In its most basic form tungsten carbide is a fine gray powder but it can be pressed and formed into shapes through a process called sintering for use in industrial machinery cutting tools abrasives armor piercing shells and jewellery.
Ceramic rings vs live rock.
Lava rock is relatively inert and shouldn t mess with your chemistry.
In this video we teach you how to do it yourself diy and make your very own live rock for your reef.
Bio balls and ceramic rings vs live rock in the sump.
Tungsten carbide chemical formula.
Ceramic rings can hold a second beneficial bacteria.
Unlike closed pore biomedia water can freely flow through the porous ceramic.
Everyone was used to shopping for the traditional metal choices.
Yes i do agree that they do catch a lot of junk because stirring or moving them stir up a lot of green water.
You won t have to worry about it breaking or scratching.
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Ok everybody condemn bio balls and ceramic rings as detritus catchments tools and creating a nitrate factory.
Ceramic rings are changing the game.
Denitrifying bacteria live deep inside rock ceramic and other porous materials where oxygen cannot reach them.
Wc is a chemical compound specifically a carbide containing equal parts of tungsten and carbon atoms.
The best way to use marinepure would be in a canister filter or contact chamber.
Generally i use live rock pieces about 3 4 cm in diameters.
When marine pure ceramic biomedia plates are substrated in the sump without water flowing through them wouldn t they just become.
These bacteria eat nitrates and will only survive where there is no oxygen present.
The only caveat i would add make sure it s in a high flow area kind of redundant if you re going to crush and put in the filter but if you were to just toss a lump of it in your tank without flow it.
You won t find this bacteria in plastic or foam filter media.
Reef aquarists will appreciate the biological nitrate reducing properties that the media promotes.
Now you have even more choices and a wider variety to choose from.
This is a resilient material that is perfect for everything you do in your life.
This week we are answering mack jones question from week 13.
Many have used lava rock over the years and many still swear by it.