These micro pores allow air to pass through them with the greatest ease, creating a vast amount of micro bubbles—at an average size of 3 mm each—continuously in the water. micro bubbles maximize the surface area of the water, exposing more of it to the air where oxygen transfer takes place. This results in a significantly higher rate of oxygen transfer than conventional aeration systems.

Micro bubbles also take longer to rise in water and stay intact in water longer. This gives the bubbles prolonged exposure to the water, providing an abundance of dissolved oxygen through the bubble-water interface, as opposed to breaking at the surface and releasing the oxygen into the atmosphere.