Patent ID: 9445580
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: A01K,C02F

Claim Text:
1. An aquarium water treatment device comprising: a housing, said housing having a top and a bottom, said bottom being closed; a partition, said partition having a border complimentary to an inner perimeter of said housing, said partition being frictionally coupled to a wall of said housing proximate to said bottom, defining a lower chamber and an upper chamber; a plurality of penetrations, said penetrations being positioned in said partition; a pump, said pump being submersible, said pump having an intake, wherein said intake is positionable in an aquarium containing water requiring treatment, said pump having an outflow, said outflow being fluidically connected to said lower chamber; a nozzle, said nozzle being positioned proximate to said top, said nozzle being fluidically connected to said upper chamber; a coagulation promoter, said coagulation promoter being inorganic; a flocculation promoter, said flocculation promoter comprising a polyelectrolyte; and wherein said pump is configured to transfer water requiring treatment from an aquarium to said lower chamber, and wherein said coagulation promoter and said flocculation promoter can be added as required to said housing such that solids in the water are induced by to form a sludge bed above and below said partition, such that clarified water flows through said nozzle back into the aquarium.