Ultra Bead Filter UB140
The Ultrabead UB140 Bead filters are a closed (pressure) vessel filled with millions of small plastic beads. These beads float and therefore provide a good means of mechanical filtration with an enormous surface of which these beads provide the biological filtration.
For ponds up to: 20000 gallons.
Bead Capacity: 165kg Beads
Ultrabead Bead Filter Mechanical filtration: the beads float in a closed vessel and are packed very close to each other. Its the pressure of the pump that makes the water flow upward through the beads. The small dirt particles will stick in the bead pack. The longer the filter is active, the more bio film there will be around the beads and therefore smaller particles can be filtered.
Ultrabead Bead Filter Biological filtration: the specific surface of the beads is about 1600m2 per m3 (6 times more than a blue Japanese Mat), so the bio film layer around the beads extremely useful for nitrifying the bacteria that consume vast amounts of ammonia and nitrites.
Pre Filters
The in and output system of the Ultrabead Bead Filter has laterals (slotted pipe) to stop the beads escaping the filter and therefore we need a pre-filter to prevent the possibility of large solids ie (string algae, pine needles, leaves and fish waste) coming in from a bottom drain or submersible pump.
We strongly recommend the use of the Ultrasieve III filter in before the Ultrabead Bead Filter.
How The UltraBead 60 Bead Filter Works
Water enters into the chamber under pressure from the pump. This water, by means of the unique design of the Ultrabead Bead Filter, spins separating the heavier solids and forcing them to the centre of the tank. The solids are collected in the centre of the Ultrabead Bead Filter, waiting to be hydraulically purged out under pressure from the pump. This is done by opening the swirl separation valve with the pump still running and the filter in it’s normal filtration mode and the heavier solids are evacuated in just a couple of seconds. What does all of this mean? well Ultrabead Bead Filter is the most unique, efficient filter of its kind. An efficient filter like the Ultrabead Bead Filter doesn’t hold solids, it gets rid of them!
Now that the water is in the Ultrabead Bead Filter it is forced slowly upward in the vessel through zillions of beads. On these beads are billions of nitrifying bacteria and these hungry bacteria are consuming vast amounts of ammonia, nitrites, etc. and performing what is known as nitrification. This is how we actually have clean, healthy water is due to the work these minute organisms are performing. Water continues to flow upward through the beads and exits out of the Ultrabead Bead Filter via the top spray bar. This water then continues into the multi port valve and depending on the setting on the multi port, the water continues then to the pond.
The Ultrabead Bead Filter have another unique feature: the UltraTrust Blower . This blower is mounted on a special air check valve. It is important that the valve be in the rinse position for the blower agitation of the beads. When the blower is active the beads and debris are dispersed throughout the interior of the filter. This breaks up the beads and releases the trapped particles. This debris then can easily be backwashed out to waste through the spray bar .
After the RINSE cycle with air we perform a backwash in which the water enters at C en leaves the filter through A. After the backwash there will be another RINSE cycle but with water instead of air. This takes any remaining debris and sends it to waste , instead of sending a cloud of dirt back to the pond.
All UltraBead Bead filters models are standard equipped with a 2” multi-port valve, a transparent access cap and a powerful blower.
UltraBead filters are constructed from high quality fibreglass conforming drink water standards so they are completely save for your fish.
The UltraBead Bead filters come with a warranty period of 5 years on the pipe and fitting system and a warranty period of 10 years on the fibreglass vessel and beads.
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