CONSTRUCTION AND SETTING OF FISH AQUARIUM

Aquarium is an artificially made confinement for various kinds of aquatic organism like their natural ground or in  common language it can be said that aquarium is a system  where various kinds of aquatic organism can be displayed asthey are in natural habitat.  Basically various kinds of ornamental or colorful fish are kept in aquarium.  But not only fish even aquatic plants and other types of aquatic organism like snail,crayfish,crab can also be kept here. Now a days it become very common to see an aquarium in office, bank or any type of public sector and also in our study table or home corner. Aquarium serves mainly the purpose of beautification of room, gives a soothing effect to eye, reduce mental stress. An aquarium makes a great focal point and gathering place in the home and provides a fun activity for the whole family. Aquariums teach kids about nature and caring for one helps them learn responsibility towardsnature. Aquarium also provides a very good option to study or to visualize various aquatic organismsvery closely in the artificially made ecosystem. Thus aquarium becomes a very lucrative business throughout the world now.  Proper learning can help one to set up a perfect beautiful aquarium.
This course is designed so far to train the students to learn the proper scientifical process of aquarium construction and setting with perfect aquarium accessories.
Syllabus –

• What is aquarium and it’s type
• Construction process of public aquarium
• Various kinds of aquarium fish and their feeding and breeding habit
• Various aquarium plant and their necessity in aquarium
• Aquarium accessories and their utility- gravel, filter, aerator, thermostat, light
• Various types of aquarium feeds and its application method.
• Managerial process to run a healthy aquarium

Class module –  unit 1 - Introduction , History ,Definition of aquarium, Types of aquarium,
Unit 2- Construction and setting of aquarium.
 Unit 3- Different equipment used in aquarium with it’s importance – filter ( different types and principle), aerator, gravel, light, thermostat and other ornamental object
Unit 4-  Water quality management and important water quality parameters
Unit 5 – Different fresh water ornamental fish with their origin, Identifying feature, Indigenous and exotic freshwater ornamental freshwater fish of India.
Unit 6- Breeding habit of all commercially important ornamental fish, Breeding and post breeding managementnt of fish with special emphasize on parental care.
Unit 7- Process of introduction of fish in newly constructed aquarium , Different feed used in aquarium with feeding management.
Unit 8 – Live feed culture and application of live feed in aquarium.
Unit 9 – Different plant used in aquarium, Indigenous and exotic type of plant, Merits and demerits of using of plant
Unit 10 – Management of plant in aquarium, Plant propagation technique, Mass production technique.
Unit 11 – Disease management of aquarium fish ( pathogen, symptom, treastment). Control of excessive growth of algae.
Unit 12- Maintenance and  routine management of fresh water aquarium.
Unit 13- Pre-requisite for commercial production of ornamental fish , Process of commercial production of economically important commercial ornamental fish.
Unit 14- Culture technology of different freshwater ornamental fish
Unit 15–Marketing and prospect of aquarium
Unit 16 – Public aquarium, Marine water aquarium and it’s setting
Unit 17- Different marine water ornamental fish- distribution and identifying feature
Unit 18- Breeding management of marine ornamental fish
Unit 19– Ornamental object used in marine aquarium. Water quality management and maintenance of marine aquaria
Unit 20- World trade of ornamental fish and expost potential with special reference on India. Present global and national scenario.
Unit 21- Ornamental fisheries new dimension of aquaculture entrepreneurship.
Unit 22- Commercial aspect of freshwater and marine water aquaria
Unit 23 and 24-  Feedback, doubt clearing on all the related topics of aquarium and management.

EVERY UNIT = 2 hr , EVERY WEEK – 4hr.

 Benefits-

A perfectly designed course can conclude a trainer with proper scientifical knowledge of aquarium and its management which will help them to opt a different professional skill.

• One can easily earn money by constructing only the aquarium structure and selling it.
• Identification of  various ornamental fish, business of ornamental fish throughout the world
• Breeding of the demanding traits of ornamental fish and selling
• Aquarium plants are one of the most important parts of aquarium. A skilled person after training can engage himself for collection and propagation of various beautiful aquarium plants and selling to common man.
• Perfect trained aquarium technical can skillfully engage them to solve or manage aquarium related problem of various office or public aquaria. They can set a consultancy farm only for aquarium purpose so that layman can meet them and discuss their problem.

