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I have enjoyed reading this thread as i'm sure others who are learning have.....If you desire to proceed with k-1, you certainly can....BUT....you might want to consider some other input about your current situation.
If i understand your situation your looking to replace your j-mat with k-i as a biological filter because your j-mat is collecting wastes and difficult to clean.
Correct?
Many moons ago when I started using j-mat I had the same problem. I wrote my buddies in the UK who sent pictures of what they were doing....vortexes,up flow, and air stones well below the media so that the entire filter surface looked like a jacuzzi. Not a spec of dirt...not only was the air making an aroebic condition, it wouldn't allow detrius to settle anywhere. So I went and copied their treatment of j-mat and i have not cleaned or had to for the last few years.
suggestion: try putting some serious airstones a foot below your media and really boiling your chamber so that nothing settles. Give it a month or so...if it does not work to your satisfaction your gonna need the air and stones to
keep your k-i moving anyway. My pond is designed to deposit all wastes into a main sump that i dump daily and this does help the filtration to start with. Because I have 3 upflow j-mat vortexes in a row, the waste from the filter bacteria is easily dealt with by the heavy aireation.
This refinement of my system and the addition of a 24/7 trickle of fresh declorinated water made a gigantic improvement to the wellbeing of my filter system and water keeping. perhaps you could give it a try.....
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