Cell Pore users, feedback please.

Please excuse the cross post, I am trying to get a cross section response to
my query.

I purchased a couple of sheets of cell pore when it was first on sale all
those years ago, thinking I would use it in my then marine tank. I never
used it and it is still in the packaging it arrived in. I am now in the
process of planning my new aquarium and am wondering how best to use it. I
will have a sump where I will be placing a deep sand bed. My thought was to
place the sheets under the sand to act as an extra area for denitrification.
Does anyone have experience of using it this way?

Thanks

Mark
www.marksfish.me.uk

Without a way for the water to flow *through* the cell pore media,
there will be no nitrifying bacteria within it.......... Frank

Without a way for the water to flow *through* the cell pore media,
there will be no nitrifying bacteria within it.......... Frank

But surely you could say that about live rock and sintered glass materials?

The structures are so dense that mineral rich water will get to the
structure where the anaerobic bacteria will be able to survive. Isn't that
how the plenum and deep sand bed methods work, or am I missing something?

Cheers

Mark

The void space within the ceramic pore block is larger than the
prefered granular size media (below 0.2mm but above 0.050mm), for a DSB
(deep sand bed). The larger void space and SSA (specific surface area)
within the block is best suited for aerobic bacteria for decomposition
of organic material. In a DSB, nitrAtes are pulled down into the
Anaerobic bacteria level, 1.5 to 2" and deeper, by diffusion, where the
media's void space SSA should be much smaller than that of the cell
pore block - something such as "Miracle Mud" would be a much better
media for a DSB area within your sump. ........... Frank

Thanks for that Frank, much appreciated.

Regards

Mark

You building your own sump? ..............Frank