Nitrate remover resin
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- Опубліковано 22 лют 2022
- In this video I installed a 'big' blue (7 litres) with Nitrate Remover Resin (5 litres) to eleminate the nitrate coming out of my tap water.
Osmotics:
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Vyair:
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Eden Koi Pond:
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These videos, reviews or any information given are from my own experiences of DIY, product trials, koi and pond keeping and may not be suitable for everyone.
Great results! how many litres can you pass through before you expect the resin to need changing? Does it also have a shelf life for those of us with smaller ponds and water changes and does it have a max flow rate for contact time?
Hi, thank you for watching and commenting. There are so very little information about it. I found a few info on French websites as they use it a lot. Probably because nitrate level are higher in France due to more farming lands around. They are also contradictional info regarding how long it will last, there are different info regarding the number of litres that can go through before it loses its performance. So for me, it will be a matter of testing the water coming out of the vessel. Shelf life, 3 years. Regarding the water flow, it's no diffferent than a carbon vessel, so around 3-5 litres per minutes. Mine comes from the carbon filter for chlorine to the resin, so 3 litres per minute.
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection 🙏 for that information. Water management can also be tricky for those of us with an uncovered pond so always good to know how we can improve parameters within our control so great work 👍🏻👍🏻
TTTHHHHHAAANNNNKKK YOU so much for this vid, my pond is finally 0nitrate, I’m running a pump inside my drum filter going into the resin and its taking the pond water and getting rid of the nitrates. I’ve used filter floss around the pump so that the resin stay clean from any debris.
That's fantastic! Well done. Glad you got no nitrates now, it's a pleasant feeling not to get any readings at all.
That’s absolutely brilliant Lau. I know that has been a real battle for you and your persistence to win has paid off. Happy koi happy Lau 🤗
Thank yiou Barbara. Hope all is well your end. Yes I am so pleased.
Another great informative video Lau, I’m really pleased for you that you are now on top of the nitrates.
Ponds looking crystal clear.. 👍🏻👍🏻🙌🏻
Thank you Phil, yes water quality is now spot on and where I wanted it to be. For the water clarity, it's like that all the time winter and summer, I have a lot of filtration on it.
Hi Lau that's brilliant pleased you have sorted the nitrate, thank you very interesting and very informative video, pond and fish are all looking fabulous, hope you are well x
Hi Katrina, all good my end thank you. Hope you are ok too and didnt have any damages with the storms
Congratulations Lau👏🥳👍, your perseverance has paid off and that small blue filled with that resin looks like it could be the answer to a lot of peoples prayers😊👍. Good to have the full report from your water company, I did the same but what amazed me was just how different the report was 6 months later🤔, just shows it’s worth getting regular reports so you can adjust your water keeping regime👍. Looking forward to seeing the next instalment from Magro Mansion👍😂😊.
Yes absolutely. I know a lot of people are using for tropical and reef tanks and some people for ponds.
May be your water report was different as 6 months later you were entering a new season adn water temp in tap water were different?
Next instalment... the logic one... protein skimmer.
Wicked job on sorting your issues hopefully now you can enjoy your little jewels more ☺👍
They were fine, at that level it wasnt major, but something I wanted to tackle now. Pleased with myself for once :-)
Hello, happy to see you success to obtain 0 nitrate but take care with résine.
Nitrate doesn’t just disappear but stay catched by the resine.
When it is saturated all nitrate could be realised into the pond.
It is possible to do a regeneration of the resine with a salt bath.
(J’espère que c’est compréhensible pour tes follower, je voudrais pas les faire fuir avec le français 😂)
Bon de toute façon c’est la frenchkoinection ici 😊
Bon soirée
(Oups j’avais pas entendu à la fin que tu donnais la combine du sel… 😅)
Moitié français, moitié anglais, ça marche pour moi 😀 oui tout à fait, je ne me sers plus de cette résine. Le nitrate à mon robinet et presque zéro. Mais j ai eu bien d autre problèmes depuis cet été avec l' eau ici. Mais bon, après des tests intensifs en laboratoire, j ai réussi à régler la situation. C'est une des recettes vidéos.
