Automated Aquarium Water Changing System
Group 28
MAE 494 Design Project, Spring Semester 2018
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
State University of New York at Buffalo
Journal Paper Review
Praziquantel degradation in marine aquarium water
Praziquantel (PZQ) is a drug that commonly used to treat parasitic infection and infestations in animals. Moreover, PZQ is also been used in the aquarium to treat the presence of ectoparasites (Type of parasites) on the fish tank and the gills and skin of the fish and the aquarium ornaments. Therefore, PZQ is frequently used to maintain the water condition and the proper bacteria level. However, after the treatment interval, the PZQ must be mechanically removed but there is no alternative research regarding the removal process. Based on the experimental results, the concentration of the PZQ has determined the treatment interval and based on the results. Therefore, it is important to monitor the concentration of the PZQ frequently to ensure that therapeutic levels are being maintained.
Cadmium bioaccumulation and retention kinetics in the Chilean blue mussel Mytilus chilensis: seawater and food exposure pathways.
The journal article that has been searched is about the harmful chemical substance in the water.
Those Chilean blue mussel speaks to the practically essential bivalve misused along those Chilean shorelines and will be a major sustenance wellspring for the Chilean number. Blue mussels gathered along the Chilean coasts hold levels about Cd over those administrative cutoff points to mankind's utilization. The depuration rate to 109Cd gathered through seawater might have been slow, with best 21% of the aggregate 109Cd gathered in the entire mussel continuously wiped out then afterward 52 days. Aggregate disposal on Cd clinched alongside mussels might have been enough portrayed Eventually Tom's perusing a twofold part dynamic model, in which the living half-life for the enduring part speaks to more than 6 months. This information of the long half-life from claiming cadmium gathered by means of seawater and in addition the non-negligible level for cadmium gathered under those shells is pertinent of the administration from claiming cd levels in this species and the refinement about detoxification forms within the request to consent with commissioned Cd levels.
Ubiquitous aquarium management system
‘Ubiquitous Aquarium Management System’ is the paper that described about how sensors and actuators examine the conditions inside of the aquarium and satisfy the customers.
As growing technologies, there are various types of machines or devices that would keep people feel more comfortable. As mentioned by Rajesh, there are various system that sensors and actuators collect data to inform users, such as health care system, and by using the internet of things, IoT, it sends the data to the hospital to inform patient’s conditions and for emergencies. So, these methods were embedded into aquarium as well to monitor temperature, chlorine level,
and pH level.
Aquarium Nitrification Revisited: Thaumarchaeota Are the Dominant Ammonia Oxidizers in Freshwater Aquarium Biofilters
the Ammonia is a toxic metabolic waste product excreted by fish and other aquatic organisms. Remove the ammonia can protect the fish sufficiently. The contents of ammonia can cause stress, disease and death of fish if it is exceed 0.1 in the water. Using the filter with ammonia-oxidizing can decrease the contents of ammonia efficiency. From the article, we know that ammonia-oxidizing bacteria is one of the solution. And this article is focusing on the introduction of Thaumarchaeota, which are some new bacteria have special genes with ammonia-oxidizing ability.