Bacteria House

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Bacteria House

The Bacteria house is a ceramic that has been heat treated at 1300°c for 60hrs. This tremendous amount of heat causes the ceramic to break its internal bonds thereby creating an extremely porous structure that has a much greater surface to allow very large bacteria populations to colonise. Due to the large quantities of tiny holes, mechanical filtration is also achieved. Large organic solids and decaying matter are degraded at a far greater speed than conventional media



Left Image: Birds eye view of a Bacteria house showing the porous structure.

Right Image: A cross section diagram showing the highly pourous material.

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Bacteria House

One of the key elements of the bacteria house is that the material of the bacteria house reacts electrostatically with floating organic matter causing an increase in adhesion rate. This produces clear clean water at a rapid rate. Water in its natural state creates multiple bonds with surrounding water molecules creating a cluster. The bacteria house emits FAR infrared rays that break the bonds of the neighbouring water molecules thereby allowing more oxygen to be dissolved in the water.


This idea originated from rocks that emitted FAR infrared rays in the Bakuhanseki Spring in Japan, a spring that had great healing properties. FAR infrared rays were first discovered by NASA to have important health benefits. The graph above shows comparisons of Bakuhanseki natural stone (from the famous Bakuhanseki Spring), and Bacteria House filter media. The red line indicates the Bacteria House FIR emissions.

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Bacteria House

This increase in oxygen increases the efficiency of the bacteria to breakdown various water pollutants and fish waste. The FAR infrared radiation also deodorizes the water that may otherwise have an odour as the nitrogen gas is given off after the process of breaking down waste. It also increases the oxygen content of the water for the kois.

The effect of the Bakki Showers, coupled with the smaller water clusters, work very effectively at de-odourising the water, and also allows gases to be released, thereby lightening the load on the biomass, and making the systems considerably less 'KH consuming' than conventional filtration.

The bacteria house is not made of calcium and as such it will never erode and thus does not need maintaining. Due to the extremely large colonies of bacteria (including heterotrophic bacteria) being able to produce antibiotics to kill algae, most Bakki shower ponds with a fair amount of shade will not need UV lamps.

A picture of the kiln used and a description of how bacteria house is made is in the following page.



This is an inside view of one of the kilns at the MTK factory. This is similar to the ones used for firing Bacteria House, but is a lower temperature one, being heated to about 1100c. Bacteria House has to be fired in their hottest kiln at 1300c for 60 hrs, in order to make sure that it's surfaces explode, resulting in the millions of open cells, where the Bacteria multiply.

This is an extremely expensive process, and limits the maximum production to 1.5 tons per day. Bacteria House is made from a careful mix of ingredients, which are blended together with the utmost care.

The mixed raw product then comes out of an extrusion machine, where it is cut to length by two staff, and rolled in a special powder which prevents the pieces of Bacteria House from bonding together in the kiln.Bacteria House in the furnace, being fired. This furnace is about 40 feet long, and to be even as close as 10 feet from the furnace in virtually unbearable.

[Aquatic Planet]

Good information, am using for my tanks..:D

[Aquarian]

Was using three trays each for my 4ft frontosa and Tigers tank, was going to conduct test on whether is actually reduces nitrate level before the power trip incident that wipe out my whole fish collection

Anyone has done any tests to find out if the nitrate level has reduced since the introduction of BH?

[poseidon]

very good info,can try!:)

[Aquarian]

u no need to try la, it is overkill for LH :D

very good info,can try!:)

[Aquatic Planet]

u no need to try la, it is overkill for LH :D
dun get u?:D means good or bad for flowerhorns?:D

[Aquarian]

what i am saying is for FH no need to get such expensive media la

dun get u?:D means good or bad for flowerhorns?:D

[TROY]

very good information on BH:)

Just curious, does its benefits justifies its cost? I mean is it worth buying and using it as the sole filtration system? :o sorry to ask too many question

[Regional]

very good information on BH:)

Just curious, does its benefits justifies its cost? I mean is it worth buying and using it as the sole filtration system? :o sorry to ask too many question

