Bio Wheel - A rotating paddle wheel type filtration device that provides excellent wet and dry filtration.
Brackish - Stagnant saline water. Water somewhere between freshwater and marine.
Brine shrimp - Small shrimp used as live fish food.
The Penguin Bio Wheel is made by Marineland and is made from the same parts as the Regent filter from Walmart. Want to conver your Regent to a bio wheel?
Biological Filter - A filter which uses bacteria to breakdown waste in the water into
substances which are less or not at all toxic.
Bio Wheel - A rotating paddle wheel type device that provides excellent wet/dry filtering.
Bio Wheel - A rotating paddle wheel type device that provides excellent wet/dry filtering.
Brackish - Partly salty water. Water in between freshwater and marine.
Brine shrimp - Small shrimp used as live fish food. Sometimes called Sea Monkeys.
Filter w/bio wheel and a standard two foot fluorescent light and tube style heating element all inside a sixty gallon acrylic environment. Healthy, Strong, Tough, Happy, Mean...GREEN! I'll send pictures within these next two weeks. From: Thuy ...
We are thinking about adding the bio wheel to it but we're not sure if it will be that beneficial.
The Eclipse Hexagon 5 is the only aquarium of its kind with total 3-stage filtration, including the unsurpassed biological filtration of the patented BIO wheel.
A- As for filtration, I absolutely love the Marineland Bio Wheel filters. I have one on every tank that has a power filter. For my 125, I am going to use 2 of the Emperor 400s but the Penguin 330s would work just as well.
Bio wheel filters are not difficult to operate or hard to find parts for. As with any filter certain maintenance procedures must be followed but hang on (including biowheel) or canister filters are the most widely used filters for planted tanks.
The new bio wheel craze has much merit. I know some folks are less aware of this type of filtration. If you don't have a biowheel, your risking the lives of you fish. Time to step it up to the new technology, and so so cheap.
These are usually in the form of a compartment in the filter filled with biological media or an attached external 'bio wheel', a pleated wheel that the water flows over as it is leaving the filter and returning to the aquarium.
The thing is that this bacteria needs something to grow in. While the bacteria can grow right in the gravel bed, a lot of mechanical filters include a bio wheel or some type of media or a sponge that the bacteria can grow on.
An even better filter system is the penguine bio wheel pro series. These filters use a sponge filter on the input of a powerhead for mechanical filtration. The output flow from the powerhead is split into two flows.
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