How to make DIY bio media for an aquarium filter at home?
Building DIY bio media is easy,
& cheap. The only requirement is to use a few feet of remaining or used PVC
pipe as well as remaining vinyl tube that you no longer need. Cut the pipe into
little rings that look very similar to ceramic rings. Then put your media into
the biological chamber of your aquarium filter. Lastly you can use caps of the plastic bottles & make a hole in their centres. All plastics that have been used in this project have decent surface area which will allow heaps of beneficial bacteria to populate on its surface.
Surface area is very important
for the biological media. It is recommended to offer the best surface area for
the growth of useful bacteria. An internal filter is located inside the
aquarium so if you want to make a submersible filter, then it is recommended to
make small bio media for the filter that offers necessary filtration but has a
small volume so it takes less space inside your submersible filter. If bio
media has lots of surface area, then it will allow useful bacteria to colonize
on its surface, thus breaking down heaps of ammonia into nitrites & further
into nitrates due to nitrifying bacteria. Nitrates are not as dangerous as
nitrites, & nitrites are comparatively less dangerous than ammonia so fish
can live in the water that contains nitrates. However, if there are heaps of
nitrates in the water, then it is still dangerous for the fish so it is recommended
to change up to 30 percent water every week to keep the level of nitrates under
control.
In video below, you can watch how
to make DIY bio media that looks similar to ceramic rings:
The materials that have been chosen
for making bio media in this video tutorial offers less surface area than
ceramic rings & other types of bio media. The bio media that have been created
allows water to flow over the media as well as flow through the media due to a
hole inside the media. DIY bio media looks very similar to ceramic rings but the
pro of this bio media over ceramic rings is that it is cheap & can be made
from leftover or used pipes / vinyl tubes or you can use caps of used plastic bottles. Bio media created in this project is
an easy demonstration of how to build bio media without wasting your money.
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