I use matrix in a reactor, super low flow about 40gph and the pump is right at the bottom of the tank where there is hardly any current. Also I cover the reactor to stop sunlight from hitting the media, bacteria like dark environments as the uv rays kill them off. All this results in barely hitting 5ppm nitrate and that's when I do really heavy feeding on weekends! Great video mate!
Cheap way to get anaerobic bacteria: Marina Hang-On Breeding Box large $13, 2 pounds of ceramic rings or whatever media you want $10, the WEAKEST air pump you can find $10. If the air pump is too strong, use an T spliter to reduce flow to the breeding box.
use imagitarium aquatic substrate sand, 2.5 inches thick. 40lbs of Texas holy rock. 10 pounds of Caribbean exotica south seas base rocks, and one foam bubbler… although I don’t think the bubbler does anything.. I clean it with city tap every 4-6 weeks. I literally hold 5-15ppm nitrates at all times.. I have a simple pf75 whisper filter using the pf-L cartridges.. I switched to making my own pads recently. I believe the sand, and both type of rocks have helped in developing the bacteria needed.. I have not tried but I could probably go months with no water change, even with this amount of fish, thanks the the bacteria. Yes I use strips for quick test and also drop testing.. Soon I will convert to a fluval fx6 filter.. but that’s just for water quality and movement for the fish. Great video, you explained everything very well. Great work!
Clay balls and laterite, the laterite attracts the ions to help culture the bacteria, the clay grows it and is why plants grow stupid in it. Takes 60 days plus to culture is done in ponds.
plenum made of a 1 inch media layer covered with an aquarium safe screening mesh. the put your substrate on top of the screening mesh. I like plastic media cuz it lasts a long time and cushions the bottom glass from the heavy rocks and wood I use in my tanks. rather then the screen mesh you can use an UGF that has flat plates and don't hook it up. the other thing to consider is water current do to temperature. so I've been thinking about adding a lamp under my tank. my thinking is, as warm water rises, which should pull cooler water in the plenum creating a slow current. if that works I may get heat coils to go on the bottom of the tank then build the plenum.
Modt effective way to do that is with a UGF essentially creating Anoxic filtration. I watched alot of Dr. Novak and the science behind it makes perfect sense, biomedia under the Plates, thinner plates on top of the UGF followed by a Clay, laterite, soil and Fluval stratum or sand topping of your choice. It's the most natural layering in an Aquarium you can do.
plenum with biohome ultimate covered by fiberglass window screen then substrate I used pvc pipe with plastic light diffuser as the plenum, then screen then substrate works good takes 2 or 3 months for nitrate reduction
Hi! First of all, thank you for A) answering my question about Nitrates and B) for your excellent video and clear explanation as to how to go about reducing them. I have been fighting with very high Nitrate levels for years. I have a 95 litre tank, with echo complete substrate, which has been running for about 4 years. It's planted but maybe not heavily. I have internal AquaEl filters and, like you say, the water flow is quite fast with lots of surface movement. I read the other day that Anaerobic bacteria hates oxygen and now, thanks to you, I may have a solution ...maybe LOL! May I ask, given my setup, what would you advise me to do and, with which media? Thanks for taking the time to read this and I wish you well, Lynne.
The proper thing to do would be place the bag of media under your substrate.. or simply spread some along your tank under your substrate.. this is the concept behind the Japanese subrate concept.. using many different varying things for a layered substrate.. you can also simply build up your substrate to 3-4” thick..
I'm using underwater gravel filters with blue/white 2-sided bonded mat on top and then Cichlid substrate on top of the mat. I'm hoping the mat will slow the water flow to allow the anaerobic bacteria to get started. in the substrate, the filfer material, and the UGF. I have some Laterite coming and I'm going to make a basket like Dr. Novack describes. If it weren't for having to tear everything apart I would try to make a pancake setup of laterite, kitty litter substrate on top of my UGF. Time will tell if it will work. Let me know your thoughts on my setup as I'm always open to new ideas. The funny thing is back in the 1960s I used UGF filters with the old plastic in the aquarium filters and never had any fish die until my son caught a small native brook trout and put it in the aquarium. It cleaned house on everything. Back to filters, the UGF and the cheapy filter that came with the set did a good job. I only cleaned my tank about once a year. I had a Betta, some Cardinals, and Gouramis in that tank. We knew nothing of the nitrogen cycle and had no real problems. Now I have Cichlids and I'm not having any problem with losing fish. I did cycle my tanks and I'm using API products so far. I have everything licked but the nitrate but the water changing takes care of that but it gets to me and I want to get the nitrate problem taken care of. without so much water changing.
Very good video. I learned a couple new things too and some ideas to try. It's too bad every good, informative video has a few knuckleheads in the comments section.
canister made from 10 gallon bucket that uses fountain pump for slow water flow? If height of bucket to height of tank is adjusted to assist burden of fountain pump?
Check out biohome ultimate media. That's great media that grows aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. It's really helping to keep the nitrate levels down in my tank. The outside part of the media is not very dense with holds all the aerobic bacteria and the center is very dense with allows for anaerobic bacteria to grow. Just my two cents.
Just stick to natural lava rocks dude. That seachem matrix bio media is a bit too expensive for my taste or everybody's taste for just a small portions of it. You can hold more anaerobic bacteria with natural cheap highly porous lava rocks used for grilling..
I just came across your video and noticed it's 3 years old. Did you accomplish a sufficient growth of the anaerobic bacteria, or come across any other applications on creating an environment for it? I liked the video and subscribed! Hope to see more to come... 👍😎👍 - Shain
I like your idea but my thought is that if the matrix or biomax or whatever are buried under the sand where water and oxygen can't reach them, then even if you get anaerobic bacterial growth, how can they remove the nitrates from the water if they're not in contact with the water?
Wow, so I'm reading the difference between pumice stone and lava rock (scoria)... Google says that lava rock has more iron, calcium, and magnesium, while pumice has more sodium, so maybe lava rock would be even better, not just for Dr. Kevin Novak's Biological Clarification Baskets, but also, a plenum? Now, I wonder how the Special Kitty Natural Clay Cat Litter, Unscented, and Non-Clumping, compares to all this?... Trying to make things as efficient as possible, but also as cheap as possible.
I going to run my new 300litre tank with undergravel with 1 buck of pond matrix on the plates and aragonite over the top. Air driven. Obviously with external filter as well because I have high bio load of fish.
Hi, can you give an update...i see this video is nearly three years old and since then have you tested the nitrate level of your tank with the matrix lying in the surface? any difference?
You can only grow as much bacteria as your tank can support with its main food source ammonia. And it dosnt have to be no water flow at all you can have a gentle current. And sea chem de nitrate is just ceramic pieces that allow bacteria to grow same stuff that grows on that grows everywhere in tank. It also traps small particles and ends up causing nitrate. Better off bare bottom tank keep ammonia down and what little you get will be able to be handled by your B.B in tank.
I colonise my new filter media in a container and let it absorb the anaerobic bactearia before i add it to sump because oxygen will wipe anaerobic out I have a 100 ltrs an hours refugium separate chamber I have took the cheeto out waist of space that stuff I use biohome it absorbs the full bottle of Brightwell anaerobic bactearia
absolutely agree with you on your theory, I'm actuly playing with a diy filtration at the moment , once I get my filtration how I want it I will build a permanent houseing for it, I'm toying with the denitrate part now, I have a theory very close to yours just little diffrent application, but regarding dead bead in the tank I had a lot of lava rock so i crushed it up in to pea size pices and put about 2 inches on the bottom of the tank then put about 2 inches of fine gravel on top I figued I'd give it a try,
Wouldn't this bacteria grow in built up areas of the tank, like when you aquascape a hill with rock and then put the soil and plants in that area? The area under and between the rocks would get very little oxygen and low water flow if any.
What if you took a bucket loaded with nitrifying bacteria and set it next to your aquarium. There would be no air stone in the bucket and would be dark. Within the bucket media would be added. Then via a hose hook up a pump to gently circulate water from the tank to the bucket and another hose leading back to the tank. This might be a means of creating anaerobic bacteria in large quantities. I'm a newbie to aquariums. Let me know what you think?
Hi, I bought bioHome filter media and added to my tanks filterbox. Within 3 weeks I have NO nitrates' Zero, zilth, nada. And my plants are now not doing well. There is little info on this subject. I also started dosing the tank with nitrogen and still am not getting readings. I wrote the make of BioHome and asked him about using it in a planted tank (should have don that first maybe) anyway I got NO answer at all to whether this would affect my plants. Now I have pulled that media and left the other standard bio media and still no nitrates. Oddly algae is growing like a beast! (Prior to BioHome, I had plenty of nitrates). Can you possibly shed any light on if the media is what was affecting my plants? Thanks in advance for any help! FYI I left the matrix and fluvals biomedia...should I try pulling the matrix? Is that possibly growing aenorobic bacteria? It didn't have any affect on nitrates...only when I added BioHome did the nitrates dissapear. I really just want healthy plants.
Thinking about the full chemistry of anaerobic bacteria in an aquarium. It seams to me that this bacteria will produce hydrogen sulfide and methane gas. How do these by-products affect the fish? H2S is toxic for sure, depends on what level they appear in the water. Background info at www.americanaquariumproducts.com/Nitrogen_Cycle.html
Hornwart in a separate sump tank? My idea is growing plants in a separate filtration system to keep the unwanted flora taking up room in the display tank
The sand IS matrix essentially, you don't need to replace it with biomedia bc it already is And tbh it's more surface area bc it doesn't have really any space bn the grains as opposed to a bunch of pumice rocks
I'm trying a reactor that I hung on the side of the tank. It's full of 2L of de-nitrate and I've turned the pump flow way down. I've put a sponge filter on the pump to keep the pump and the reactor somewhat free of debris. I've hung it on the side because I have a tall tank and I would need a much higher flow rate if it was in the base to push the water all the way back to the tank. We'll see how it goes.
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Man! It must have been a very, VERY long day to grow that much facial/throat hair.
4:36 Am sticking to my lava rocks since it's super porous and can hold lots and lots of anaerobic bacteria for my predatory leech tank that doesn't really need oxygen, except i do have live plants in there to cleanup my leeches bio loads.
I just remove sponge filters and use them as my low flow. Get a box with holes. Everytime u clean your filters u do it in a bowl with tank water and dump it into te box. The idea those aerobic bacterias will die and consume oxygen whichever come first. You must do it in a green tank with algea growing and plenty of fishes excreting ammonia thr. their gills. Needless to say nitrates for the anaerobic will be present. The anaerobic bacterias will break down the nitrate for their oxygen needs.
I've been using sunsun 603b canister filters with Seachem de*nitrate on a low flow setting for 2 years and my nitrates have never been lower! Took about 4 months for the bugs to start denitrifying but once they started to work my nitrates have been very low. Cheers
you forgot about most important thing . you have to use a some kind of carbon source to make this working - you need to feed this bacteria to make it working ( for example vodka, sugar, vinegar) without food this bacteria will grow so slow with almost no impact for your nitrates consumption . when you start adding carbon source to your fresh water aquarium tou going to make a mess because we cant use protein skimmer . the other way is biopelets or the best way to do it in your fresh water aquarium is sulfur media reactor . sulfur contains food for this kind of bacteria and will not mess with your water.you have to just watch ph and adjust it .
I thought aerobic and anaerobic is the same bacteria just consuming different chemicals? Check out my playlist Jay's video series is awesome. I'm thinking of a hang on the back DIY canister filled with pool sand, with the intake at the bottom of the tank (thanks to your video) and the out let being a pipe 1/2 up the tank with a air stone so the bubbles pull the water through and neutralizing the byproduct of the anaerobic. Anyway Jay's aquarium explains that very well.
Just do a water change simple Why make it so complicated By doing a water change has a lot more benefits not just reducing nitrates but replenishing all minerals that the fish consume U can never duplicate nature no matter how big ur glass box is or how clever you think you are Just my opinion take it how you want
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The Best Most Knowledgeable person I found out there IS THE "Pondguru" On the UA-cam! He came up with the BEST media and gravel out there "Biohome" to achieve the "TRUE Cycle" !!! If anyone wants more inform about proper filtration in order to achieve a TRUE Complete Cycle and ultimately the ONLY WAY fish can be the complete happiness and HEALTHINESS!!! Happy Day!
Yes that’s the media we should go for. I use the Biohome Ultimate and place a bag at the bottom of the tank. This version of Biohome media includes nutrients in each pallet that promotes the growth of both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria in the pallets that helps reduce ammonia, nitrites and nitrates significantly, thus achieving higher stock level and reduce water changing frequency.
Daniel Sun to be honest, you're not entirely far off. I watch a lot of news. So there's an endless stream of politics. I don't really discuss politics cuz that's really not my speciality in any way shape or form. However, after watching so much news that of course involves our presidents, I started accidentally mimicking his gestures.🤣 I did the same thing subconsciously of Adam Jensen from Deus Ex mankind divided as well.😂
I use matrix in a reactor, super low flow about 40gph and the pump is right at the bottom of the tank where there is hardly any current. Also I cover the reactor to stop sunlight from hitting the media, bacteria like dark environments as the uv rays kill them off. All this results in barely hitting 5ppm nitrate and that's when I do really heavy feeding on weekends! Great video mate!
Cheap way to get anaerobic bacteria: Marina Hang-On Breeding Box large $13, 2 pounds of ceramic rings or whatever media you want $10, the WEAKEST air pump you can find $10. If the air pump is too strong, use an T spliter to reduce flow to the breeding box.
Genius！
use imagitarium aquatic substrate sand, 2.5 inches thick. 40lbs of Texas holy rock. 10 pounds of Caribbean exotica south seas base rocks, and one foam bubbler… although I don’t think the bubbler does anything.. I clean it with city tap every 4-6 weeks.
I literally hold 5-15ppm nitrates at all times.. I have a simple pf75 whisper filter using the pf-L cartridges.. I switched to making my own pads recently.
I believe the sand, and both type of rocks have helped in developing the bacteria needed.. I have not tried but I could probably go months with no water change, even with this amount of fish, thanks the the bacteria. Yes I use strips for quick test and also drop testing..
Soon I will convert to a fluval fx6 filter.. but that’s just for water quality and movement for the fish.
Great video, you explained everything very well. Great work!
Clay balls and laterite, the laterite attracts the ions to help culture the bacteria, the clay grows it and is why plants grow stupid in it. Takes 60 days plus to culture is done in ponds.
plenum made of a 1 inch media layer covered with an aquarium safe screening mesh. the put your substrate on top of the screening mesh. I like plastic media cuz it lasts a long time and cushions the bottom glass from the heavy rocks and wood I use in my tanks. rather then the screen mesh you can use an UGF that has flat plates and don't hook it up. the other thing to consider is water current do to temperature. so I've been thinking about adding a lamp under my tank. my thinking is, as warm water rises, which should pull cooler water in the plenum creating a slow current. if that works I may get heat coils to go on the bottom of the tank then build the plenum.
easy way would be : a sand bed of 8- 9 cm thick on top of a plenum ( 1-2cm high) , works wonderful since 20 years on my tank , and zero nitrates ;-)
For what porpoise do you put the sand on the plenum ?
@@DEXTER-TV-series To prevent oxygen entering the bottom of the substrate. Creating an anaerobic zone where anearobic bacteria can breath and live.
Yes that is around 4-5" of total substrate. Only problem is such thick substrate looks bad.
Modt effective way to do that is with a UGF essentially creating Anoxic filtration. I watched alot of Dr. Novak and the science behind it makes perfect sense, biomedia under the Plates, thinner plates on top of the UGF followed by a Clay, laterite, soil and Fluval stratum or sand topping of your choice. It's the most natural layering in an Aquarium you can do.
I know Dr. Kevin Novack knows those things.
plenum with biohome ultimate covered by fiberglass window screen then substrate I used pvc pipe with plastic light diffuser as the plenum, then screen then substrate works good takes 2 or 3 months for nitrate reduction
Hi! First of all, thank you for A) answering my question about Nitrates and B) for your excellent video and clear explanation as to how to go about reducing them. I have been fighting with very high Nitrate levels for years. I have a 95 litre tank, with echo complete substrate, which has been running for about 4 years. It's planted but maybe not heavily. I have internal AquaEl filters and, like you say, the water flow is quite fast with lots of surface movement. I read the other day that Anaerobic bacteria hates oxygen and now, thanks to you, I may have a solution ...maybe LOL! May I ask, given my setup, what would you advise me to do and, with which media? Thanks for taking the time to read this and I wish you well, Lynne.
Great vid very interesting, what about a thin layer of matrix with gravel or sand on top?
The proper thing to do would be place the bag of media under your substrate.. or simply spread some along your tank under your substrate.. this is the concept behind the Japanese subrate concept.. using many different varying things for a layered substrate.. you can also simply build up your substrate to 3-4” thick..
Fish R Relaxing ...Agreed 100%. This is the old school and most effective way of doing it.
I'm using underwater gravel filters with blue/white 2-sided bonded mat on top and then Cichlid substrate on top of the mat. I'm hoping the mat will slow the water flow to allow the anaerobic bacteria to get started. in the substrate, the filfer material, and the UGF. I have some Laterite coming and I'm going to make a basket like Dr. Novack describes. If it weren't for having to tear everything apart I would try to make a pancake setup of laterite, kitty litter substrate on top of my UGF. Time will tell if it will work. Let me know your thoughts on my setup as I'm always open to new ideas.
The funny thing is back in the 1960s I used UGF filters with the old plastic in the aquarium filters and never had any fish die until my son caught a small native brook trout and put it in the aquarium. It cleaned house on everything. Back to filters, the UGF and the cheapy filter that came with the set did a good job. I only cleaned my tank about once a year. I had a Betta, some Cardinals, and Gouramis in that tank. We knew nothing of the nitrogen cycle and had no real problems. Now I have Cichlids and I'm not having any problem with losing fish. I did cycle my tanks and I'm using API products so far. I have everything licked but the nitrate but the water changing takes care of that but it gets to me and I want to get the nitrate problem taken care of. without so much water changing.
under gravel filter with power heads sand a least 6 inches deep your nitrate will reduce
i agree, even though ive read that in rivers its 12 inches into the gravel/dirt you'll find the anoxic environment
I'm no expert but wouldn't the pours on the media at the bottom of tank get clogged up, making it ineffective.
Very good video. I learned a couple new things too and some ideas to try. It's too bad every good, informative video has a few knuckleheads in the comments section.
canister made from 10 gallon bucket that uses fountain pump for slow water flow? If height of bucket to height of tank is adjusted to assist burden of fountain pump?
Check out biohome ultimate media. That's great media that grows aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. It's really helping to keep the nitrate levels down in my tank. The outside part of the media is not very dense with holds all the aerobic bacteria and the center is very dense with allows for anaerobic bacteria to grow. Just my two cents.
IECStang What about dumping some pothos roots in. They eat up nitrates like crazy.
Biohome ultimate. This will do a proper full cycle
I use this in my tanks, once seasoned I don't see nitrates climb at all.
It is all depends on oxygen, the lower, the better. The low water flow is one of way to have a lower oxygen.
If you put it as an substrate it will clog in time. