Hey everyone, Devon here from American Aquarium.
Hope your doing well.
Welcome to the new season.
Want to talk about something that is not a
new thing in the hobby, but seems to be something
most people are not aware of that's it's even
an option in the hobby.
If we're talking about some of the best filtration
for our freshwater and saltwater tanks, hands
down it's going to be the Fluidize Sand FIlter.
Why do I say this?
A sand filter is going to take a reaction
camber, plumb water in down the down tube,
back into the base and turn sand that is contentedly
bounce off its self.
Off the other sand particles.
There's so much surface area within a sand
filter because of how much sand surface, each
gain allows bacteria to form to it and then
it's contentedly cleaning itself because the
sand is turning bouncing each other.
Wearing off the old bacteria.
Gather new bacteria and creating some of the
best filtration for a biological filter for
any aquarium.
These filters are meant for nitrification
of your nitrogen cycle.
So it's going to be taking care of ammonia
and nitrites, but also one of the benefits
of the taller model sand reactor is that,
in the top part of the camber.
Since there's so much distance, there's actually
denitrification that happens.
So, there some nitrate control as denitrification.
Which is really awesome.
These filters, by far will out compete any
canister filter that's on the market.
I would even say, for most applications it's
better than an sump.
Or even paired with a sump.
That makes it even better.
Running them off a stand along pump is another
great option.
These things are meant to be more of a hang
on the back.
So, they sit right on the edge of the aquarium.
If you have a pump in the aquarium, with say
some pre-filtration sponge.
Man, you've got a really good filter.
We can take a look.
The sand filter that we at least back.
We promote here in the hobby.
It's three different sizes for different sizes
aquariums.
Amount of filtration.
There's a small medium, large.
Best is to go with as large as you can, but
you can run a whole entire aquarium system
off just one of these filters.
It's best to have redundancy, but man, you
could filter a whole tank off just a sand
filter.
One added benefits of a reaction camber such
as these is now we can control other things
such as Nitrate and phosphate by just adding
something NPX bioplastics.
This is a polymer.
Man is it effective.
One of the most effective , say four or five
days.
You can take a high nitrate and bring it down
really low really quick.
Very effective way to handle nitrates.
Prefect for freshwater.
Even better for saltwater.
Another thing that's cool.
Some people use these filters for other media.
While their not designed to hold other media
you could say use it a temporary solution.
I've known some people put Bio-Home in here.
It's not the proper way to use the reactor,
but it can be done.
I've also seen people use something like Carbon,
say if there's an overdose issue.
A medication issue.
You've got to remove medicine.
You can take your carbon within your sand
reactor and all the sudden, you've just got
a really good carbon to remove any toxins.
Very very effectively.
Very very fast.
So, this is an option that American Aquarium
Products promotes within the hobby, not because
we're like we like this line of filters, we
think their good, but because we've had extensive
use of sand filters over times, over decades
of time in the industry and we found that
by far you're going to get the most filtration
with the sand filter.
We've even used sand filters to filter whole
fish rooms.
Filtration that nothing can beat.
So, highly highly recommend taking a look
and adding a sand filter into your set up
if your not already.
Another awesome thing too for people considering
high Co2 dosing.
This is a filter system that does not wear
away Co2.
There's really no surface tension being broken.
The water is being plumbed in and exited very
genially.
So, for someone trying to concentrate keeping
Co2 in the aquarium.
This is a real good option.
So, another really cool thing that these filters
offer.
You could put different types of sand in there.
So, we can put a silica inert sand in there
for freshwater which is then really just going
to help with bacteria growth.
But for a saltwater tank or say maybe a cichlid
tank where we know we need Calcium in there
as well.
We can use an Oolitic sand.
So, this action of the sand bouncing off each
other is wearing away and is actually buffering
your calcium.
It's not really adding too, but it's not taking
away.
It's help maintain that calcium.
That's very good benefit if you have the need
for added calcium of the tank.
So, take a look at the sand filter if you
haven't yet.
If you haven't realized this is an option
for filtration, hello here it is.
It's some of the best that's out there.
Highly recommended.
Maybe take a small canister filter and use
a medium size reactor and all the sudden you;ll
have better filtration then the largest FX6.
Or, just use it a hand on the back filter
with a regular water pump in the aquarium
and you can still outperform many canister
filters.
So, I just want to bring this to your attention.
Had a lot of questions about what is a sand
filter, but here it is guys.
It's common.
It's been common for a long time.
So, we've had experience with other brands
in the industry, but we go ahead and back
the TMC brand it is more of a professional
quality build.
There is some known published issues with
the sand filter, but let me tell you based
of 100s of applications and working with many
customers who have purchased this.
If you set it up correctly and make sure you
slowly let water into the system, most of
the time you're not going to have an issue.
The known published issues about a sand filter.
But hey once you figure it out, you have the
best filter period hands down for any type
of water.
I'll so you the reaction camber here really
quick.
You have a large camber with a base.
You have the down spout tube, that's going
to be your intake.
Water is going to be plumbed down through
the intake and come out and in here.
I'm going to give this a second for my camera
to adjust.
You'll see a spiral pattern with wholes that
plumbs water and spirals it through a rock
media or a ceramic media into sand then keeps
the sand fluidizing with this real long motion
of turning the water from top to bottom up
and down fluidizing your sand.
Hope that was something exciting for you guys
to take a look at.
A lot of questions, a lot of people don't
know about them so that's why I figured I
would bring it to your attention.
If you have an questions, of course ask and
take a look at the sand filters.
Take a look how we recommend them.
Take a look at the user applications that
we have all on our website.
Take a look at our extra articles that we
link too that show how others are using these
in the hobby and industry.
And of course, like always.
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We really appreciate your support to get this
type of information out to the hobby and we
really appreciate you look to us a resource
to be able to help you with your aquatics
needs.
Alright, I'll talk to you next time.
