Recycling Water from Water Changes

[tak]

A lot of the land locked aquariums/zoos that run large systems reclaim all of their water. It's put into large storage chambers/tanks/etc.... then run on it's own filter systems and usually burned fairly well with O3 injection to clean it up. From there it's moved back into a holding tank (with a recirculating pump) until it's needed to top off a display after a water change.

Do you have any more information on this? Particularly the length of time between ozone injections and usage. Do they use sodium biosulphate to eliminate the ozone or just activated carbon?

 

[danz]

The concept I was going to use for my outdoor grow out was a holding pond packed with water hyacinth due to the amazing root structure of it as well use ghost shrimp to remove any debris then before adding back into the system move to an oxygenating tank with fine bubbles that's deep with heaters. In theory should work and all my buddies with fish farms say it should work also

 

[justin guest]

A lot of the land locked aquariums/zoos that run large systems reclaim all of their water. It's put into large storage chambers/tanks/etc.... then run on it's own filter systems and usually burned fairly well with O3 injection to clean it up. From there it's moved back into a holding tank (with a recirculating pump) until it's needed to top off a display after a water change.

how is phosphate removed?

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[sirdavidofdiscus]

I started another thread in response to this one about using wc water for toilets,

 

[johnny roastbeef]

Boil it in a pot, add some veggies and tell her its 'fish stock'

 

[Guapote]

Boil it in a pot, add some veggies and tell her its 'fish stock'

Yummy! Protein and all!

I bought a house that was bank owned. Needless to say, all of the grass was dead. After a few months of water changes, it is super green and plants are growing like crazy.

Use it to water plants and grass. Avoid the drain, eliminate the need for a sprinkler system.

If your grass needs watering, do a water change. Your fish will appreciate it as much as your neighbors.

 

[zennzzo]

http://www.absoluteozone.com/ozone_generator_aquaculture.htm

good read...

 

[meghanashley]

I dump into plants during the winter but I don't have enough trees and plants indoor to dump all the water during winter water changes. I leave my tank tops open during the winter and with the heat there is more evaporation so I just syphon and add water.

This is not for your fish tank but since your not connected to city water. . . This will cut down other water usage in the house.


Recycle your own sewage and slash water use



A Sydney scientist has developed a revolutionary sewage recycling technology for homes and apartments that are a spin-off from nuclear research at Lucas Heights to develop antibiotics and environmental repair technology. Dr Tony Taylor, a microbiologist for the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) has developed technolgy that uses bacteria and fungi to convert sewage into water fit for gardens, flushing toilets and cleaning. :::[SMH]

A home would need a unit, costing about $2000, fitted with 40 to 50 gills - membranes, or panels - each about one metre by 1.5 metres. Sewage flowing down the middle of each gill would seep through, feeding bacteria and fungi growing on the outside.

The bacteria and fungi would eat the waste, using oxygen from the air to remove nutrients and toxins. So, it was also "a stomach and a lung". "We are aiming at reducing water consumption at the house by 40 to 60 per cent. You would still have sewage leaving the house, but it would first go around two or three times."

While existing sewage treatment plants already use bacteria, the new technology was significantly more efficient, and a fifth the cost.

Conventional treatment systems also use oxygen, creating bubbles in the sewage. "But bubbles are very expensive to make," Dr Taylor said. "They use a lot of electricity, producing lots of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels."
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The running costs of the 'nano-particulate membrane bio-reactor' are about $A1.30 per kilolitre, the current cost of Sydney town-water.

Global Warming Climate Change Environment Lifestyle Green Drought Sewage Recycling Australia LOHAS Kyoto Energy



Posted by Wadard @ 10:46
Labels: water

 

[James0816]

Thanks to CNNs web site, I just thought of something else that could drive this. Again concerning the well. If in drought conditions the well could have a tendency to run low if not dry. Make for interesting thought but yet...not something I want to think about having to drill a new well. ;o)

 

[Danger_Chicken]

No...the idea is not to get her out of my ear. ;o)

It's like recycling paper and cans. Yes putting the water back in ground is "recycling" however, it's like pouring a bucket of water from the tap and putting it on the ground. No applicable use thus considered as "wasting".

the fish waste in the water addeds nutirents to the soil.

A lot of the land locked aquariums/zoos that run large systems reclaim all of their water. It's put into large storage chambers/tanks/etc.... then run on it's own filter systems and usually burned fairly well with O3 injection to clean it up. From there it's moved back into a holding tank (with a recirculating pump) until it's needed to top off a display after a water change.

Its been a while since I read up on ozone but can it be removed with an airstone?

Thanks to CNNs web site, I just thought of something else that could drive this. Again concerning the well. If in drought conditions the well could have a tendency to run low if not dry. Make for interesting thought but yet...not something I want to think about having to drill a new well. ;o)

This is the only viable reason in your situation. You can take going green too far.