RU138156U1 - DEVICE FOR FILTERING WATER AND MAINTAINING BIOLOGICAL EQUILIBRIUM IN AQUARIUM - Google Patents

Abstract

A device for filtering water and maintaining biological balance in the aquarium, including a container located above the water level, containing a filter substrate with rooted plants, a tank equipped with a water-lifting device, and forming a cavity with the bottom of the aquarium, perforated false, connected by a pipe system so that the container inlet pipe is connected to the outlet nozzle is false, and the outlet nozzle of the vessel is connected to the inlet nozzle of the false.

Description

The utility model relates to the field of technology: filters for the aquarium.

A device "false with an airlift" is known, containing a perforated false, forming a cavity between it and the bottom of the aquarium and a pipe, extending upward and equipped with a water-lifting device for taking water from the inter-bottom space. Filtration is carried out through a layer of soil lying on the false. (Khomchenko I.G., Trifonov A.V., Razuvaev B.N. “Modern Aquarium and Chemistry”. Year of release 1997. Genre: Aquarium. Publisher: LLC Novaya Volna Publishing House. ISBN 5-7864-0035-2 .Format: PDF. Quality: OCR without errors. Number of pages: 119. Language: Russian)

Its disadvantages are: low productivity, uneven, local "siltation", i.e. contamination by hydrobiont waste products, the difficulty of cleaning the filter medium, which requires “siphoning” the soil with a special device or hose. The discharge of water from a point above its surface into the thickness is not efficient enough to facilitate the movement of waste accumulated in the inter-bottom space to the water intake pipe

The closest technical solution adopted for the prototype is a phytofilter, which is a container located above the water level in the aquarium, equipped with a water-lifting device, filled with a substrate with plants growing in it. Filtration is carried out through the substrate, getting into which the waste products of aquatic organisms become a food source for microbes that inhabit the substrate and plants growing in the substrate of the phyto filter. (Zolotnitsky NF “Lover's Aquarium.” Year of issue: 1993 (1st edition 1882). Publisher: TERRA. ISBN: 5-85255-405-7. Language: Russian. Number of pages: 603)

The disadvantage of the prototype is that the intake of water for filtration is made from the surface or middle layers of water, which cannot prevent siltation of the soil in the aquarium and necessitates periodic cleaning of the bottom with a special device - a siphon or hose.

The objective of the utility model is to increase the efficiency of water filtration and the stability of biological balance in the aquarium, to minimize operations for caring for the aquarium and the time spent on maintaining the aquarium.

To solve this problem, a device for filtering water and maintaining biological balance in the aquarium is proposed. The perforated bottom, as an element of the proposed device, allows to isolate excess digestion waste products of hydrobionts that are not mastered by bottom microorganisms, which upset the balance of biological equilibrium in the aquarium and create a space for the directed flow of water, carrying this waste through the branch pipe up to the container with a substrate inhabited by microorganisms and with growing there are plants whose roots, coupled with soil microorganisms, serve as a biofilter for aquarium water. The coaxial method of connecting the nozzles for raising water provides protection against complete emptying of the volume of the aquarium in case of water leakage from a container with a substrate located above the aquarium. The water discharged through hermetically connected nozzles for draining creates a directed current in the inter-bottom space, continuing the cycle of water being purified. The box for lighting devices sealed here from the container with the substrate is used to illuminate plants above and below the water for the photosynthesis process, and also, due to the heat generated, to heat the water, which contributes to the processing activity of microorganisms.

A container with a filtering substrate with plants, equipped with a water-lifting device with a spillway after a gravity filtration cycle, provides a technical result that is usual in efficiency, however, combining it with a false one (to create targeted water circulation) into a single device with a pipe system, the pair of which serves to deliver organic waste from the bottom , the most stagnant zone upwards, into the filtering tank, and the other pair creates a directed current of water that does not allow the waste to stagnate and moves this waste to raising (the same current ensures the movement of water through the soil layer in the aquarium itself, enhancing the effect of biofiltration by soil microbes and aquatic plants), makes the entire volume of the aquatic system flowing and allows you to get a new quality of stable equilibrium of the biosystem, reducing time and labor costs for maintaining the aquarium.

The present invention allows to obtain the following technical result. The efficiency of water filtration in the aquarium is increased due to such a spatial arrangement of the elements of the device, which provides a more efficient intake and a more optimal circulation of filtered water, carrying the waste products of hydrobionts through a larger mass of inorganic filtering material with the plant root system and the biomass of microorganisms that inhabit them in the process of decomposition and processing of waste products of aquatic organisms. Reducing labor and time costs for maintenance of the aquarium due to the fact that the collection of waste from the inter-bottom space has become more efficient by increasing the directed flow of water in the inter-bottom space from the receiving pipe to the outlet pipe. Waste removed from the aquarium is assimilated by ground plants growing in the container above the aquarium, whose stems and leaves need to be simply trimmed periodically.

Figure 1 schematically shows the device and the principle of its operation.

The device consists of a perforated false bottom (1) with branch pipes extending from it: output (9) and input (8). An outlet pipe (7) of the container is tightly connected to the inlet pipe of the false bottom (8) with a substrate (2) located above the aquarium. The inlet pipe (6) of the container with the substrate, equipped with a water-lifting device (3), is coaxially fixed in the outlet pipe of the false (9). A box (4) with lighting equipment is located in a container with a substrate.

The device operates as follows. The waste products of hydrobionts, not assimilated by bottom microbes, through the openings of the false bottom (1) fall into the inter-bottom space, where they are carried out by the flow of water (5) to the false side pipe (9), from where they are drawn into the container with the substrate (2) saturated (2), saturated plant roots and also serving as a biofilter, where the final purification of water occurs, which is discharged through the pipe (7), causing a directed flow of water (5) in the inter-bottom space from the pipe (8) to the pipe (9). The box (4), tightly separated from the container with the substrate (2), contains lighting devices that cause the light to process photosynthesis of aquarium (aquatic) and above-ground plants, which contributes to the processing of waste, as well as to heat the aquarium water washing it around the perimeter, which contributes to the activity of microorganisms.

There is a specific example of a proposed utility model. The device was invented and created by Artemy Aksinyin, a student of the 2nd grade gymnasium, and described in his school project work “Creating a Perfect Aquarium System or Eco-Nano Aquas”. Here you can also find information about tests of a prototype of the proposed model carried out at a specially equipped test bench, where a positive result was experimentally confirmed.

Thus, the present invention allows to increase the efficiency of filtering water in the aquarium, increase the stability of biological balance, reduce labor and time costs for maintaining the aquarium.

Claims (1)

A device for filtering water and maintaining biological balance in the aquarium, including a container located above the water level, containing a filter substrate with rooted plants, a tank equipped with a water-lifting device, and forming a cavity with the bottom of the aquarium, perforated false, connected by a pipe system so that the container inlet pipe is connected to the outlet nozzle is false, and the outlet nozzle of the vessel is connected to the inlet nozzle of the false.

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