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Pumice Stone Filter Media

(6 customer reviews)

£23.99 – £55.99 inc. VAT

Pumice Stone Filter Media

Pumice stone Filter Media is now being used extensively as an alternative to traditional koi pond filter media in trickle filters and trickle towers .Pumice stone Filter Media is inert and rapidly colonises with beneficial bacteria which help cleanse the pollutants. It is highly porous making it the ideal media for biological filters of all kinds. Efficient biological filtration depends on the media of choice having an adequate specific surface area (SSA), adequate voiding and water retention time. Pumice Stone Filter media has a massive surface area and is therefore ideal in this application. It can be used as a direct replacement to other ceramic based filter media.

Advantages 
  • High surface area and lightweight,
  • very economical and matures quickly
  • Very low maintenance
  • Excellent biological filtration
  • Improved fish stocks due to the extra performance over alternative media
  • Can be used as a stand alone biological filter or as an add on to an existing filter system
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Pumice Stone Filter Media

Pumice stone Filter Media is now being used extensively as an alternative to traditional koi pond filter media in trickle filters and trickle towers .Pumice stone Filter Media is inert and rapidly colonises with beneficial bacteria which help cleanse the pollutants. It is highly porous making it the ideal media for biological filters of all kinds. Efficient biological filtration depends on the media of choice having an adequate specific surface area (SSA), adequate voiding and water retention time. Pumice Stone Filter media has a massive surface area and is therefore ideal in this application. It can be used as a direct replacement to other ceramic based filter media.

Advantages 
  • High surface area and lightweight,
  • very economical and matures quickly
  • Very low maintenance
  • Excellent biological filtration
  • Improved fish stocks due to the extra performance over alternative media
  • Can be used as a stand alone biological filter or as an add on to an existing filter system

6 reviews for Pumice Stone Filter Media

  1. CRAIG (verified owner) –

    Fast delivery and product was perfect

  2. Larry Roberts (verified owner) –

    Good value for money media

  3. Denise Smith (verified owner) –

    As always an excellent service.

  4. Denise S. (verified owner) –

    Have shopped many times. Always found them helpful & would definitely recommend them. Excellent service 👍.

  5. carl a rushbrook (verified owner) –

  6. Robert Johnson (verified owner) –

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