A home aquaponics grow bed having a hydroponic growing bed with a removable filter component, a depression in the hydroponic growing bed, a removable lid that houses plant and/or plants, and a port and/or hole for allowing water to flow out of the invention and into the fish tank. The grow bed attaches to standard fish tank aquariums converting the fish tank aquariums into a home aquaponics gardening kit. The grow bed enables a user to grow fresh aquaponics herbs, microgreens, medicinal plants, and vegetables in their home using a freshwater aquarium.

A system is provided for controlling an aquatic habitat. The system for includes a server, a bridge, and a habitat component. The server includes a database containing information associated with a habitat component. The server also includes a communication interface for transmitting operating data for the habitat component. The bridge has a first communication unit configured to communicate with the server communication interface and transmit the operating data received from the server to the habitat component. The habitat component has a second communication unit for receiving operating data from the bridge.

The method for a skin treatment using a first snail on a human patient includes placing the first snail on a first surface to allow the first snail to attach itself to the first surface. The method further includes projecting a first predetermined amount of a first agent onto the first snail with to cause the first snail to secrete a liquid on the first surface. The method further includes administering the secreted liquid over a surface of a skin of a portion of a body of the human patient.

Disclosed are livewell systems and methods of operating livewell systems. A livewell system may include a livewell tank having a chamber formed therein, a fill sensor configured to detect a fill level of the chamber, an intake pump configured to selectively convey water into the chamber, and a control unit including a processor and a memory storing instructions. The processor may be configured to execute the instructions to receive a fill signal, determine whether the chamber is filled to a predetermined fill level; and in response to the fill signal and a determination that the chamber is not filled to the predetermined fill level, cause the intake pump to convey water into the chamber.

An aquaponic system includes a frame, an aquarium located at a lower portion of the frame and provided with a motor, a plurality of cultivating tanks arranged on the frame and having two opposite sides provided with a plurality of inlet tanks and a plurality of outlet tanks, and a strainer unit mounted on the frame. Each of the outlet tanks is connected with a lower one of the inlet tanks. The strainer unit includes a water outlet port connected with the water inlet pipe, a water inlet port connected with a water feeding pipe, two hollow clamping plates located between the water outlet port and the water inlet port, a filtering sponge clamped between the two clamping plates, a fertilizer ferment chamber located under the water inlet port, and a drain pipe connected with the fertilizer ferment chamber.

A photobioreactor device for growing photosynthetic organisms, organisms that feed on photosynthetic organisms and hydroponics is disclosed. The device may include a lighting system integrated around the circumference of the device. In embodiments, a cap configured to seal the container has ports configured to permit passage of fluid out of or into a container without removing the cap. In some embodiments, organisms are grown in a disposable bag secured between the cap and the container.

The device for screening for bioactive materials using the visual recognition of animals according to the present invention includes: an accommodating member (100) in which animals administered with a candidate bioactive material are accommodated; an imaging member (200) which captures images of the animals; and a detecting member (300) which reads the images in order to detect the visual recognition reactions of the animals. According to the method of the present invention for screening for bioactive materials using visual recognition of animals, the animals are administered with the candidate bioactive material, and the visual recognition reactions of the animals are detected.

Container for aquatic plants, which can be filled with water, the side walls and bottom of which comprise an outer wall and a bottom wall, respectively, in each instance, followed, toward the interior of the container, by an intermediate layer that consists of an insulating material. On the inside of the container, the insulating material is completely covered with a water-tight plastic film, in the manner of a tub, or by a water-tight basin composed of transparent glass. On the bottom of the tub or of the basin and/or in a plant pot situated in the container, there is a plant culture medium that makes growth of aquatic plants possible, and preferably winter-hardy and/or non-winter-hardy aquatic plants are disposed in the container, which is filled with water.

Modular habitat structure (MHS) which can accommodate one or more live inhabitants is comprised of a rigid pillar which extends linearly away from a base end toward an upper end. A plurality of major system components are disposed at different locations along a length of the rigid pillar. Each of the major system components is comprised of modular segments which individually extend circumferentially around at least a portion of the rigid pillar. The modular configuration of the segments allows user configuration of the MHS by selectively adding or removing one or more segments of each of the major system components.

Disclosed is an aquarium lid. The aquarium lid comprises a lid body made of a transparent rigid material, wherein the shape of an outer edge of the aquarium lid is designed to have a shape adapted to the edge shape of a mouth of an aquarium, and the lid body is further provided with a plurality of shaped bumps, planar regions, through-holes, and edge notches; at least one shaped platform is formed at a top surface of the shaped bumps and/or between at least two shaped bumps. This disclosure also provides an aquarium having the aquarium lid with shaped bumps. The provided aquarium lid with shaped bumps, planar regions, through-holes, and edge notches and the aquarium having the same are simply structured and exhibit aesthetics that meets different demands of viewers.