Installation Video

See how simple it is to set up the Zero Water Change SystemCheck out our installation video.

The Hi-Q Eco Magic System works

For the past four or five months I've been using the HI-Q Eco Magic system on a 40 gallon breeder tank, without doing any water changes, and with a lot of fish in the tank. I also have a lot of fast growing plants. There were never any ammonia or nitrite in the tank ( I used Hi-Q's tank starter, which worked well), and the nitrates settled down around 70 -- 80. The fish have all been fine. It's interesting that there are a couple of new products on the market, like the Hi-Q Eco-Magic, that use technology from the commercial food fish aquaculture industry that has been scaled down for the aquarium hobby. These products all work pretty much the same by providing an anoxic or anaerobic environment for bacteria to live that convert nitrates into nitrogen gas.
Most hobbyists don't do water changes, and the Hi-Q system gives your fish continuing excellent water quality even without any water changes.

Hi-Q Fish Farming

We have just posted a video in our "For Commercial Use" media section. It describes the use of the Zero Water Change technology on highly advanced fish farms..

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I am Lai Yi Xiong, your host for the program.

I believe many of us have kept fishes before. Keeping fish can be an amazingly enjoyable hobby, but having to make periodic water changes is altogether a different issue. Taiwan's Hi-Q Bio-Tech International Ltd. has successfully invented a Permanent Zero Water Exchange Re-circulating Aqua System (ERAS). This technology has relieved aquaculture producers from pumping underground water and also enabled inland countries to start inland aquaculture of saltwater fish. More importantly, your home aquarium never needs to have its water changed again. In our program today we will be showing you this world's foremost technology.

A fish farmer for the past twenty-plus years, Lin Qing San has plentiful experience when it comes to the Taiwan Tilapia, also known as the mouthbreeder. Tricks of the trade passed down from his grandfather's generation are rendered obsolete ever since Lin Qing San joined the ranks of aquaculture technology last September. More than just a fisherman, he is now an aquaculture technology fish farmer. The key lies in Hi-Q's biological formula, the contents of which are more than seventy types of trace elements that allow the fish farm to thrive in its natural state.

Fishes' excretory waste contains ammonia and nitrogen, which when decomposed by bacteria, will produce poisonous nitrous acid. Nitrous acid accumulated in the enclosed fish farm will seriously affect the health conditions of the fishes. Hence, fish farmers have to annually sun the bottom of the pond to drain away water from the fish farm, remove the bottom layer of soil containing ammonia. Made up of various microbiological bacteria, the biological agent can rapidly dissolve toxins in the water and ensure ecological balance.

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First Zero Water Change Review

A couple of months ago we sent the guys at Maqo.org a kit to test out, and here are the results.

If you haven’t seen the first look at this amazing product check it out here.
When I first got the info on this product and started doing some research for the article I thought the goal was rather lofty. No matter what “system” you choose in this hobby; whether it be Jaubert, canister filters, skimmers, or any of the multitude of high tech solutions the one thing almost everyone agrees on is that water changes are something you just have to do. Nearly everyone also agrees that this is one of the most tedious maintenance tasks there is. If a new company with a new product could be able to eliminate this task they could lower the bar for entry into the hobby and even make it easier for those already in the hobby. Read on to find out more about this system and whether it can live up to the hype.

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