Open Source Hydroponic with smart aquarium

This project was living for long time in my head, then I made some part of it, and tested it for whole summer.
It consists of aquarium where I monitor temperature,water level, control lights, and pumps, then there are 2 vertical gardens, one which you can see in photos is hydroponics, second is filled with soil and I can controll irrigation by small pump.

Vertical tower is built from 50mm PVC tubes used for house waste. I printed ends, which I secured and sealed by silicone, then mounted it to 2 wooden boards. There are holes of 35mm drilled with big crown drill, where baskets fits. I originally ordered baskets for hydropony from aliexpress, problem was that as the tube is round, there was so much space between tube and basket. I had to design my most complicated 3D model so far, the basket itself. there are 2 files, one is with generated tree supports which works nice with this type of object.

As grow material I used small cubes of mineral wool found at IKEA for few euros fo