A technologically sound people can only learn the proper way for setting of an aquarium by making a natural environment but in artificial perspective. And only a perfect environment with the proper living object can make a viable and healthy aquarium for a long duration. So this course would be a beneficial and demanding one for all the students to go for a different profession instead of their main stream job.

A TRAINING ON SYSTEM OF AQUAPONICS

Aquaponics is a cooperation between plants and fish and the term originates from the two words aquaculture (the growing of fish in a closed environment) and hydroponics (the growing of plants usually in a soil-less environment).Aquaponic systems come in various sizes from small indoor units to large commercial units. Today aquaponics become one of the most evolving eco-friendlytechnique in aquaculture and agriculture sector. As this technique have several benefits like it is a soil less technique and can be done in limited water efficiency even without fertilizer and chemical inputs. Indeed this is a very economical technique to employ commercial agriculture with aquaculture in water scarce and soil less polluted areas.One major problem for the sustainability of aquaculture is the treatment of nutrient-rich wastewater, which is a by-product of all the aquaculture methods. Depending on the environmental regulations set by  country, farmers must either treat or dispose of the effluent, which can be both expensive and environmentally harmful. Without treatment, the release of nutrient-rich water can lead to eutrophication and hypoxia in the watershed and localized coastal areas, as well asmacroalgae overgrowth of coral reefs and other ecological and economical disturbances.So this could be an alternate over the all famous traditional fish farming techniques.

SYLLABUS –

1. Introduction to aquaponics
2. Important component of aquaponics with mechanism
3. Design of aquaponics unit
4. Plant in aquaponics
5. Mechanism
6. Combination of plant and fish in the system
7. Management practices and maintenance of the system
8. Application

Class module -

Unit 1 -Introduction to aquaponics, Definition, History, Principle
Unit 2 - Important biological component of aquaponics, Water quality parameter
Unit 3 -  Site selection , Essential component of an aquaponic unit
Unit 4 - Different technique of aquaponics- media bed technique
Unit 5 - Nutrient film technique
Unit 6 - Deep water culture technique
Unit 7- Various types of bacteria used in aquaponics system
Unit 8 - Hydroponic system, Water quality required for plant
Unit 9 - Selection of plant and selection of fish, Nutrient cycling
Unit 10 - Design of hydroponic unit
Unit 11- Integration system of aquaponic with hydroponic
Unit 12-Fish feed and nutrition
Unit 13- Plant health and disease management
Unit 14- Fish health and disease management
Unit 15-Management practices of plant- routine management, monthly activities
Unit 16- Management practices for fish – routine and monthly activities
Unit 17- Sustainable input and maintenance of the total set up
Unit 18- Installation of indoor aquaponic unit
Unit 19- Current application of aquaponic process
Unit 20- Problem and prospect of aquaponic system in global scenario with special reference to India
Unit 21- Commercialization and Superiority of aquaponic system over traditional aquaculture system
Unit 22- Aquaponic- a new trend of entrepreneurship
Unit 23–Aquaponic with input of other commercial food production system
Unit 24- Feed-back and assessment of entire course

Each unit 2 hr. Each week 4 hr
Each course 48 hr- 3 month.

BENEFITS

• Growing plants within the aquaculture system is one method of preventing its release into the environment and ofobtaining additional economic benefits from crops growing with costless by-productsthrough irrigation, artificial wetlands, and other techniques.
• After proper learning of the technique anyone can be an aquaculture entrepreneur with this most emerging pollution free technique.
• This technique doesn’t need any wide space so the people of urban or city area have zeal for fisheries can easily install this within some sq. foot of balcony or terrace.
• Rapidly growing industry will need an increasing number of trained and educated individuals to fill job like Aquaponics Technician, Specialize in fish health, and Specialize in plants health.
• Aquaponics allows us to grow more food at home, for our communities. This means more nutrition since its fresh and much less of all the negatives inputs like chemical pesticides with long distance transportation.