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A grow room, also known as a growth chamber, indoor garden, indoor farm, or sometimes a plant factory, is a specialized room, located indoors, to allow plants to grow under controlled conditions.  They are great for people who are restricted from growing plants outside – not everyone has the luxury of a garden in their […]

Successfully maintaining your aquarium water pH should be enough to qualify anyone for some sort of aqua-science degree. Instead, you get the benefit of watching your fish stay healthy and vibrant. In all seriousness though, tank management is tough stuff sometimes. Raising your pH, lowering your pH, and the basic attempt to maintain a consistent

It is a bad feeling to check on your tanks and find ill or dead fish. Trying to figure out water chemistry can leave you scratching your head. Anyone who has ever had a simple goldfish probably understands this conundrum. One could put up a healthy argument over the fact that cleaning up dog poo

Known to be easy on space and environment, hydroponics is a fantastic growing method. It has been touted as a more of a “hipster” approach to vegetable farming versus the traditional soil-based garden culture. However, despite the cool factor, hydroponic farming tends to scare a few people away because of the difficulty associated with water

The practice of aquaponics is about attending to the delicate balance between plant life and aquatic species occupying the same hydrospace. Anyone who has ever maintained their own fish tank understands the depth of care that goes into keeping the water just right. In nature, the biological elements are designed to comingle together effortlessly resulting

Water this and water that, almost all functions of the natural and man-made world connect to water as an essential resource. Whether it is a lake day in the summer sun or a wastewater treatment plant, water is flowing back and forth, dirty and clean, vapor to rain, in a constant cycle that becomes ever

Ozonated water is not a term you hear often. It makes one think of the ozone layer, and there are only a few among us who have heard of ozone water therapy or have asked their dentist what water they use for mouth rinses. It turns out that ozonated water is believed to be the

Chlorine is a chemical element that belongs to the family of halogens. It is an extremely effective disinfectant as it can kill disease-causing bacteria and viruses, along with microorganisms that live in water, such as algae. Water chlorination has become common practice to prevent the spread of waterborne diseases, and chlorine is routinely added to

We all know the importance of water: this invaluable resource has the power to give life to organisms on earth. This means that if there’s no water, there’s no life! Despite us knowing just how important it is, very few truly understand where it comes from, how we get it, and how we shape it