Ceramic Rings Vs Live Rock

Ceramic rings can hold a second beneficial bacteria.

Ceramic rings vs live rock.

Ceramic rings are changing the game. In this video we teach you how to do it yourself diy and make your very own live rock for your reef. Now you have even more choices and a wider variety to choose from. Wc is a chemical compound specifically a carbide containing equal parts of tungsten and carbon atoms.

You won t have to worry about it breaking or scratching. You won t find this bacteria in plastic or foam filter media. Lava rock is relatively inert and shouldn t mess with your chemistry. This week we are answering mack jones question from week 13.

Denitrifying bacteria live deep inside rock ceramic and other porous materials where oxygen cannot reach them. Reef aquarists will appreciate the biological nitrate reducing properties that the media promotes. Everyone was used to shopping for the traditional metal choices. The ceramic is inert and won t change ph or release anything into the aquarium water.

Bio balls and ceramic rings vs live rock in the sump. Many have used lava rock over the years and many still swear by it. Unlike closed pore biomedia water can freely flow through the porous ceramic. Cured live rock crumbles.

The best way to use marinepure would be in a canister filter or contact chamber. Generally i use live rock pieces about 3 4 cm in diameters. Yes i do agree that they do catch a lot of junk because stirring or moving them stir up a lot of green water. When marine pure ceramic biomedia plates are substrated in the sump without water flowing through them wouldn t they just become.

This is a resilient material that is perfect for everything you do in your life. These bacteria eat nitrates and will only survive where there is no oxygen present. Tungsten carbide chemical formula. In its most basic form tungsten carbide is a fine gray powder but it can be pressed and formed into shapes through a process called sintering for use in industrial machinery cutting tools abrasives armor piercing shells and jewellery.

The only caveat i would add make sure it s in a high flow area kind of redundant if you re going to crush and put in the filter but if you were to just toss a lump of it in your tank without flow it.