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  K+ Advanced Filter Media 50 Litre

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  K+ Advanced Filter Media 50 Litre

  Save £25.00

  £89.95 Original price was: £89.95.£64.95Current price is: £64.95.

  
  
  

  

  New advanced filtration media

  Plastic media, for use in biological pond filters – specifically in moving bed bio reactors, was pioneered by Evolution Aqua, some 20 years ago. In recent years, other plastic media have come onto the market, usually with the aim of trying to get more and more surface area. However, one drawback to using plastic media has always been the time it takes to establish a stable biofilm – essential for good filtration.

  After many years of research, Evolution Aqua have now developed a new media that not only gives class leading surface area, but also overcomes the problem of long maturation times.

  Class leading surface area

  K+Mediais designed and manufactured in the UK by Evolution Aqua. This advanced media, with its innovative design, and class leading surface area provides enhanced biological and mechanical filtration.

   As Evolution Aqua extrude K+Media, Minerals and Enzymes are added to the raw material. The result of this process, unique to Evolution Aqua, is a filtration media that not only outperforms most of its competitors due to its large protected surface area, but also answers the problem of how to speed up the time taken to mature your filter.

  

  Minerals added for faster filter maturation 

  During the extrusion process, Evolution Aqua add a range of minerals, along with magnesium, calcium, enzymes and salt to the raw material that is used to manufacture K+Media. The result means that K+Media will mature much faster than many other types of media.

  – The addition of these minerals creates a rough surface on the media. This textured surface has a microscopic honeycomb of peaks and craters that allow waste particles to collect, and nitrifying bacteria to form.

  – The minerals act as a food source for the bacteria, helping the bacteria to develop and multiply at a faster rate, further improving maturation times.

  – Calcium alone has proven advantages for developing and maintaining effective bio-films.

  – The enzymes that are added also help to make the media “sticky” so waste particles can adhere to media easier.

  – Salt is added during the extrusion process, which is dissolved during the cooling process, leaving a rough surface on which bio-film can easily adhere.

  Increased surface area 

  With a new shape and profile, K+Media has also been designed to have an increased and class leading surface area, meaning an overall surface area of 1,350m² per m³. More importantly for biological filtration, the protected surface area of K+Media is 1,025m² per m³.  This allows a stable bio-film to form and remain intact when used in moving bed biological filtration, as in the new Nexus+.

  

  

  

  Stable bio-film development

  The shape of K+Media optimises the amount of “quiet zones” within the media where a stable bio-film can develop. Whilst K+Media keeps the integral profile of K1 Media at its core, there is an extra layer of cells and fins around the outside of each piece that enable microscopic organisms such as Rotifers and Vorticella to thrive. This is an additional benefit as competitor media do not have such “quiet zones” that would allow these higher lifeforms of filter feeders to develop. The bacteria and organisms that form within the bio-film ensure the media delivers optimum levels of biological filtration in the moving bed, which has been proven filtration technology for many years in the fishkeeping hobby.

  Use with PURE Pond products 

  Evolution Aqua also recommend using K+Media in combination with the PURE Pond and PURE+ Filter Start Gel to boost bacteria levels which in turn will stick to the media and speed up the maturation process even more.

  Specifications

  Diameter = 10.2mm

  Total surface area = 1,350m² per m³

  Protected surface area = 1,025m² per m³

  Length = 8mm

   

  ■ Available in bags of 25 litres and 50 litres

  ■ Floating version is coloured white

  ■ Sinking version is coloured black

   

  

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  Oyster Shell in Net Bag 5kg

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  Oyster Shell in Net Bag 5kg

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  Oyster Shell in Net Bag 5kg

  These large Pacific oyster shell halves are commonly used by Koi keepers
  in Japan and worldwide for buffering and stabalising the PH.

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  K1 Filter Media 3lt

  £13.95

  K1 Filter Media 3lt

  £13.95

  

  

  Award winning filtration media

  Evolution Aqua revolutionised the Koi market when it brought ground breaking moving bed filtration technology to a koi filter, with Nexus.

  • 500m2 per m3 Protected Surface Area

  • Dramatically increases the efficiency of filter systems

  • Provides a large surface area for bacteria to colonise

  • Provides mechanical and biological filtration

  • Use in static and moving bed filter systems

  

  Specifications

  

  K1 Moving Bed Technology

  Moving bed media has many advangates over traditional static bed filters including a huge surface area which is always exposed to maximum oxygen and food for the bacteria, self cleaning media as it tumbles, and the world famous protected surface area, enabling bacteria and higher organisms to dwell in their preferred location inside the media, exposed to oxygen and food, but safe from harmful cleaning practices.

  Over the last twenty years there has been a wholesale shift over to moving bed technology in pond filters, and Evolution Aqua were the pioneers. No one has much experience or has carried out as much research and development into this important area of biological filtration as Evolution Aqua. Nexus and Eazy Pod use K1 and K1 Micro filter media exclusively, and the filters and filter media are all designed and manufactured in the UK.

  The advantages of K1 filter media

  

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  KANO SHOWER MEDIA

  £39.95

  KANO SHOWER MEDIA

  £39.95

  KANO SHOWER MEDIA

  Ideal for all Shower type filters, Kano Shower Media will help maintain excellent water quality and also maintain the eco balance in your pond.

  Made from the finest quartz and minerals, far infrared is heated up to 1800C to break up the internal bonds and create an incredibly porous surface, which encourages good bacteria to colonise in the huge protected surface area. The Kano Media emits FAR infrared rays that break the bonds of the neighbouring water molecules thereby allowing more oxygen to be dissolved in the water. Larger organic solids are dissolved quicker than conventional media. Kano Shower Media does not degrade and is pH neutral.

  Kano Shower Media also provides a natural living environment for the cultivation of nitrifying bacteria, and also provides the necessary organic minerals for fish growth.

  Kano Shower Media works as a ‘cleaner’ in the water ecosystem. It can improve the water quality efficiently and has
  outstanding characteristics in relation to water flow, water pH improvement, oxygen content stabilization etc. All these can
  successfully restore the water to its original crystal clear state. It also provides a favourable source for beneficial bacteria and for the reproductive growth of the aerobic bacteria and anaerobic bacteria, which are the two main necessary bacteria for the water quality
  purification of aquaculture.

  A high flow is recommended for maximum performance.

  Available in 5kg boxes
  Length 150mm
  Thickness 40mm
  50 pieces per carton

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