Biohome Maxi Ultimate

Biohome Maxi Ultimate is best used in Bakki showers and also submerged in bio tanks.

Biohome Maxi ultimate is essentially known as a Sintered Glass media as it is mostly constructed from special sand with added trace elements to increase bacteria performance and has a porosity of over 50%. This material is colonised much faster than Ceramic media which is made from clay.

You can check out the extreme porosity of the Ultimate yourself by touching just the tip of a piece media to the surface of some water. You’ll be amazed at how fast the water is drawn up the entire length.

As the name suggests Biohome Maxi Ultimate is the pinnacle of filter media design and strikes a perfect balance of size, strength, surface area accessibility and specific trace elements which ensure that it will outperform every other filter media for the removal of ammonia, nitrite AND nitrate.

Biohome Maxi Ultimate is made from industrial grade material to ensure a long working life. Long working life and reliability are hallmarks of all Biohome products.

Biohome Maxi Ultimate allows both nitrifying (aerobic) and denitrifying (anaerobic) bacteria to grow on and through it’s unique structure.

Biohome Maxi Ultimate Trace elements added include:

Titania, Alumina, Ferric Oxide, Lime, Magnesia, Potash, Soda, Phosphorus Pentoxide, Chromium Sesquioxide, Manganic Oxide, Zirconia, Hafnia, Zinc Oxide, Barium Oxide, Strontia, Stannic Oxide, Sulphur Trioxide.

The trace elements are fused into the structure of this media and are there to enhance bacterial processes only, not to alter water chemistry.

Biohome Maxi Ultimate is an efficient biological filter media and good mechanical filtration must be provided to insure the water passing through it does not contain any debris that might clog it and reduce efficiency. It allows both nitrifying (aerobic) bacteria for reduction in ammonia and nitrite and denitrifying (anaerobic) bacteria for reduction in nitrate to grow on and through it’s unique structure.

1 kilogram of media is approximately equal to approx. 1.25 cubic litre.

For best nitrate reduction use approx. 1kg per 100 litres of pond water for a normally stocked pond. Heavily stocked systems can take between 1.5kg - 2kg per 100 litres to achieve full cycle filtration (reduction in nitrate).

As all Biohome media is inert it allows you to raise or lower the pH to suit certain fish species without having a buffering effect.