Bactocool® Aquarium and Pond
Harmless bacteria keep your fish in top form
Stop ammonia and nitrite!
It is of vital importance for your fish to convert their toxic waste into non-toxic forms as quickly as possible. Ammonia and nitrite are the most important damaging waste materials for your fish - they can be fatal even at low doses.
Bactocool® is a highly concentrated culture of safe, living nitrifying bacteria that will ensure a rapid conversion of the toxic ammonia and nitrite into nitrate.
Bactocool® is available in 100 mL bottles for aquaria and 500 mL and 1000 mL packaging for ponds.
Start up of a new aquarium
Without Bactocool it takes 30 to 45 days for the toxic substances ammonia and nitrite to be converted into harmless nitrate. During this long start-up period fatal doses of ammonia and nitrite may be formed. By using Bactocool the biological balance will be achieved in a very short time (just a few days). This will allow the fish to be immediately added to the aquarium.
Existing aquarium
After cleaning your filter, a medical treatment or when adding extra fish the required biological balance may be disturbed. Avoid sudden mortality caused by ammonia and nitrite by using Bactocool.
How to use Bactocool ?
Shake well before use.
A bottle of 100 ml can be used to treat aquaria up to 250 litres.
It is recommended to add Bactocool in the filter if there is one.
If a higher dose has been used, the aquarium water can become temporarily turbid.
This is perfectly normal and will disappear after 1 or 2 days.
Storage life
Since Bactocool contains living bacteria, we advise you to keep the product refrigerated (4 °C).
The product remains safe to be used once the best-before date has passed, although its effectiveness may be reduced.
Start up of a new pond
At the start-up of a new pond a huge variety of good bacteria is needed before it is safe to introduce the fish. The most important group, the nitrifying bacteria, are not present when starting up a new pond. The use of Bactocool ensures that these essential bacteria are present in large amounts right from the start.
500 ml for 5000 litres of pond water
1 litre for 10000 litres of pond water
Addition of extra fish to an existing pond
Whenever extra fish are added to an existing pond, the filter has to process additional waste material. If the bacteria already present in the pond are unable to convert this additional waste material into harmless forms in time, ammonia or nitrite problems may occur.
Avoid sudden mortality and use Bactocool to improve the effectiveness of the filter.
500 ml for 5.000 litres of pond water
1 litre for 10.000 litres of pond water
Maintenance of your pond
To prepare your pond after the winter period, we advise you to add Bactocool to your pond filter in spring (starting in March). Adding a culture of living nitrifying bacteria ensures a rapid recovery of the biological balance once the winter is over.
After cleaning your filter or after medical treatment the required biological balance may be disturbed. Avoid sudden mortality caused by ammonia and nitrite and use Bactocool to improve the effectiveness of the filter.
500 ml for 25.000 litres of pond water
1 litre for 50.000 litres of pond water
How to use Bactocool ?
Shake well before use.
It is recommended to add Bactocool in the filter if there is one.
Since Bactocool contains living bacteria, the UV lamp must be turned off for 7 days.
After this period the bacteria are sufficiently attached to the filter and can no longer be damaged by ultraviolet rays.
Storage life
Since Bactocool contains living bacteria, we advise you to keep the product refrigerated (4 °C).
The product remains safe to be used once the best-before date has passed, although its effectiveness may be reduced.
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