Try it. For me, is for investment like biohome. :)

[Scrubby]

hey bro regional, i got a small "water feature" at home hor, only a few big carps lah, but water gets dirty damn fast leh. i tried all kinds of filtration liao, expensive or cheap ones, put the liquid bacteria also. i even went to qian hu to buy one S$200+ filtration cylinder leh. all don't work leh. how ah? any suggestions besides the bacteria house? my place too small, cannot put big filtration systems, can only put submerged one or external small one. :(

[Scrubby]

and i'm very new with rearing fish, so i donno much.... :(

[Regional]

hey bro regional, i got a small "water feature" at home hor, only a few big carps lah, but water gets dirty damn fast leh. i tried all kinds of filtration liao, expensive or cheap ones, put the liquid bacteria also. i even went to qian hu to buy one S$200+ filtration cylinder leh. all don't work leh. how ah? any suggestions besides the bacteria house? my place too small, cannot put big filtration systems, can only put submerged one or external small one. :(

Get biohome for your canister. Bacterial house is good for sump or OHF filteration.

[Scrubby]

bro, zhun boh? sure can work ah? i try so many liao, sibeh sian liao leh. the bacteria u use what kind? i only get those bottled ones from neighbourhood fish shop leh. where to get the biohome thing?

[Regional]

bro, zhun boh? sure can work ah? i try so many liao, sibeh sian liao leh. the bacteria u use what kind? i only get those bottled ones from neighbourhood fish shop leh. where to get the biohome thing?

Make sure is canister hor.....guarantee wise cannot lah.....I dun know how is your water liao. Wait kanna fiak by you.

[Scrubby]

canister lor. the pump on top of the canister one. inside got many sponges and ceramic things leh (look like biohome leh). i bought a lot most expensive one leh, all cannot work leh. any other good suggestions or not?

[Regional]

canister lor. the pump on top of the canister one. inside got many sponges and ceramic things leh (look like biohome leh). i bought a lot most expensive one leh, all cannot work leh. any other good suggestions or not?

Got pics of your setup boh?

[Scrubby]

i in tokyo now. cannot take pics of the water feature back home leh.

[Regional]

i in tokyo now. cannot take pics of the water feature back home leh.

Wait for you then.....

[Aquarian]

some basic knowledge on filtration

1) Make sure the rate of filteration is at least 4 times the volume of your tank so if the volume is 200litre, you will need at least a 800litre/hour filter.

2) When you change water, make sure u add anti clorine into the water, or else the beneficial bacteria will be wiped out

3) Do not overload your tank

4) If you need to wash the filter media in your cannister, make sure you do not use tap water, use your tank water

5) Do not overfeed

Give us more info on the number of fishes you keep, size and numbers, size of your tank, filter capacity, filter media u use, frequency of your feeding so that we can help u, we are not magician, so we cannot advise u if we do not have those info.

[Scrubby]

hey bro aquarian, thanks man! mine is not really a fish tank lah, it's those carbon fibre container placed on the floor and act as water feature kind. it's about 90cm x 70cm x 20cm. normally i fill it up with water till about 15cm high, so that is about 126 litres of water? a bit of those "salt" (what do u call those salt?) and anti-chlorine always added accordingly when i change water. cannister is about 30-40cm tall, 15cm diameter. inside got sponges (both coarse and fine kinds) and ceramic beads (both rings and balls). in the tank got about 15 small carps, about 5-10cm length each. got plants, got pebbles, got air-pump, got 3 sucker fish, got submerged light. i feed twice a day, not much, just about a small capful (cap is about 3cm height x 2cm diameter cylinder) of tiny floating pellets. the water gets dirty very fast, about 2 days then cloudy liao. :(

[Scrubby]

anyone got any idea how to help?

[Aquarian]

definitely overcrowded already, koi is like gf, they shit a lot too. Your FGT voulume of water at 15cm high of water is only 94 litre !! which is about the slightly bigger than 2ftx1.5ftx1ft tank and you have 18 fishes in there, no wonder the water gets dirty very fast. Sucker fish also shit a lot if there is plenty of food for them to eat besides algae.

