What is an Anoxic Filtration
System?
Photos above: New Anoxic Filter and pond ready to be tested in Italy.
The photo above shows plants in an Anoxic Filtration System and the bottom photo shows the same plants that are grown the way most hobbyist are told how to grow them. Big difference in plant proliferation ,color and size.
Anoxic Filtration System: Is a
biological filtration system using Biocenosis Clarification Baskets to attract
positive ions out of the water body. Using a combination of natural process
clays, like that of Kitty/cat litter and tropical Laterite, a residual product
of rock decay, act and react to convection, magnetic pull and/or diffusion as a
biochemical reaction to attract cantons and anions out of the water column.
Because of their crystalline structural state, the negative charged clay read
in mV, (electrovalence) attracts positive ions like ammonium and removes it out
of the bulk water.
This magnetic pull will them aid in
molecular diffusion, using Facultative anaerobic hydrotropic bacteria,
therefore creating under anoxic condition Dissimulative Denitrification and
will turn Nitrates (NO3) into Dinitrogen Gas (N2).Thus making it safe for
aquatic life to exist in ponds.
Facultative bacteria - can be found
even at the top of the baskets and along the outer sides, since aerobic
respiration is beneficial energetically speaking. There are also other bacteria
that reside in the baskets, too. Microaerophiles bacteria - will be found
throughout the basket but not at the outer edges. They require oxygen, but only
at lower concentrations like that of anoxic conditions. So they stay away from
the higher oxygenated outer edges because of that reason. Then there’s also an
Aerotoerant bacterium - in the baskets, that can be found everywhere because
oxygen does not affect them in the least nor does the deficiency (low
concentrations but not completely void oxygen) of such. However, obligated
aerobic bacteria - will mostly gather on the outer edges of the baskets within
mm, in order to absorb the maximum amount of oxygen.
Most hobbyist love to make their filters look like a Veggie filter, but without all the maintenance of an inefficient Veggie filter and upkeep. Anoxic Filter outperform Veggie and Bog filters, because Anoxic Filters make better use of the substrate by not going anaerobic ever! Anaerobic substrates or clogged filter medium filter pads make ammonia not dinitrogen gas like some think. That ammonia must go back into solution and become another byproduct that the bacteria now must take care of through the nitrogen cycle. Only Anoxic filters make Dinitrogen Gas, are more beneficial to plant life and aquatic life, too.
However, the photo above shows an Anoxic Filter void of plant life altogether because it's hidden in a garage.
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