Poly-Filter: The Product that Talks to You
Taren Point, New South Wales, Australia (PRWEB) July 10, 2013 -- Poly-Filter is an aquarium filter media that removes toxic ammonia, phosphates, harmful organics, heavy metals, residual medication, amongst many other substances that may harm or hinder aquatic lifeforms.
It is hard to ever put a finger on what would be called 'the best' aquarium product, for there are many, and each plays its own roles, with its own strengths and weaknesses in different situations. So perhaps no product can ever be labeled as 'the best', but Poly-Filter comes close. Real close.
Poly-Filter was designed, developed, patented and commercialized by Poly-Bio-Marine in 1976. It was specifically designed for chemical filtration in the aquarium. Its unique properties and strict quality control offered distinct advantages to the amateur fish keeper and professional aquarist alike. The product was invented by a marine biologist, polymer chemist and medical pathologist. Its purpose was to eliminate the need for carbon, exchange resins and gels by offering a better product to filter and purify both fresh and salt water aquariums. A totally new filter media that would also solve many of the problems associated with breeding and maintaining healthy freshwater and marine tropical fish and invertebrates.
Whilst its superior qualities were shown early on in the product's life, it was not until recently that the product truly gained a foothold amongst aquarium hobbyists. To help educate hobbyists of the advantages of Poly-Filter, Paul Talbot of Majestic Aquariums had produced a short video guide to Poly-Filter, detailing and explaining precisely the workings behind the wonder material.
Poly-Filter is a formulation of patented material bonded to a synthetic matrix. By means of a special proprietary process, it is made impervious to salt while being organic-loving to certain materials. It is designed to continuously filter pollutants from the water without removing any desirable trace elements. In addition to its many features, a major benefit is its ability to maintain a nitrogen cycle balance if the biological filter malfunctions. It provides a supplemental means for the removal of ammonia when the biological filter is unable to break down excess ammonia. At that point, the Poly-Filter absorbs the excess ammonia giving time to the biological filter to adjust to the higher ammonia input levels. All of this occurs without adding anything to the aquarium system to aid the filter and without removing any fish or invertebrates from the aquarium water.
What makes the Poly-Filter truly unique is its ability to change color based on the absorption of specific pollutants. It turns blue with a copper salt, light green to aqua with free copper, orange with iron, red with aluminum, yellowish green with ammonia and white to beige to brown to black with the absorption of harmful organics. This is an important feature that allows the aquatic hobbyist to know exactly what is wrong with their aquarium. This allows him or her to effectively monitor and maintain his/her water parameters.
Not many aquatic hobbyists know of this special property though, and tends to throw away their Poly-Filter during replacement periods before checking what is wrong, and in turn never actually fix the problem at the source. Hopefully through this article, this property of Poly-Filter would be more well known, and aquatic hobbyists, now having the knowledge of what's going wrong, can even better manage their tanks, and appreciate this unique product even more.
Paul Talbot, Majestic Aquariums, http://www.majesticaquariums.com.au/talkingfish.aspx, +61405788888, [email protected]
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