First step, reduce the number of fishes and reduce the feeding to once a day

[Scrubby]

that bad ah? wah...like that how? i can't throw them away...wait for them to die ah? :(

[Aquarian]

suggest u

1) find more tank to house them
2) sell it away
3) give it away

that bad ah? wah...like that how? i can't throw them away...wait for them to die ah? :(

[SniperY]

that bad ah? wah...like that how? i can't throw them away...wait for them to die ah? :(Koi the growning rate is fast, and they take up space more. 18 pcs inside a 2ft size alike FGT is definitely crowded for them. As what bro aquarian is either you separate them or let other adopt them lor ;)

[Scrubby]

like that ah? ok... might have to put them in another place. :(

[joelwong]

But koi pond not crowded not nice leh:D

See alot of koi chionging for your hand damn shiok

[SniperY]

But koi pond not crowded not nice leh:D

See alot of koi chionging for your hand damn shiokBro, thats pond. But not inside a tank :)

[Arodynamics]

Water is crystal clear after using BH....

However it works well in a wet dry condition only... not recommended for fully submerged. If Full Submerged, Biohome should be better.

[Aquarian]

do u have close up shot of how u place your BH in your sump?

Water is crystal clear after using BH....

However it works well in a wet dry condition only... not recommended for fully submerged. If Full Submerged, Biohome should be better.

[Arodynamics]

My Bacteria House is in my EOS not sump.... come and see u know how,

[Aquarian]

i notice that in most EOS chamber, the water just trickle down the side, how do u make the water flow down evenly onto the BH, u use a drip plate?

My Bacteria House is in my EOS not sump.... come and see u know how,

[SniperY]

i notice that in most EOS chamber, the water just trickle down the side, how do u make the water flow down evenly onto the BH, u use a drip plate?The most common way ppl used to do is they will measure the size of the chamber, then cut it out and drill the hole, so that the spray will e more evenly lor!

[Aquarian]

yes, that makes sense, wow I thought you never have sump tank then never pay attention to this :wink:

The most common way ppl used to do is they will measure the size of the chamber, then cut it out and drill the hole, so that the spray will e more evenly lor!

[SniperY]

yes, that makes sense, wow I thought you never have sump tank then never pay attention to this :wink:Bro, dont have doesn't meant dont pay attention mah! kekekekeke...... :big_smile:

[Arodynamics]

NO drip plate leh... u do one for me can?

[Aquarian]

i am totally hopeless when it comes to DIY

NO drip plate leh... u do one for me can?

[SniperY]

NO drip plate leh... u do one for me can?Do you have any partition? Just cut out the size according you want, then make two stoppers, then you can put the drip plate ontop.

[david lee]

Bros, just to tesify, bacteria house works. I learnt from bro troy on this weeks ago cos currently using overhead trickle system. 3 column, 3 rows. other than the 3 top rows of sponge filter, 4 are bioballs. Not that they are n good. but the current size of my ST they have to have a more efficient filter system. So i used changed bio balls to bacteria house.

Now water very clear, n i change the big coral chips every 3 mths to maintain higher PH (according to LFS).

And i just love the green long streaks of aglae that grows from the side of the grass.

Bros, try it even if your current system dont give u problems.

Cos i always "upgrade" in the sense of changing materials whenever problems emerge n that's bad.

Jus to share my upgrade progress:
1. started with overhead filter (wet type)
2. change to dry trickle w filter wool, bioball, 1 small packet coral chip, bio ring (Dr aqua-v expensive) n no coral chip in tank
3. added coral chips n use anti chorine/choramine
4. bioball changed to bacteria hse.- a very useful article on that by bro regional.

each change is due to fish having problems but after each change fish started to grow bigger. so this is a consolation but not all fish allow u this opportunity to learn like this. some b4 u learn it, they are dead.

I dont even mind if we over provide good quality filter system, as least u have peace of mind.

Tks all the bros in this fish hub site even form other columns, learnt alot form u guys.

[Regional]

Great to see such sharing bro Lee.