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Subject Author Date Cell Pore users, feedback please. Marksfish 10-07-2005  Re: Cell Pore users, feedback please. Frank 10-08-2005  Re: Cell Pore users, feedback please. Marksfish 10-09-2005  Re: Cell Pore users, feedback please. Frank 10-10-2005  Re: Cell Pore users, feedback please. Marksfish 10-10-2005  Re: Cell Pore users, feedback please. Frank 10-10-2005  Re: Cell Pore users, feedback please. Marksfish 10-11-2005  Re: Cell Pore users, feedback please. Frank 10-11-2005  Re: Cell Pore users, feedback please. Marksfish 10-11-2005  Re: Cell Pore users, feedback please. Frank 10-13-2005  Re: Cell Pore users, feedback please. Marksfish 10-14-2005
Posted by Marksfish on October 7, 2005, 7:11 am Please log in for more thread options Please excuse the cross post, I am trying to get a cross section response to my query. I purchased a couple of sheets of cell pore when it was first on sale all those years ago, thinking I would use it in my then marine tank. I never used it and it is still in the packaging it arrived in. I am now in the process of planning my new aquarium and am wondering how best to use it. I will have a sump where I will be placing a deep sand bed. My thought was to place the sheets under the sand to act as an extra area for denitrification. Does anyone have experience of using it this way? Thanks Mark www.marksfish.me.uk Posted by Frank on October 8, 2005, 8:44 pm Please log in for more thread options Without a way for the water to flow *through* the cell pore media, there will be no nitrifying bacteria within it.......... Frank Posted by Marksfish on October 9, 2005, 4:57 am Please log in for more thread options > Without a way for the water to flow *through* the cell pore media, > there will be no nitrifying bacteria within it.......... Frank > But surely you could say that about live rock and sintered glass materials? The structures are so dense that mineral rich water will get to the structure where the anaerobic bacteria will be able to survive. Isn't that how the plenum and deep sand bed methods work, or am I missing something? Cheers Mark Posted by Frank on October 10, 2005, 12:36 am Please log in for more thread options The void space within the ceramic pore block is larger than the prefered granular size media (below 0.2mm but above 0.050mm), for a DSB (deep sand bed). The larger void space and SSA (specific surface area) within the block is best suited for aerobic bacteria for decomposition of organic material. In a DSB, nitrAtes are pulled down into the Anaerobic bacteria level, 1.5 to 2" and deeper, by diffusion, where the media's void space SSA should be much smaller than that of the cell pore block - something such as "Miracle Mud" would be a much better media for a DSB area within your sump. ........... Frank Posted by Marksfish on October 10, 2005, 10:41 am Please log in for more thread options Thanks for that Frank, much appreciated. Regards Mark