Best Floating Beads
Suggestion on where to get the best floating beads ?
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Best Floating Beads
The "Latest and Greatest" in the bead type media is something called
Kaldnes. To get the maximum out of it, you need to install hefty airstones, manifolds, or the type of air hose used in sewage treatment plants to "roil" the media with air. It becomes self-stripping, self-renewing, and adds a lot of oxygen to the water. It's designed to be used in open containers, not pressurized filters. Lee "Drew Cutter" wrote in message ... Suggestion on where to get the best floating beads ? |
Best Floating Beads
The beads used by the bead filter manufacturers is a low density (around .95
specific gravity) polyethylene bead. Find someone making milk bottles, of something similar and see if you can buy the beads that they use in their manufacturing process. When I got my bubblebead filter it came with a bag of beads from Dupont or Dow. I forget. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html "Drew Cutter" wrote in message ... Suggestion on where to get the best floating beads ? |
Best Floating Beads
we have a plastic factory that has an outlet type store. According to
the direction on the bead filter , you need beads that are not totally smooth . The example was to put them into a cement mixer with sands. I did find mail order out west that sell beads. I currently trying find out whether kaldnes beads would be ideal for what i want to do. Cleaning is a big question I'm still trying figure out. Power wash , aeration . |
Best Floating Beads
we have a plastic factory that has an outlet type store. According to
the direction on the bead filter , you need beads that are not totally smooth . The example was to put them into a cement mixer with sands. I did find mail order out west that sell beads. I currently trying find out whether kaldnes beads would be ideal for what i want to do. Cleaning is a big question I'm still trying figure out. Power wash , aeration . |
Best Floating Beads
we have a plastic factory that has an outlet type store. According to
the direction on the bead filter , you need beads that are not totally smooth . The example was to put them into a cement mixer with sands. I did find mail order out west that sell beads. I currently trying find out whether kaldnes beads would be ideal for what i want to do. Cleaning is a big question I'm still trying figure out. Power wash , aeration . |
Best Floating Beads
Drew Cutter wrote:
we have a plastic factory that has an outlet type store. According to the direction on the bead filter , you need beads that are not totally smooth . The example was to put them into a cement mixer with sands. I did find mail order out west that sell beads. I currently trying find out whether kaldnes beads would be ideal for what i want to do. Cleaning is a big question I'm still trying figure out. Power wash , aeration . http://www.keirinponds.com/images/su...mer_fall03.pdf Allentown. Pa Sells Kaldness media #423160 $1.50/liter usually in 50 liter bags A sample of the bio media can be seen at http://ourkoipond.com/Temppond.htm it's the small white ones. They use them in their tank system. It is also used in the nexus filtersystems |
Best Floating Beads
Drew Cutter wrote:
we have a plastic factory that has an outlet type store. According to the direction on the bead filter , you need beads that are not totally smooth . The example was to put them into a cement mixer with sands. I did find mail order out west that sell beads. I currently trying find out whether kaldnes beads would be ideal for what i want to do. Cleaning is a big question I'm still trying figure out. Power wash , aeration . http://www.keirinponds.com/images/su...mer_fall03.pdf Allentown. Pa Sells Kaldness media #423160 $1.50/liter usually in 50 liter bags A sample of the bio media can be seen at http://ourkoipond.com/Temppond.htm it's the small white ones. They use them in their tank system. It is also used in the nexus filtersystems |
Best Floating Beads
Drew Cutter wrote:
we have a plastic factory that has an outlet type store. According to the direction on the bead filter , you need beads that are not totally smooth . The example was to put them into a cement mixer with sands. I did find mail order out west that sell beads. I currently trying find out whether kaldnes beads would be ideal for what i want to do. Cleaning is a big question I'm still trying figure out. Power wash , aeration . http://www.keirinponds.com/images/su...mer_fall03.pdf Allentown. Pa Sells Kaldness media #423160 $1.50/liter usually in 50 liter bags A sample of the bio media can be seen at http://ourkoipond.com/Temppond.htm it's the small white ones. They use them in their tank system. It is also used in the nexus filtersystems |
Best Floating Beads
Drew Cutter wrote:
we have a plastic factory that has an outlet type store. According to the direction on the bead filter , you need beads that are not totally smooth . The example was to put them into a cement mixer with sands. I did find mail order out west that sell beads. I currently trying find out whether kaldnes beads would be ideal for what i want to do. Cleaning is a big question I'm still trying figure out. Power wash , aeration . http://www.keirinponds.com/images/su...mer_fall03.pdf Allentown. Pa Sells Kaldness media #423160 $1.50/liter usually in 50 liter bags A sample of the bio media can be seen at http://ourkoipond.com/Temppond.htm it's the small white ones. They use them in their tank system. It is also used in the nexus filtersystems |
Best Floating Beads
Great . Thanks . Love to know how you built your vortex , veggie filter.
Can't wait to see you web page once its done. How much would a 55 gal. drum take ? I got two 55 gal. drums waiting to turn into a filtration system. |
Best Floating Beads
Great . Thanks . Love to know how you built your vortex , veggie filter.
Can't wait to see you web page once its done. How much would a 55 gal. drum take ? I got two 55 gal. drums waiting to turn into a filtration system. |
Best Floating Beads
Great . Thanks . Love to know how you built your vortex , veggie filter.
Can't wait to see you web page once its done. How much would a 55 gal. drum take ? I got two 55 gal. drums waiting to turn into a filtration system. |
Best Floating Beads
Great . Thanks . Love to know how you built your vortex , veggie filter.
Can't wait to see you web page once its done. How much would a 55 gal. drum take ? I got two 55 gal. drums waiting to turn into a filtration system. |
Best Floating Beads
Great . Thanks . Love to know how you built your vortex , veggie filter.
