Packaging Size: 1kg Best Quality Pond Bottom Sludge Remover Bacteria Powder, For Industrial, Grade Standard: Bio-Tech Grade

BactaServe - Pond Cleaner is a completely natural and harmless method of controlling nitrates, phosphates, organic bottom sludge and odours. BactaServe Pond Cleaner is a special blend of naturally occurring bacteria which have the ability to degrade the number of compounds. BactaServe Pond Cleaner works in the entire water column, as

well as bottom sludge layers, to digest any organic wastes generated by animal and plant life in the pond. The cultures are completely safe, and will not harm humans, plants, animals, birds or the environment.

Benefits of BactaServe Pond Cleaner:

Removes nitrogen and phosphorous compounds from pondwater.

Reduces BOD & COD level.

Breaks down organic and fecal waste in the water.

Clarifies lake or pond water.

Stabilizes oxygen levels, so that fish can breathe easier.

Reduces accumulated organic bottom sludge.

Enhances uptake of nutrients by grasses when used for irrigationponds.

Improves the aquatic environment for fish andwildlife.

Eliminates ammonia and organic odors.

Reduces formation of hydrogen Sulphide.

Completely safe for humans, animals, fish and aquatic plantlife

How BactaServe Pond Cleaner works:

The principle behind BactaServe Pond Cleaner is that of bioaugmentation. Bioaugmentation is the controlled addition of selected natural microorganisms into a specific environment to carry out a defined objective.

Bacteria are isolated from soil and water samples and tested in the laboratory for their ability to degrade complex organic compounds. These organisms work in concert, each strain possessing the enzyme systems necessary to degrade specific components of the waste, yielding breakdown intermediates that are further degraded by other species in the blend. In this manner, complex compounds can be systematically reduced to ever more simple and ultimately non-harmful compounds such as water and carbon dioxide.

Whether in the small confines of the hobbyist's aquarium, in commercial fish and shrimp aquaculture farms or in golf course ponds, ammonia, nitrite, and phosphate must be removed or kept at every low levels. By adding BactaServe Pond Cleaner to the water phase, a living system of biologically active seed culture, enzymes, activators and accelerators, developed specifically for ponds and aquaculture, is introduced. The BactaServe microbes populate the entire system, multiply, and produce large quantities of digestive enzymes on a continuing basis.

The bacterial cultures will reduce BOD and allow existing microbes to oxidize ammonia to form nitrite and nitrate, and then reduce the nitrite and nitrate to nitrogen gas. These reactions give the bacteria both the energy and nutrients they require to grow and reproduce.

Pond Cleaner also degrades accumulated organic waste, suspended organic material and bottom sludge for use as carbon sources. The overall result is a pond with clean, clear water.

The conversion of ammonia to nitrite and nitrate in natural environments is a process that occurs normally when the input of nitrogen does not exceed the absorptive capacity of the system. The absorptive capacity is normally dependent on natural populations of the organism Nitrosomonas and Nitrobacter. However when the absorptive capacity is exceeded the result is excess accumulation of bottom sludge, algae and pond scum as well as highturbidity.

Nitrosomonas converts ammonia to nitrite, and Nitrobacter converts nitrite to nitrate. These conversion reactions, however, are very delicate and can be inhibited by high concentrations of organics, ammonia and/or nitrate and inappropriate pH.