Great result. Glad you've got it sorted. Seems like a good product that resin 👍
Hi Danny, super impressed. I knew some people use it for reef and other tropical tanks, also for ponds so it was great to have a proper result.
Great info video!! Perseverance paid off in the end.. Excellent results. 😉👍
Really happy with that Andy.
Really enjoyable and informative video. Thanks Lau.
Thank you Steve, so pleased with the results
Hi Lau, bless ya 🙏🏼 no need to thank me im here anytime 😁 its me thats thankfull to you for all the advice you give me for my pond. So glad its worked for you and its worked really really well thats brilliant 😁😁😁😁😁😁
Look forward to meeting up with you soon, fish and pond are looking awesome 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Roll on spring 😎
It was only normal that I thanked you 🙂Looking forward to meeting you too!
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection
Thank you mate, see you real soon 👍🏼
Wow that's amazing I think I might add the same this year as my tap water is high in nitrate. Thanks for making this video 👌👍
Definitely something to consider if you have nitrate in the tap water. Checked my tap today and it was 30mg per litre 🙄
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection I haven't checked my tap water for a while so will do it again today but it's normally 20 from the tap
Great video 🙌 love your filtration system
Thank you for watching and for the comment. Basic filtration but works fantastic so far.
Hi lau thats looks like a good product I'm very lucky with my tap water levels but I'm sure that a lot of people will find this interesting. Have a great weekend Andy 😘
Hi Andy, Martin said he had 40mg per litre! And I am complaining because I have 20 😁
Very interesting as usual Lau stay well.
Thank you, much appreciated. Hope you are well.
Well done Lau, your looking very pleased with yourself lol, cheers 👍
yeah for once :-) Thanks Richard
Great video and useful information on nitrates
Thank you for watching John. Often not spoken about because it is not toxic... but to me, leaving it was part of an uncomplete nitrogen cycle.
Hi lau great video very interesting , that test kit still working well for you
All the best Mike
Hi Mike, thank you. Yes the JBL test kit is really amazing. Genuinely like it.
Great update Lau very interesting glad all is working well stay safe
Thank you Carol. Hope you are doing well.
It’s very interesting how resin works. Since watching this I’ve been watching videos on it’s mechanism. I’ve been feeding the same amount of food and changing the same amount of water over the last few months and I do notice that in January when the water is at its coldest the nitrate seems to be at its lowest. I should also check the nitrates in my water supply around this time of the year as our water treatment plant could be experiencing the same reduction of nitrates. Below 10 °C the nitrification rate sharply falls. Above 10 °C the rate of nitrification is almost directly proportional to the temperature. It does help to have the proper media as these types of media created micro bogs where bacteria is well protected from being washed out. When temperatures are colder these bacteria remains more active than the nitrifying bacteria.
Absolutely. Same here. In coldest temp the nitrate from tap water is lower. But I think this is mainly due because there is less activity in the agriculture lands around, which will have an effect on the nitrate and phosphate. In full summer, my tap water can have 40mg per litres. In winter, 20mg.
Love watching your videos Lau your so informative and you've taught us all so much and we'll done at getting to the 0 nitrates 👍
Thank you Jamie, we all help each other with our experience and trying things :-) So pleased with nitrates :-)
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection 😍😍
thats brilliant. i have high nitrates as you know so im going to have to give this a go
Really good stuff. It takes a while but it really worked for me. I just don't know yet how long the 5 litres will last but I am monitoring it.
Absolutely fabulous lau , very interesting, as you know I’m 40ppm straight out of the tap but my shower seem to cope with it very well but it’s something I will bear in mind , need to get a big blue for chlorine first instead or as well as the 3 stage , will be interesting to see if you notice any difference in the koi
Great informative video as usual 👍👍😀😀
The one thing I have noticed already is that the Tancho Showa is not pink anymore at all. He hasn't got the best of skin, but the pink has totally gone. He has always been pink since in the pond.
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection , that’s really interesting lau , I’m going to follow your progress with that over the next few weeks , was it exspensive ???
