One of my ongoing freshwater project, trying to achieve a fully sustainable automatic system with one controller and can be remotely controlled by one app/interface, with reasonable cost. Most controller on the market are designed for reef keeping, and can cost a liver to get the full setup.
As for now everything is powered by wifi strips or other wifi controllers and can be accessed via multiple apps, rollermat for mechanical filtering, auto water change and plant for nutrients export, controllers that monitor ph and temperature that interacts with dosing pump and heater.....
And for biological filtering, in the third chamber (from left to right) i am only running 1/3 of my original traditional filter media as i slowly moving towards anoxic filter(second chamber underneath the plants, by Dr. Kevin Novak.) Very interesting concept, I think it can potentially eliminate or significantly reduce the need for water change.
Ps: no the tank inhabitants are not suffering, i do daily water test, and there is a auto water change system in place.
Ignore the poor cable and plumbing management, this is a just temporary set up, everything is dry fitted. I am putting things in and out every day .... as I am finishing wiring my own reef pi controller
Hopefully nothing is going to blow up.....