Designing the Ultimate Filtration System

[X24]

The general tecnique is the mixing of various sands of known particle size that are fused together with glass at a temprature that sinters ( roasts to join the particles rather than melts the glass) which allows us to achieve a product that is always of a consistant porosity, if viewed under magnification, a good magnyfying glass is sufficient, Biohome is like a pile of snowballs each particle having its own surface area it is unlike other sinterd glass products which look like a ceramic sponge, Its the same product we sell to everyone and there is a large degree of finding how it works best for you in a paticular set up.All our tests,surface area,porosity,chemical analasys etc were carried out by the British Ceramic Research Association who are a recognised body.If anyone wants a sample piece to look at just send a address....

I'm going to pick up some sintered glass or ceramic bio-media soon, i may see if i can get some samples of a couple different products (Matrix, hydor, DrsFostersmith ceramic and glass, efhisubstrat, biohome) and see which one i like best. Or maybe i'll get a liter of all of them and run some simple tests to see which one works best for me.

 

[AW7020]

I'm going to pick up some sintered glass or ceramic bio-media soon, i may see if i can get some samples of a couple different products (Matrix, hydor, DrsFostersmith ceramic and glass, efhisubstrat, biohome) and see which one i like best. Or maybe i'll get a liter of all of them and run some simple tests to see which one works best for me.

Do ASAP as i am almost finishing an 11 ton indoor pond and definately am very interested in your findings. Best of Luck X24

 

[CHOMPERS]

I'm going to try some if I can find some (tricky part right now). I'll post a review when I do.

 

[AW7020]

I'm going to try some if I can find some (tricky part right now). I'll post a review when I do.

Great Keep the results/review coming.

 

[X24]

Do ASAP as i am almost finishing an 11 ton indoor pond and definately am very interested in your findings. Best of Luck X24

Sorry buy it would be quite a while before i could get my little experiment finished. I'd have to order almost all of it online and get it shipped (a good week) Run them all in the same tank for a couple of weeks to be sure they all have the same amount of time to grow bacteria, then run them all on the same filtration on seperate tanks that would get the same exact amount of food each day (not using fish as they might skew the results) and test ammonia, nitrite and nitrate every day.....

Wow idk if I'm going to go through with that, its all a lot of work and would probably take a couple months to get any solid data.....Ya, my advice is to just go with w/e is cheapest then

 

[johnptc]

Sorry buy it would be quite a while before i could get my little experiment finished. I'd have to order almost all of it online and get it shipped (a good week) Run them all in the same tank for a couple of weeks to be sure they all have the same amount of time to grow bacteria, then run them all on the same filtration on seperate tanks that would get the same exact amount of food each day (not using fish as they might skew the results) and test ammonia, nitrite and nitrate every day.....

Wow idk if I'm going to go through with that, its all a lot of work and would probably take a couple months to get any solid data.....Ya, my advice is to just go with w/e is cheapest then

i would run them all for 60 days.........then begin testing by running them all on same tank and sample the filter output to measure the reduction in nitrate.

i would take it for granted that the ammonia and nitrite will be zero.

just my 2 cents......... i would probably feed the tank ammonium chloride or a straight nitrate compound

 

[X24]

i would run them all for 60 days.........then begin testing by running them all on same tank and sample the filter output to measure the reduction in nitrate.

i would take it for granted that the ammonia and nitrite will be zero.

just my 2 cents......... i would probably feed the tank ammonium chloride or a straight nitrate compound

Thats a good test if you want to just see the nitrate lowering abilities, i was talking about as an overall bio-material, and running like it would on a normal tank. If you fed it just nitrate compound you would leave out the room on the media that is needed for more important bacteria that consume ammonia and nitrite.

But as i've stated just a couple posts up i no longer think i'll be doing this just because of the time and expense that will go into it for a cause that i'm not overly concerened about anymore. I think i'll just buy the cheapest sintered glass and call it a day.

 

[johnptc]

Thats a good test if you want to just see the nitrate lowering abilities, i was talking about as an overall bio-material, and running like it would on a normal tank. If you fed it just nitrate compound you would leave out the room on the media that is needed for more important bacteria that consume ammonia and nitrite.

But as i've stated just a couple posts up i no longer think i'll be doing this just because of the time and expense that will go into it for a cause that i'm not overly concerned about anymore. I think i'll just buy the cheapest sintered glass and call it a day.

understood..... any decent media will remove ammonia and nitrites..... it is the nitrates that will separate the real media from the wannabes

 

[duke33]

Sometimes we read to much into something.

 

[X24]

understood..... any decent media will remove ammonia and nitrites..... it is the nitrates that will separate the real media from the wannabes

Yes i suppose thats the point of most of this conversation anyway. I guess i would like to see if biohome would actually do this any bettered then cheap sintered glass or even a sand bed.