@@K.W.P.R it is a bit. And that was only 5 litres. But Vyair has a good price. £104 for 25 litres. I am monitoring how many litres I put through the 5 litres before its performance expires.
Nice vid! So efficient! I never had any elevated nitrate levels. Actually I would like to have your tap water to save me on potassium nitrate. :)
Thanks Magnus. And it's not too bad here. A friend of mine has got 40mg/l from his tap water
Easy funnel is to cut a 2lt bottle in half and use that as a funnel ,great for using around the pond ,i even have a small one in car idea for topping engine oil up ,quick and easy solution
Hi Peter, yeah I have done that before we we don't even have plastic bottle in this house! 🙂I have done it with paper too or cardboard box but I just grabbed my gutter cleaning instead :-)
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection yeah used paper too lol in desperation
@@peterspuddleskoiandgoldfish yeah I don't know what went through my mind with using the gutter cleaner 🤣
Excellent video Lau 👍
Hope you're well.
Stay safe.
All good this end thank you. Hope you guys are ok too. Thank you for the comment
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection We're all good thanks. Are you partaking in the Koi Diaries/Adam Byer G&S this year?
@@CBersPond hi, no, not taking part but I will come along like last year to meet people and video.
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection Same here.
@@CBersPond I'll see you there in June then, if not before elsewhere
Very interesting and informative video Lau, will his affect your plants and the bacteria growing in your filters. Will be interested to see what happens over the next few months. Stay safe and well 👍🏻
Hi Steven, plant wise, I dont know enough about how a low nitrate could affect which specific plant. The one thing I have seen is low nitrate will definitely affect the green of the watercress. In terms of bacteria in the filter, nitrate is the last part of the nitrogen cycle before nitrate to gas. So the anaerobic bacteria was definitely not big enough in my filtration hence why I added good ceramic media which is now converting the nitrate gradually. But in my case, everytime I top up the pond, I actual add nitrate as my tap water can varie from 20mg to 40mg depending on the time of the year (higher nitrate in summer in my tap water). The anaerobic bacteria will carry on the process of nitrite to nitrate, and I wont be adding nitrate anymore when I fill the pond back in. So no, no impact on the bacteria as the baceria, both aerobic and anaerobic are present and fully working.
Great update Lau really enjoy your videos can I ask what test kit your using?
Hi Sam, thank you. I am using the JBL test kit, I did a test and review a few videos ago. I highly recommend it.
As you say Lau you can cut a little hear and there but the water quality cant be cut and what you use to filter the bio on your water wants to be the best you can stretch to very interesting that resin keep us posted on it
Thank you Martyn - yes will do. I am awaiting to see how long the resin is actually efficient for till I have to change it. So keeping a log on average of litres of water change I do.
Will a veggie filter with watercress and Flag Iris do the same thing organically ?
it would help to consume some of the nitrate in the pond but definitely not tackle the nitrate from the tap.
Hi Lau what is the difference between white and black resin and what is the white resin called leaning something new every day
hi, the colour of the vessel is just a colour, depending where you buy it or what you prefer. My black vessel is full of carbon to remove the chlorine (carbon is black). The blue vessel is full of the Nitrate remover resin that I have installed and shown in the video, to remove the nitrate from the tap water (white micro beads).
Hi Lau, and well done. Thank you for a very informative video, really interesting. Your pond and koi look amazing. Would you say the reduction, in the first place, of nitrates was down to the Mountain Tree media? I'm building a bakki shower, as you may know, and was thinking of having one tray with the Mountain Tree in it. Take care, Terry.
Thank Terry, means a lot. The first reduction was definitely down to the media, especially as the tap water the past few weeks was at almost 40 mg per litre. The media was definitely doing its job. But the Mountain Tree was a very limited amount of media compared to the Filter Pro media. Looking deeply in the composition and structure of the 2 media, and also how they cope with time and also water pressure, I would only got for Filter Pro :-)
Thanks Lau, really appreciated. Keep up the good work. Take care and stay safe, Terry.
