Life support & animal care
Life Support & Animal Care
Scalable holding racks and life-support infrastructure with mechanical, biological and chemical filtration — built to keep water quality stable for long-term studies, breeding colonies and teaching collections.
What is a life-support system?
Stable water, healthy animals, reliable data
Life-support systems keep holding tanks clean, oxygenated and at the right temperature so animals stay healthy between experiments — and so your study animals are consistent.
Water recirculates from the tanks through mechanical, biological and chemical filtration, then back to each tank, with sensors watching conditions around the clock.
- Single, double or multi-rack configurations
- Integrated filtration, monitoring and automation
- Zebrafish specimen cups and holders for breeding and screening
Applications
Where our racks and holding systems work
Model-organism colonies
Zebrafish and other small-fish colonies, breeding and larval rearing.
Holding for experiments
Acclimation and holding before and after trials.
Core facilities
Scalable racks that grow with your program.
Products
Racks, holding systems and specimen holders
Items marked Order online have published pricing. Items marked Configure & quote are engineered to your specifications — build your configuration and we'll return an itemized quote.
Powered by Aquafab Workbench
A facility that watches itself.
Aquafab Workbench monitors water quality and system performance, and alerts your team before small issues become animal-care problems.
Live monitoring
Continuous readings of the parameters that matter for your animals.
Remote alerts
Status alerts when conditions drift or a component needs service.
Scheduled maintenance
Automated routines that keep the system on schedule.
With every system
More than equipment.
Engineering review
Every configuration is checked by an engineer before we quote or build.
Factory-tested
Assembled, leak-tested and run in Cincinnati before it ships.
Documentation
Manuals, calibration records and Aquafab Workbench software.
Lifetime support
Direct access to the engineers who built your system.
FAQ
Life support questions
Can racks be expanded later?
Yes. Racks are modular, so you can start with one and add capacity as your program grows.
Do you make zebrafish specimen holders?
Yes — see the Zebrafish Specimen Cup Holder.
Don't see exactly what you need?
We'll build it.
Most of our systems start as a conversation. Describe your experiment and we'll design around it.