CHATTANOOGA, TN – This week on Tech Byte we were invited to look at the Tech behind the life support systems (LSS) at the Tennessee Aquarium. It’s an interesting view that not everyone gets to see and it’s way more complex than you might think.

Maintenance Supervisor Les Lawrence tells us how they manage to keep all the creatures alive in a massive facility. “Each one is unique in its own way, determining which species of fish is in there. Temperature of the water. Based on what part of the world that fish is from. It’s either from Soddy Lake or from Saudi Arabia,” says Lawrence. “Freshwater, saltwater, different types of salinity in the water. You know, the obviously the Nile or the Amazon is going to be different than the Tennessee River compared to, you know, obviously, the Pacific Oce

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