory to improve the effectiveness of water treatment by introducing additional treatments in the mechanical filtration, proposing a chemical treatment in one of the stages, and boosting the biological absorbance of waste nutrients by applying Phytoremediation. The study suggests that water quality is the key to a healthy livestock.