Beneficial Bacteria to Clear Ponds and Lakes

The Bacillus bacteria in ByoFix Benficial Bacteria are packaged and shipped in spore form. The advantages of supplying ByoFix Benficial Bacteria in spore form are:

• Long term, stable shelf life
• Greater tolerance to harsh environmental conditions
• Competitive with other types of microbe
• Work synergistically with other Bacillus, as well as other select microbes
• Able to be formulated with many other ingredients allowing superior and unique formulas to be made

On introduction to a contaminated pond or lake the spores in ByoFix rapidly germinate into vegetative cells. After germination, the bacteria start secreting their enzymes, breaking down the algae for an energy source.

Byofix Beneficial Bacteria Powder is particularly active in neutralizing excess nitrates in water that often result in blanket weed and duckweed

The Rhodococcus and Rhodobacter bacteria in ByoFix 4X-PS is supplied in liquid form. It’s primarily used in ponds with high organic loads or sludge at the bottom. The probiotic species present consumes the organic matter for proliferation and growth thereby reducing the load.

Other advantages of ByoFix 4X-PS are:

• Works in a wide range of salinity and turbidity
• Effectively removes sludge within a few days
• Highly concentrated Does not require fermenting before usage
• Widely used in aquaculture and breeding ponds

ByoFix 4X-PS improves the water quality by controlling pH, reducing ammonia and nitrite levels within 2-3 days whilst eliminating suspended organic matter in the pond water. If there are bubbles in the water, they will disappear also. Once the waste organic matter or sludge depletes from the pond or lake the blue green algae cannot survive due to a lack of food.

An explanation about the problems that can occur in ponds and lakes

Organic matter in the form of fallen leaves, unconsumed feed, grass cuttings and faeces collects at the bottom of ponds and lakes. Over time this matter decays turning into a thick black sludge. The decomposition process exerts an oxygen demand leading to dissolved oxygen depletion. Decreased dissolved oxygen levels result in the release of unwanted by-products into the aquatic environment. By-products include ammonia, hydrogen sulphide, nitrites and nitrates which further depletes the dissolved oxygen promoting the growth of unwanted phytoplankton groups like blue green algae. Algae not only blocks pumps and filters; it discolours the water, forming green scum on the surface (the Pea Green effect), often having fatal consequences for aquatic life.

Having an algal problem is obvious, but how to reduce or halt it is the question faced by all, from gardeners with a small pond to full time aquatic experts looking after lakes measured in acres.

The solution is to let nature fight the battle

One popular method, widely used is to reduce the amount of light from entering the pond by using a DyoFix pond dye, another is by the introduction of a natural bacteria, ByoFix.

Bacteria are single-celled organisms and one of the earliest known forms of life on the planet. Although impossible to identify all bacterial species, thousands have been studied and despite the negative perception, the majority of bacteria are not harmful and are widely used in industrial, domestic and natural applications, by exploiting their natural metabolism. Bacteria, like people, carry out two types of metabolism: anabolism, requiring energy to build useful complex molecules, and catabolism, the breakdown or digestion of complex molecules. Digestion involves decomposition of organic materials ranging from natural wastes to chemical by-products. Bacteria become particularly attractive in the purification process of rivers, streams and lakes. These processes can be the solution to returning an aquatic environment back to its original conditions purifying contaminated water.

The natural bacteria contained in ByoFix typically replicate on average every 20 minutes in a logarithmic growth pattern. One cell will divide reproducing two new daughter cells. After 12 hours its calculated there will be approximately 70 billion cells. ByoFix introduces millions of bacteria at the start of the process. The numbers become colossal, the bacteria spread, start to break down the excessive organic matter and nutrients. Water quality begins to improve, notably the water becomes clearer and any odorous gases given off will diminish

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