Since 1978 we have been exporting tropical fish to the American market. Our customers demand healthy, good looking fish at a reasonable price. To do this we must maintain excellent water quality.

We had quite a challenge of trying to maintain excellent water quality. We keep about 20,000 Arius Jordany (a small catfish that comes from brackish waters) in 2000 liters of water. This catfish must be caught in city sewers where they feed all day on waste products and some toxic matter. We catch these fish, then transport them, to clear waters where they must be cleaned and maintained for three weeks until they are ready to export.

Highly sophisticated filtering equipment, where use, and much filtering substrate must be changed periodically, with high expenses, hurting our final price with increasing costs.

We had to find another way to filter the water. In 1995 we started using bacteria as a filter and the results were fantastic! The results of this bacteria bed were so astonishing that we were able to pack 250 fish per box instead of only 80!.

We then began creating the filters for personal aquariums and have had fantastic results here as well. We have aquariums that requires only minimal maintenance.

In our experience during two years period testing we only needed to perform partial water changes when vacuuming debris for the filter bottom. All fish in it are healthy and in perfect conditions, showing to this point no symptoms of distress or sickness. You have to see it to believe it.