Power House - PRODUCTS - Filtering Media

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Using Power House in a New Aquarium (Effect of Mixing with Existing Aquarium Water and Sand)

Making aquarium water is extremely important when starting up. Once you have your aquarium set up, it will take some time before the environment will be suitable for introducing fish and waterweeds.

The use of beneficial bacteria settled filtering media and existing water/sand is recommended as a way to have beneficial bacteria (nitrifying bacteria) quickly settle within Power House, thereby creating the ideal water quality for your fish and waterweeds as soon as possible.

Using beneficial bacteria settled filtering media

This method consists of soaking Power House in another aquarium that is currently in use to allow beneficial bacteria to settle on it. If you do not have another aquarium in use, you could try asking your neighborhood aquarium shop weather they would help you.

Mixing with existing aquarium water/sand

This method consists of mixing bacteria-containing water and sand from another aquarium with new water and sand. The ratio of the mixture should be anywhere from 1:5 to 1:1 (used-to-new ratio).

The above graphs show test results for the nitrification increase when one liter of Power House is combined with 2% existing sand on the one hand and with 2% existing sand and 10% existing aquarium water on the other.

(Saltwater is artificially made and fresh water is taken from tap water.)

● Test results for both saltwater and freshwater

(1): No mixing method is used.
Nitrification begins around the third week.

(2): Only existing sand is used.
Nitrification begins around the first week.

(3): Both existing sand/aquarium water are used.
Nitrification begins around the third day.

Test results show that nitrification activity begins fastest in number 3 above, followed by number 2, and then number 1.

Note: It is thought that more ammonium and less nitrite were detected in the freshwater starting around the third week because nitrification had been promoted up to that point, lowering water pH, which in turn caused nitrifying bacteria (nitrosomonas) that convert ammonia into nitrous acid to fall outside the suitable range and harm their activity.

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