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For many people the word ozone sounds familiar, and this is usually because they've read about the ozone hole above Antarctica.
Here the natural ozone layer has become so depleted it cannot filter out the UV radiation from the sun. However, ozone has numerous industrial applications.
One specific application is water purification.
And it has been used for many years now in fish breeding farms.
Wherever we look, be it a salmon breeding farm, a commercial sea aquarium, aquariums in zoos or just by the thousands of amateurs who keep an aquarium at home, the use of ozone is useful in many applications.
This most efficient of filter systems was never the less a problem for many fish lovers. The ozone generators were either too small or too costly.
Estrad however has a concept that makes ozone generators more efficient and with sufficient capacity.
The new family of EstrOzone Generators has an optional redox potential sensor system that ensures the generator works only when required.
This means that the water quality is monitored by means of its redox value. Only when this value is too low, the ozone generator will produce ozone to maintain a good water quality.
A great advantage of the EstrOzone is that they work directly: no more waiting weeks or even months for the build up of bacteria necessary in a standard biological filter and this happens without any form of waste products.
The EstrOzone is the ideal method for keeping the pond water in optimal condition.
It not only results in clean water but also healthy fish.
Because harmful waste products such as nitrite are converted into harmless compounds, the fish quickly achieves a better condition and this gives them more resistance to stress and illness. Ozone also delivers extra oxygen to the water, this not only benefits the fish but also creates the extra growth of nitrifying bacteria.
What is ozone??
Ozone is a sort of super oxygen.
Instead of two oxygen atoms (O2) it has three such atoms (O3).
This state can be achieved in various ways such as through the use of high voltage.
Ozone is however unstable and results in the ozone trying to revert as quickly as possible back into oxygen. Ozone seeks out a substance that it can oxidize so that the original state is quickly realized. In this way a very powerful oxidizer is created that not only environmentally friendly is but also leaves behind no waste products. With its task completed it leaves only pure oxygen.
Applications.
Ozone has been used for years in the purification of water.
In particular swimming pools have benefited because it results in the use of less chlorine. Drinking water also benefits in this way. For sea aquarium hobbyists it has for years formed a successful combination with a protein skimmer to remove both ammonia and nitrite.
Such apparatus however either had a restricted capacity or were alarmingly expensive for professional applications.
Through new technical ESTRAD has been successful in greatly increasing the output of its products so that affordable ozone generators are now available for the purification of complete fish ponds.
The new generation Ozone Generators are cheap and reliable to run.
Possibilities
As an addition to an existing system.
The performance of a filter system is based upon the amount of feed that pollutes the pond. The same amount of feed but now with more fish will result in less pollution because the feed will be better digested.
In many cases the fish grow so quickly that after a time a state of filter under capacity exists.
This occurs mostly during warm summer months when the fish are fed more and because warm water contains less oxygen so the nitrifying bacteria act less efficiently.
Usually pollution rises quickly at this time because it takes weeks before sufficient nitrite producing bacteria form.
A small ozone generator is therefore the ideal supplement to your system to allow you to react to these pollution peaks and always ensure a constantly high water quality.
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