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Vortex Brushes
Vortex Brushes
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Vortex chambers are good for settling out heavy waste but are much less efficient with the lightweight particles to conquer this Vortex brushes can be used.
Have you noticed that even though you get a lot of waste in the bottom of your vortex, you still find that the subsequent chambers get very dirty too? This is because of the very fine particles that do not have time to settle in the vortex, so they get drawn through the transfer port into the next chamber.
How do they work?
Black Knight brushes work in three ways.
- Firstly, they physically trap the large particles that cannot pass through the close weave of the interlocking filaments.
- Secondly, the filaments have a static charge that grabs any small particles that are flowing by. This charge holds onto the waste until you do your routine cleaning.
- Thirdly, after you have been using the brushes for a few weeks, the massive surface area of the brushes becomes home to millions of beneficial nitrifying bacteria that will help to purify your water biologically.
How do you use them?
Simply insert a vortex brush in the path of the flowing water to start collecting waste. If your second and subsequent chambers are already full of media then you can use either one vortex brush, which you strategically place around the transfer port, or you can use several to build up a barrier of them above the inlet of the vortex and below the outlet (assuming that your vortex is designed in this way). This will allow the heavy waste to drop to the bottom of the chamber. All waste that doesn't settle is passed through the brushes and collect.
You can coil one or two vortex brushes around the outlet so that the water has to pass through the brushes. You can create a complete barrier filling the whole cross section of the chamber.
The more brushes you use, the greater the amount of waste that can be collected and the larger the surface area for biological filtration. Vortex brushes can be used in as many chambers as you wish. It is a good idea to leave some room in the first chamber to allow for settlement but subsequent chambers can be filled with vortex or filter brushes.
Details:
102" x 4" (2600mm x 100mm) diameter.
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