Drop your balls (bio) Pimping a Bio material...Cellpore

[Scottfree]

I saw this product at Dr. Frosters....

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Product/Prod_Display.cfm?pcatid=4169&N=2004+113804


I ended up ordering a cartridge that slips into my Emp 280, (it came broken in half, oops, so I was looking on how I could return it, or if they would send me a new piece) it seems to be an amazing product, and can ehance your biofiltration to enormous heights. I really don't believe it's snakeoil, the product is extremley porous, and logic tells me it would be a great host for beneficial bac. Then I started reading about the product and come to find this company is within 2 miles from where I live (I'll be stopping there tomorrow, post haste, picking their brain, trying to get samples). And No I don't work there, but here is there website.....

http://www.cellpore.com/

Read up ladies and gents, and you're quite welcome.... Time to overstock....

 

[ROSS]

nice seem's like a pad form of BIO MAX..

 

[Scottfree]

nice seem's like a pad form of BIO MAX..

Actually I have biomax as well, it doesn't seem nearly as porous as this product.
Also it never really made sense to me that bio-balls, or anything plastic would be that efficient because they aren't porous.

 

[slammer]

This may be a silly question but what about common old household sponges? The yellow one. They are extremely porous and if you cut them on the bias it seems to me it would make a great bio media. Straighten me out cause it just seems too obvious.

Bo

 

[ROSS]

Actually I have biomax as well, it doesn't seem nearly as porous as this product.
Also it never really made sense to me that bio-balls, or anything plastic would be that efficient because they aren't porous.

I agree plastic is not porous....

 

[Scottfree]

This may be a silly question but what about common old household sponges? The yellow one. They are extremely porous and if you cut them on the bias it seems to me it would make a great bio media. Straighten me out cause it just seems too obvious.

Bo

I think those sponges have some type of sanitizer or are chemically treated....

 

[cougar579]

News alert, cell-pore has been around for years. I don't like it. It is brittle, and overrated. we did some experiments on this a few years back at the fish store I worked at. We were seeing how effective it was breaking down nitrates. Just go buy some lava rock if you want something equivalent.

 

[Scottfree]

Ahh really I wasn't aware, was it in this form? Yes it is brittle that's for damned sure, hence me looking up more info about the product.

 

[TankBuster]

Most sponges will have mold inhibitors in it and that is why you shouldnt use it. Same reason for not buying just any old silicone for aquarium seal.