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Plastic Bio-Filter Ribbon Media

We sell this Plastic Ribbon Bio-Filter Media in 4 Types, see below. Each bid is for 1 lb and your Choice of any of the 4 Types we have for sale, and Yes you can Mix-n-Match the 4 Types, on your order of 2 or more 1 lb. bids.

When buying 3 or more bids, ask for a corrected shipping invoice instead of paying the shipping cost from ebay's checkout.

We use these 4 types of Plastic Ribbon Media for our Bio-logical filter materials in our Floating Islands we make for personal

ponds, commercial pond settings, buisness parks retention ponds, and anywhere else someone wants a floating island.

Type A: This is basically a Flat Ribbon, Its approx. 3/8" (+/- 1/16") wide. But it does have a slight curve inward along both edges.

This makes a good structural ribbon in your filter that won't compact from the waters pressure. We interlace this ribbon with

either of the other 3 types we sell for extra holding power for the nitrifying bacteria

Type B: This is basically a Flat Crinkled Ribbon, Its approx. 5/16" (+/- 1/16") wide. But it does have a great advantage to it since it has only one side of the ribbon as a continous strip, the opposite side has small cuts, that look like a string banner. The only drawback to this ribbon is that its reccomended that you need to use a meshbag to hold it together. Packing it into a filter compartment tends to break the continous string along the one edge, into smaller segments.

Type C: This is basically a Flat Slightly Crinkled Edge Gray Plastic Ribbon, Its approx. 5/16" (+/- 1/16") wide. This ribbon makes a good filler material for Type A ribbon above or for a filler material for 2.5'' or larger Plastic Bio-Balls.

Type D: This is a Flat Gray Plastic Ribbon, Its approx. 1/16" (+/- 1/32") wide. This size ribbon is good for a small filters, or as a filler material worked into the larger ribbons for filler. This ribbon makes a good filler material for Type A ribbon above or for a filler material for 2.5" and smaller Plastic Bio-Balls.

We reccomend that you clean and sterilize any ribbon filter material before placing it in you ponds filters. First make a hot water bath in a 5 gl bucket with a good amount of liquid dish soap, slosh the ribbons up and down for 5 minutes, then have another bucket handy with a sterilizing solution made up with 1 part household bleach to 10 parts of water, let the ribbon set in this soulution for 1 hour, remove and rinse the ribbon with clean water, Let dry in the sun before using in your filter.

This is the same sterilizing solutions that we use in our Commercial Plant Growing buisness before we reuse any and all used pots and trays.

Any Questions you have, just ask thru ebay.

How much surface area does each of your Types of ribbon have?

I, get asked this question a lot, and I've also read some exoribent amounts to claims of how much surface area is there to different sizes of tapes.

Here is what you want to do, draw a equalaterial triangle of 3/8" on each side like my Type A ribbon above. Now draw another equalaterial triangle of 1/16" on each side like my Type D ribbon above. Now compare the Type D tape triangle to the Type A triangle, how many Type D triangles can you fit inside the Type A triangle, Yes you are right 36.

BUT, Its not only about surface area, its about how much bacteria you can succesfully grow in a limited area, using the least amount of media. Type D ribbon above will grow more than Type A, because of different factors.

If you use just Type A media anywhere it crosses itself or touches each other surfaces, you lose surface area. But with Type D media, being that its more thinner making for a more closer intertwinning, the bacteria can now float free of the ribbon but is trapped also, which now means you are gaining surface area.

Other Factors you need to consider when figuring the surface area for bacteria to grow in a filter.

Does your filter have a trickle system on top for distribution of the water to be filtered.

Does your filter have a flow rate thru for the distribution of the water to be filtered.

Does your filter have a source for injecting oxygen into the filters column.

These are just a few, there can be many more factors also to consider.

So why don't we sell this by the 1 Cubic Foot Box

I've bought plenty of these ribbons from different sellers over the years. I, use it for the biological filter element in my own Floating Islands, so I need a lot of it. But when you get the 1 Cubic Foot box, yes there is 2 lbs. in the box, but the box could hold

an additional 1 to 2 lbs of ribbons depending on the type of ribbon if its packed right.

FREE SHIPPING - Why we don't do it

Free Shipping is a gimmick that robs the buyer, thats you. Say you want 5 lbs of ribbons and and if I offered Free S/H my costs would be $18.80 per lb. ($10.00 for the material + $8.80 for the shipping at todays USPS rates), 1 lb of material ships the at 2 lbs, remember you also have to pay for the weight of the box. Now say you bought the 5 lbs, you would pay me $94.00 total.

But since I, have calculated shipping were you have to enter your zip-code, and the number of bid units you want, your shipping costs for 1 lb would be from $5.65 to $8.80 depending on what Zone you are in from me. But it doesn't stop there, since the seller when they make up the auction, inputs that the first pound ships for 2 lbs, which is true since you have to add the weight of the box, it goes the 2 lb rate, now when the shipping calculator also is inputed with a unit bid of 5, it multiplies that 2 lb's times 5 and rates it at the 10 lb rate. So now you would pay between $10.60 to $26.60 USPS rates depending on what Zone you are in from me, thats because the combined shipping weight of the 5 lbs of product plus the weight of the box would ship at the 7 lb rate.

Remember what I stated above

When buying 3 or more bids, ask for a corrected shipping invoice instead of paying the shipping cost from the checkout.

The seller is the only person that can change the shipping costs on the Invoice, and we don't overcharge for shipping so for the shipping costs of 5 lbs of product it would cost between $9.60 to $15.55 shipped by FedEX Ground, depending on what Zone you are in from me.

So that is the reason we don't offer FREE S/H.

All shipping costs are based above are from Zone 1 ( 78059 USPS or 78228 FedEX Ground ) for the 48 Continential USA states

only. For rates to Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, or Overseas send me your shipping address and the total amounts

that you want to buy.

Yes we will Wholesale these 4 types of ribbons

Call 830-709-5873 or 210-240-6010

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If you buying 3 or more bids of a single auction, or you want to combine 2 different auctions, ask for a combined shipping invoice. Ebay's Checkout will charge you too much for combined shipping. The way we do it is to figure the total combined weights, and check with all the shippiong carriers for the cheapest rates.