GroTech NP-Minus BioPellets 500ml

Important:
Operating ONLY in a biopelletreactor or fluid bed filter !The highly active NP-Minus BioPellets consist of 100% biodegradable polymers. These dissolve over a period of several months and act as a carbon source for aerobic bacteria and other microorganisms.
The pellets act as a food source for these microorganisms. Together with the nitrate and phosphate- which are mostly existing in abundance in the aquarium water -, thus microbial biomass is located.Description of the exact mode of action of NP-minus BioPellets:
In different in the aquarium running metabolic cycles arise from organic nitrogen and phosphorus compounds, inorganic nitrate and phosphate components. The biochemical processes that lead now using the NP-Minus BioPellets to reduce them need a lot of oxygen. The increased oxygen demand resulting from their metabolism by suitable bacterial strains, that therefore use this carbon of the BioPellets as energy suppliers. It is therefore extended to use the NP-Minus BioPellets in a fluid bed filter or pellet reactor. This firstly ensures the necessary aerobic conditions and also the gradually emerging on the pellets biofilm is abraded by the turbulence in the filter reliably and continuously. Until these processes get under way, so sufficiently large bacterial populations have grown, it takes several weeks. The use of NP-Minus BioPellets can prevent or reduce the unsightly growth of cyanobacteria, because the bacteria living on the BioPellets compete with the “red slime algae”.
There are now two different methods to use or to remove this from the water cycle immobilized nitrate and phosphate. In the first, the fluid bed filter is installed before of the protein skimmer. So by abrasion in the filter the resulting excess biomass is skimmed off by the protein skimmer and thus removes the unwanted nitrate and phosphate successfully from the aquarium circulation.
In tanks without protein skimmer or bio-pellet filter installation after the protein skimmer the resulting organic matter are available as food for aquarium inhabitants and corals.
Furthermore arise additional biofilms of anaerobic bacteria , in a small scale in anaerobic aquarium areas. That remove nitrogen components through its denitrification from the aquarium water. Is the fluid bed filter fed from oxygenated water comeing out of a skimmer, this has the advantage that this therefore always has enough fresh aerated water available.
Independent of the arrangement of the fluid bed filter component is generally important that
the different strains of bacteria settling on the pellets, to receive the absolutely necessary oxygen for its highly efficient degradation of pollutants. In order to provide enough oxygene for the bacteria’s extremely efficient decomposition of pollutants (especially in the night’s darkness) an adequate gas exchange in the aquarium has to be ensured. This can be ensured by means of aeration (e.g.through a skimmer), combined with adequate water movement..For all other aquarium inhabitants it is important, in order to prevent from a dangerous oxygene loss in the aquarium water.
Basically, the operation of the NP-Minus BioPellets is therefore different than that. of denitrification reactors rsp. in vodka method Both use either nutrient sources bound to plastics or just alcohol in order to use nitrate as an oxygen source for bacterial metabolism under anaerobic conditions. Thus nitrate is gradually reduced to atmospheric nitrogen and so can escape from the tank.