What Is A Pond Filter Seeder?
Pond filter seeders or pond filter bacteria starters supposedly contain a living freeze dried version of nitrifying bacteria, which are found naturally in nature. They are advertised as benefiting new pond filter set ups by quickly building up colonies of beneficial bacteria, needed to break down toxic ammonia, found in backyard ponds containing pond fish.
Nitrobacter and Nitrosomonas bacteria according to the manufacturers claims are freeze dried and will readily help to seed your pond filter media. Pond Filter seeder is usually available as a powder or in liquid form.
If I were you I would keep my money and refrain from buying any such product as the product is probably worthless. Let me explain why ...
In a backyard pond where the beneficial bacteria colonize the pond filter media naturally over a period of time, oxygen is critically important to their survival. If starved of oxygen overnight the colonies would be destroyed. A pond pump needs to supply oxygen to these beneficial bacteria 24/7.
With this fact in mind I find it difficult to believe that a pond filter seeder product that has been freeze dried and then stored for weeks, perhaps even longer, without a constant supply of oxygen will still be viable.
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