@@Wrighty Terry, when are you replugging your protein skimmer? Would you say that the protein skimmer needs to have a filter before?
I'm going to leave it a bit longer, 2 or 3 weeks and then strike it up again. I like to have a filter before it, so the protein skimmer can concentrate on the proteins in the water. Some do run them straight from the pond. I must say, I've not tried it on unfiltered water. Terry.
@@Wrighty Thank you Terry, Very useful.
Lau Do you mind me asking you where you purchased it from so I get the right product thanks
Hi David, I have put all the links in the description. Vyair is normally the place I go to but they only had large bags. Osmotics uk were selling it in smaller containers and bags. Hope this helps.
Thought you was going to say a dog with a boner 😂 Great video as always, informative and helpful and always nice to be able to watch and learn 👍🏼 Glad the sign hadn’t fallen to bits 😂 meilleurs voeux et à bientôt
I had to goggle what that meant... you are teaching me bad language haha. Beautoful, I will never thank you enough for making me a beautiful plaque. Love it.
Very informative video as always. Thanks Lau. I'll have to see if there is anything similar here in Canada and if not can it be shipped and imported into Canada from the UK. Cheers.
Thank you Ken, you have probems with nitrates too then?
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection Water out of the tap is pretty much zero but I always have low levels of Nitrate in the pond. Problem here is our pond season is only about 6 -7 months in a good year and because everything is shut down over the winter the filters have to be restarted every spring just like brand new filters so it takes time for all of the bacteria to get fully functional. I was wondering if adding the resin directly into the filter system (in a fine enough bag of course) would take care of the nitrate.
@@mykoiobsession hi Ken. I personally don't think it would, as the nitrate resin only neutralises the nitrate as you trickle the water to top up your pond.
I don't know how you do things when you transfer your fish indoors. Is the water permanently in the indoor pond or do you fill it up for each winter? Or do you fill the indoor with the water from outdoor? Is there any media that you can use from outside in the indoor filtration system?
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection The indoor pond runs all year long to house my sturgeon. Prior to moving the fish outdoors I do transfer some of the water from the indoor pond outdoors and do transfer some of the media as well to help jump start the filters as well as using additional liquid bacteria. I also move the koi out, a couple at a time, over a period of about two weeks to allow the filters to adjust to the fish load.
@@mykoiobsession I see. Hmm. Difficult one. But no I don't think personally think that it would help. The only way, but then some people might have experience in that, would be to install a succession of 5 or 6 or more large vessels full of nitrate resin and turn over the entire pond for weeks to let the filters catch up. But that would be a massive set up and very very expensive.
It sounds a bit like zeolite but for Nitrate. Especially as it is recharged by salt
Absolutely, same principle, just differnet organic and structure
good day. i too am now all of the sudden battling high nitrate from my tap. is the resin you are using the same as de-ionizing resin? How long or how much water passes through before the need to recharge it.
Hi, I don't use it anymore as our tap water nitrate has gone to 10mg/l so we are lucky. Yes it is the same as de-ionizing resin. It's the one people use in reef tanks (and cleaning windows) for 5 litres of resin, around 3000 litres of water would go through before either needing to be recharged or changed. Very slow flow, around 2 litres per minute max.
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection thank u for speedy reply i appreciate it very much.
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection i manage to try it last night. I got some resin and put it in a laundry mesh bag. I just used a soda bottle with holes in the bottle and an airstone to make a rudimentary air lift system. i then used a 20 liter bucket and i ran it for approx 8 hours. This morning from 80ppm to 0 ppm. shocked that it worked quite well.
@@guadaguppy4798 that quick? That's really good. I would just be careful of the mesh bag as the grain if the resin are very small, you wouldn't want them to go in the fish gills, regardless of the fish you are keeping. A small blue might be better. You can also buy a three stage dechlorinate unit, and buy 1 cartridge of paper for the first one, followed by two cartridge of nitrate remover resin. Works the same.