Can't wait to see you web page once its done. How much would a 55 gal. drum take ? I got two 55 gal. drums waiting to turn into a filtration system. |
Best Floating Beads
Great . Thanks . Love to know how you built your vortex , veggie filter.
Can't wait to see you web page once its done. How much would a 55 gal. drum take ? I got two 55 gal. drums waiting to turn into a filtration system. |
Best Floating Beads
Great . Thanks . Love to know how you built your vortex , veggie filter.
Can't wait to see you web page once its done. How much would a 55 gal. drum take ? I got two 55 gal. drums waiting to turn into a filtration system. |
Best Floating Beads
Great . Thanks . Love to know how you built your vortex , veggie filter.
Can't wait to see you web page once its done. How much would a 55 gal. drum take ? I got two 55 gal. drums waiting to turn into a filtration system. |
Best Floating Beads
Great . Thanks . Love to know how you built your vortex , veggie filter.
Can't wait to see you web page once its done. How much would a 55 gal. drum take ? I got two 55 gal. drums waiting to turn into a filtration system. |
Best Floating Beads
Great . Thanks . Love to know how you built your vortex , veggie filter.
Can't wait to see you web page once its done. How much would a 55 gal. drum take ? I got two 55 gal. drums waiting to turn into a filtration system. |
Best Floating Beads
Great . Thanks . Love to know how you built your vortex , veggie filter.
Can't wait to see you web page once its done. How much would a 55 gal. drum take ? I got two 55 gal. drums waiting to turn into a filtration system. |
Best Floating Beads
Roughening the beads might be good, but the beads that came with my bead
filters were not roughened and they work fine in both bead filters. The poly beads are for a pressurized system, with the water flowing up through the beads and into a slotted pipe for discharge back to the pond. The kaldness is a floating filter media that is more like hollow tubes that are tossed around in an open filter by high air flow. The discharge from a kaldness filter is not from the top. The kaldness is the best material for converting ammonia to nitrites, and nitrites to nitrates, but beads will perform that function and act as a mechanical filter for fines. One of the ponds I visited recently uses the kaldness for the biological filtration and then sends it through a bead filter to polish the water by removing the fine suspended material. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html "Drew Cutter" wrote in message ... we have a plastic factory that has an outlet type store. According to the direction on the bead filter , you need beads that are not totally smooth . The example was to put them into a cement mixer with sands. I did find mail order out west that sell beads. I currently trying find out whether kaldnes beads would be ideal for what i want to do. Cleaning is a big question I'm still trying figure out. Power wash , aeration . |
Best Floating Beads
Roughening the beads might be good, but the beads that came with my bead
filters were not roughened and they work fine in both bead filters. The poly beads are for a pressurized system, with the water flowing up through the beads and into a slotted pipe for discharge back to the pond. The kaldness is a floating filter media that is more like hollow tubes that are tossed around in an open filter by high air flow. The discharge from a kaldness filter is not from the top. The kaldness is the best material for converting ammonia to nitrites, and nitrites to nitrates, but beads will perform that function and act as a mechanical filter for fines. One of the ponds I visited recently uses the kaldness for the biological filtration and then sends it through a bead filter to polish the water by removing the fine suspended material. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html "Drew Cutter" wrote in message ... we have a plastic factory that has an outlet type store. According to the direction on the bead filter , you need beads that are not totally smooth . The example was to put them into a cement mixer with sands. I did find mail order out west that sell beads. I currently trying find out whether kaldnes beads would be ideal for what i want to do. Cleaning is a big question I'm still trying figure out. Power wash , aeration . |
Best Floating Beads
Roughening the beads might be good, but the beads that came with my bead
filters were not roughened and they work fine in both bead filters. The poly beads are for a pressurized system, with the water flowing up through the beads and into a slotted pipe for discharge back to the pond. The kaldness is a floating filter media that is more like hollow tubes that are tossed around in an open filter by high air flow. The discharge from a kaldness filter is not from the top. The kaldness is the best material for converting ammonia to nitrites, and nitrites to nitrates, but beads will perform that function and act as a mechanical filter for fines. One of the ponds I visited recently uses the kaldness for the biological filtration and then sends it through a bead filter to polish the water by removing the fine suspended material. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html "Drew Cutter" wrote in message ... we have a plastic factory that has an outlet type store. According to the direction on the bead filter , you need beads that are not totally smooth . The example was to put them into a cement mixer with sands. I did find mail order out west that sell beads. I currently trying find out whether kaldnes beads would be ideal for what i want to do. Cleaning is a big question I'm still trying figure out. Power wash , aeration . |
Best Floating Beads
Roughening the beads might be good, but the beads that came with my bead
filters were not roughened and they work fine in both bead filters. The poly beads are for a pressurized system, with the water flowing up through the beads and into a slotted pipe for discharge back to the pond. The kaldness is a floating filter media that is more like hollow tubes that are tossed around in an open filter by high air flow. The discharge from a kaldness filter is not from the top. The kaldness is the best material for converting ammonia to nitrites, and nitrites to nitrates, but beads will perform that function and act as a mechanical filter for fines. One of the ponds I visited recently uses the kaldness for the biological filtration and then sends it through a bead filter to polish the water by removing the fine suspended material. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html "Drew Cutter" wrote in message ... we have a plastic factory that has an outlet type store. According to the direction on the bead filter , you need beads that are not totally smooth . The example was to put them into a cement mixer with sands. I did find mail order out west that sell beads. I currently trying find out whether kaldnes beads would be ideal for what i want to do. Cleaning is a big question I'm still trying figure out. Power wash , aeration . |
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