55 gallon - Plant Filtration

Here is my channal
http://www.youtube.com/user/BensAquariums?feature=mhee

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------­-

Check out www.fishtanktv.ning.com an online aquarium community.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------­-

Leave a comment if you have a question. Rate it thumbs up if like it and Subscribe if you want to see more videos like this in the future!

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• plants
• filters
• filtration
• aquariums
• 55
• gallon
• filter
• media
• anubias
• spider
• pothos
• roots
• algae
• fishtanks
• tank
• aquarium
• nitrates
• remove
• water

[flyinggimpproduction]

Did the Pothos end up living?

[BensAquariums]

@flyinggimpproduction oh my god yes. they are almost up to the ceiling...

[KETIMENE]

why do people put plants in filters?

[BensAquariums]

@KETIMENE It removes the last stage of the nitrogen cycle, nitrates.

[BensAquariums]

@KETIMENE and as I have also recently learned it helps to remove ammonia and nitrites which are even more harmful for the fish.

[edbenedicto]

Aquaponics. Grow vegetables with a gravel grow bed and a bell siphon valve. I'm growing lettuce with a 10 gallon tropical tank. Grow bed is 1'x1'x2' filled with 3/4" river gravel. Also about a 10 gallon pot for a sump. The chop 2 system. Basic carpentry skill to build the grow bed and plastic pond liner. Plumbing skill to route the water and build the siphon. Hardest part for me was making the bulkheads.

[Snuper325]

I like your plant method filtration. I might give it a try if i can get my hands on small filters for my 10.