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection Well its just a small 20li bucket with airlift
Wow Lau that's brilliant. Is your blue vessel 19.5 inches high by 8 inches diameter ? Going to buy tomorrow. 👍
Hi Phil, sorry I am rubbish with inches... It's a 7 litre vessel.
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection Did you buy vessel from Finch filteration Lau ?
@@philbosher6959 no Phil, I got the black one from Vyair at the last show and the new blue one from eBay. Vyair does roughly the same prices.
What is that resin made of?
Hi, this one is food grade resin. If you look on the Osmotics website (UK site) it explains what is in.
Very impressed my nitrate out of my tap is 80+ coming from my tap ?? Love your videos can you tell me where I get the resin and filter from thanks
Hi Jane. 80+? You need to contact your water provider as the max allowed in the UK is 50mg per litre. I would really recommend talking to them so they can come and test your water.
If you look in the video description, I have put links where you can get it. Please keep me up to date as I am really interested
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection we can’t believe it so high lau I will on there case tomorrow. But I don’t what koi getting anymore stressed so what to get the big blue plus resin on ASAP so if you can let me know best place to buy I would really appreciate it
@@janepettis3891 what is the nitrate in your pond?
They won't get stressed because of high nitrate, or kill them like if you high ammonia or nitrite, but long term it will affect them, have an impact on their growth, appetite, reproduction and can make them pink. It will also completely unbalance the water chemistry and you might end up with blanket weed.
Look in the video description, there are a few links there. But if it truly 80 mg per litre in your tap water, then there is a major problem and I would start from there. Is your water test kit still in date?
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection yes it that high lau I been on to water board they are going to contact me tomorrow morning we are always getting water leaks around here and they are always repairing pipes on road and other local roads it’s disgusting really as very dangerous for children and pregnant women so hopefully they will get there finger out now and repair properly I will try and send you pictures of results
@@janepettis3891 not good. When they do the water test, show them (on Google) the nitrate max limit for the UK.
I've ordered it with vyair small bag but not cheap but if it keeps fish happy that what matters
HI David, you sure you bought the right one? Vyair, I think, only sell 25 litre bag of nitrate remover resin.
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection small bags arrived today pond as no nitrate problems a the moment but i think it will a good idear for the summer months
@@dianabrandon5291 good to be ready
Hi great vid, can you recharge this resin?
Hi, yes you can recharge it with salt, but then need to flush it for apparently 12h.. seems a lot of wasted water to me
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection thanks for quick reply can I ask, i have a goldfish pond and was thinking about the same process as you but having a pump in the pond going through the vessel back into the pond is this possible?
@@djbanger hi, this resin is to remove the nitrate coming out of your tap water when you top up. It's not a filter.
So you have a pump in your pond, presumably that goes to a filter and the. Back into your pond?
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection I have a drum filter so I can have the pump in the clean section of the drum filter so dirt is not going into the vessel and just removing the nitrates in the water. Will this work?
@@djbanger I really wouldn't able to advise on the benefits of that. What you are saying makes sense. Have you got nitrates at the source then?
lol the nitrate again? if you nitrate comes from your tap water you should look to get your pond water from somewhere else I never seen as bad nitrate problems as yours in normal ponds nitrate gets dealt with by it self with a trickle in but in your case you keep adding it in with your tap water but I don't think everyone needs to go as hard on the ceramic media as you are, it is a rare case
Thank you for your message. Well in my case, the media is doing it's job and now I have tackled the nitrate at the source. Going from 30-60 to 0 surely is a result? Lots of people do work with media, people do have massive showers full of media, I havent no where near what a lot of people have in their showers.
When you said "big blue," did you mean the white powder? Is this a water conditioner made from calcium carbonate powder? I think there are other ways to lower nitrates and nitrites more easily. I think a combination of bottom drain of the sewage and injecting fresh water is the easiest.
What is the temperature of the water?
I recently had a water quality test done as well. Check out the following video.
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Hi and thank you for watching. This is to remove the nitrate from my tap water.
I see. Thanks. Don't you use bottom drain?
@@user-ch7yl1tp3g yes, I have a retro bottom drain in the middle of the pond.