Quote I made over eight years
ago: “Innovation has been the growth engine of this hobby from the very
beginning, on both the aquatic animals and the hardware sides.” I have never
been so egotistical that I can’t learn from even the newest or less experience
to the most über experts of hobbyists. Because of the very wide geographical
area of hobbyists using the Anoxic filtration system innovation drives them to
discover new and/or better ways to make up the Biocenosis baskets in their
countries.
Lets take this guy Ardy for
example that I have been communicating with far sometime now. Ardy lives in
Indonesia and because of his lack of wherewithal’s on his filtration build, he
has become very innovated in implementing an Anoxic filtration system.
Ardy is faced with the same problems, as other Koi keepers in his country are;
like available pond goods that most of us take for granted and we fail to
appreciate how lucky we are.
The next photos are going to show
you how through innovation and research he has come up with some solution to
several problems making up the Biocenosis basket for his pond in his country.
Through the communications of cyberspace he has found products and shown them
to me to see if they would be valid commodities for his filter.
I also want to point out the
misconception that some may have about the Anoxic filtration system. An Anoxic
filtration system is not a filter, it is a clarification system different than
what you’re use to seeing or what is being sold as filtration systems. The thing
you must remember about this system in opposition to other systems is that each
basket can theoretically be said that they are sitting in the filtration system
or a vessel to hold the Biocenosis clarification baskets. That is the process
of passing water through or putting something through the filtration system
itself, not that the baskets themselves are the filtration system. Therefore,
each basket technically can be said to be a biocenosis clarification basket.
The baskets themselves aid in the process of PURIFYING water through a
chemical and metabolic
reaction making our pond water
crystal-clear, clean of biological and chemical pollutants and free of ion
impurities. Because water is not forced through the filter media itself like
all other filtration system do, the baskets then are only a constituent of the
filtration system inner workings but not the filtration system itself.
For those that have troubles
getting Laterite, maybe Ardy has found a good substitute. Innovation has been the growth engine of this hobby!
Instead of cat litter Ardy
has to use Zeolite as a substitute media for the Biocenosis baskets.
This is what JBL’s Aquabasis
looks like up close.
Once again the black
open-cell plant baskets are not that readily available in Indonesia but these
brightly colored ones are. He uses a 3" diameter PVC pipe to make the indentation in the
center of the baskets then fills it with Aquabasis. He then removes the small
piece of PVC pipe and you now have a perfect separation of the two mediums.
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February 02-2005-2013
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