Things you Don’t Know about Bio Ball

1. Are all bio balls spherical in shape and black in color?

No, bio balls are black plastic balls designed so as to provide losts of surfaces within the area they occupy. Bio balls come in many sizes, colors and designes (some evene in cubes). But most common bio ball is the spherical, black bioball.

2. There are many holes in Bio Ball, are they easily get clogged?

Bio balls are used for biological filtration, when using with a prefilter, bio ball is impossible to clog up, the reason is simple: the gabs of space within a bioball is large and anything that can clog it up would already have been filtered by the prefilter (such as filter wool, sponge etc). This is the reason why water filteration should always pass through mechanical filteration (prefilter) before biological filteration.

One other benefits bioballs have is, it is also the aeration it provides. Their large gabs allow air/oxygen rich water to enter to mix with the dispersed water surfaces, so there is excellent interatction between air and water and gas exchange and oxygen is essential for the conversion of ammonia into nitriets and then to nitrates by aerobic bacteria.

3. Bioballs is famous for “nitrate factory”?

In reality, all biological media are nitrate factories without mechnical filteration. Because without a prefilter, solid wastes and uneaten food scraps end up sitting on the biological media nad ultimately breaking down into nitrates. Aprefilter would have allowed these foods and solid wastes to be removed before they have the chance to break down into ammonia, to nitites and to nitrates. If you have following the logic, you would also realise that if you don’t maintain your mechinical filtration regularly by replacing or washing, then if will be a nitrate factory as well.