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Biological Aquarium Filter

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As I mentioned in Aquarium Filter - The Basics, biological Aquarium filters make use of friendly bacteria to break down fish waste and ammonia to keep the aquarium clean. They are generally devices that provide living space for the beneficial bacteria.

The bottleneck for most biological filters are the amount of oxygen (O2) available within water in the aquarium tank. The bad thing is oxygen is not very soluble in water. As a matter of fact, the amount of oxygen in aquarium water rarely goes up to more than 7 parts per million (ppm). Imagine for every 1 million units of water particles, there are less than 7 units of oxygen. So there are plenty of competetion within the aquarium tank.

So within the biological aquarium filters, the bacteria needs the oxygen to survive. An with such small amount of oxygen, there is nver enough.

If you are under-gravel aquarium filters, canister aquarium filters, sponge aquarium filters, and especially fluidised bed aquarium filters, there will always be a lack of oxygen. You can buy the largest capacity aquarium filter with large surface area housing plenty of bacteria serving all your fish waste, but the water in these aquarium filters just do not have enough oxygen for the bacteria.

All of these types of aquarium filters are greatly limited by the miniscule amount of oxygen in the water that flows through them.

Introducing BIO-Wheels

So that best solution would be a bio wheel aquarium filter, also sometimes called a small wet dry aquarium filters. These aquarium filter are wheels that have half their body spin above in the air and the other half in the aquarium water. So the air in the aquarium filter will always be chocked full of oxygen. Actually, 200,00 ppm in total. That’s 28,000 times more than a regular above mentioned aquariun filter. As the oxygen will always be replenished as the wheel turn, within the biowheel aqurium filter, it will always be full of oxygen. And that’s happy news for your bacteria.

What this translate to is that your bacteria in the aquarium filter will work at full capacity to rapidly breaking down the fish waste. And that’s good news to you.

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