Press

Degrading nitrate is not as easy as you think

Developing a filter material to counteract algae-promoting nitrate (NO3) is no easy matter. Bacteria only degrade nitrate when the oxygen content in water is practically non-existent and carbon is present as a food source for them. JBL has improved the structure of its nitrate-degrading filter material JBL BioNitratEx to speed up the nitrate degradation. The new material structure leads to "pockets" the water cannot pass through, so that it almost comes to a standstill. This means biofilms can form faster and underneath these, oxygen-free zones are created. The bacteria settling there then have to convert their breathing method (facultative anaerobes) and so doing extract the oxygen from the nitrate. The filter material serves the bacteria as food (carbon source) and becomes thinner and smaller over time. This allows users to visually monitor how much of their JBL nitrate remover is still available and to supplement or replace it as needed. The new JBL BioNitratEx can easily be recognized by the smaller segmentation of the individual balls. With the help of JBL BioNitratEx, every aquarist can keep unwanted algae under control by depriving them of food in a natural, biological way. And all this effortlessly and without side effects. Algae control could not be easier!

Product description
© 07.08.2018 JBL GmbH & Co. KG
Your opinion is important to us
specialist dealers near you
Sustainability at JBL
Download catalogue

Information and consent to cookies & third-party content

We use technically necessary cookies/tools to offer, operate and secure this service. Furthermore ,with your express consent , we use cookies/tools for marketing, tracking, creating personalised content on third-party sites and for displaying third-party content on our website. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future via the menu item ‘Cookie settings’.
By clicking on ‘Allow all’, you give us your express consent to the use of cookies/tools to improve the quality and performance of our service, for functional and personalised performance optimisation, to measure the effectiveness of our ads or campaigns, for personalised content for marketing purposes, including outside our website. This enables us to provide personalised online ads and extended analysis options about your user behaviour. This also includes accessing and storing data on your device. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future via the menu item ‘Cookie settings’.
You can use the ‘Change settings’ button to grant and revoke individual consent to the cookies/tools and receive further information on the cookies/tools we use, their purposes and duration.
By clicking on ‘Only absolutely necessary’, only technically necessary cookies/tools are used.

Our data protection declaration tells you how we process personal data and what purposes we use the data processing for.

Change settings
Only absolutely necessary
Allow all

Cookie settings

Show history Close history
Cancel Save

PUSH messages from JBL

What are PUSH messages? As part of the W3C standard, web notifications define an API for end-user notifications that are sent to the user's desktop and/or mobile devices via the browser. Notifications appear on the end devices as they are familiar to the end user from apps installed on the device (e.g. emails). Notifications appear on the end user’s device, just like an app (e.g. for emails) installed on the device.

These notifications enable a website operator to contact its users whenever they have a browser open - it doesn’t matter whether the user is currently visiting the website or not.

To be able to send web push notifications, all you need is a website with a web push code installed. This allows brands without apps to take advantage of many of the benefits of push notifications (personalised real-time communications at just the right moment).

Web notifications are part of the W3C standard and define an API for end user notifications. A notification makes it possible to inform the user about an event, such as a new blog post, outside the context of a website.

JBL GmbH & Co. KG provides this service free of charge, and it is easy to activate or deactivate.