Tetra Pond FilterStart activates your pond filter and extends intervals between cleaning. The product contains a blend of sludge-reducing cleaning bacteria and highly active filter bacteria, which break down harmful substances and reduce pollutants like nitrite and ammonium. This bacteria is essential to maintaining good water quality and a healthy biological balance, not to mention breaking down organic substances in the filter that build up from fish waste and foliage. The FilterStart will increase your pond filter's service life and is perfect for preventing contamination in your filter, especially when pond season starts (in spring) and after you have cleaned your pond or applied a medical treatment.