Aqua Reef Rock provides you with
- Cheaper Aquarium Set up and Maintenance
- Healthy clean water in your fresh water and marine or saltwater aquarium
- Saves the natural coral in our oceans
Find out more about why you should be using Aqua Reef Rock below.
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“HEALTHY
WATER MEANS HEALTHY AND LIVELY FISH!”
USE IT TODAY
Contact Geoff Peters-Newman at
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What
is Aqua Reef Rock?
Aqua
Reef Rock, also referred to as Aqua Bio Rock, is a ceramic product for your freshwater and saltwater or marine aquariums.
It is designed to complement and reduce the amount of
natural live filter reef rock in Aquariums.
What
is live rock?
Live reef rock is harvested from the oceans coral reefs and introduced
into aquariums because:
It is aesthetically pleasing.
The live reef rock recreated the natural habitat of marine
and tropical aquarium fish within an enclosed saltwater or marine aquarium.
And
most important, due to the myriad of animals, animalcules and
bacteria living in and on them live rock facilitates
nitrification and denytrification.
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Where
does Aqua Bio Rock fit in?
It
does not take the place of live reef rock.
It is designed to be used together with a small
percentage of live reef rock.
This
mix is usually 80% Aqua Bio Rock to 20% Live Rock.
It
is designed in such a way that the reef rock readily accepts not
only coralline algae but also bacteria and microbes that
inhabit natural live rock.
In
this manner over a period of time a live rock reef is created
in your aquarium with all its biological advantages.
This is achieved at a fraction of the cost of natural
live rock and importantly will go a long way toward saving the
worlds coral reefs.
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Why
a synthetic product when the natural product is available?
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It
was found that:
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All
live reef rock was to be imported at great cost.
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Live
reef rock adds a huge expense towards setting up a saltwater or marine aquarium.
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There
is a world wide movement towards limiting the removal of
coral reef rock from the ocean (coral reef forms the basis
of the live reef rock industry).
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The
synthetic Aqua Reef Rock (Aqua Bio Rock) product has been proven to be eco-friendly which
is in line with the worldwide trend to move towards more
environmentally accepted products.
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Resulting
from the above it was felt that the time is right for the
introduction of a “synthetic rock” that can
substantially reduce world reliance on live rock, Aqua Bio
Rock is such a rock.
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The
Aqua Reef Rock, unlike other synthetic products, is pH neutral (7), is
highly porous and very light in weight.
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Coraline
algae through the use of chemicals and extra lighting
appears within three months in your saltwater or marine aquarium.
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At
the same time due to its porosity animalcules and bacteria
commence to inhabit the Aqua Bio Rock.
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From
a biological point of view, the Aqua Bio Rock over time
gives the same benefits as natural live rock.
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Aesthetically
it looks the same as live reef rock.
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The
total set up cost of a marine aquarium equipped with sophisticated
biological filters. Such as trickle filters, sand filters, carbon
filters, UV filters and the like.
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One
reduces the risk of bringing possible harmful bacteria into the system
through improperly cured live rock.
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Last
but no means least, Aqua Bio Rock reduces our dependency on a natural
non-renewable source.
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Due
to left over food, ammonia an inorganic compound, which is toxic to
fishes and invertebrates, is formed.
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Marine
livestock passes metabolic waste. This also produces ammonia.The
nitrifying bacteria Nitrosomonas and nitrobacter, which convert
nitrate require an oxygen-rich environment and are therefore also
referred to as aerobic bacteria.
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Another
group of bacteria, termed chemoheterotrophic (feeding on chemicals)
require an oxygen-poor (anaerobic) environment to thrive. They reduce
nitrates firstly to nitrite, then to nitrious oxide and finally to
nitrogen gas which is lost from the system.
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Owing
to their very different environmental needs, thriving colonies of
aerobic and anerobic bacteria are not normally found together.
However, our Aqua Bio Filtration medium: which is currently
available in South Africa, allows both to prosper and function
correctly.
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This
waste is converted biologically from aerobic to anaerobic.
The bacteria that we are interested in are approximately 0.2mm
to accommodate them. Our Aqua Bio Filtration medium has three main
features.
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It
has the largest possible surface area (8000sq/m per 1 liter) for
colorization by nitrifying bacteria.
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It
allows for optimum oxygen exchange and its shape ensures that
distritus is not easily trapped. (non clogging)
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Finally
the porous structure of the Aqua Bio Ceramic Filtration medium allows
for osmotic diffusion of oxygen, carbon dioxide and water molecules.
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The
necessary gasses can penetrate the material, but the floating debris
is rejected.
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Aqua Reef Rock saves you money and preserves the environment,
whilest maintaining the look and health of your freshwater and saltwater or marine aquarium
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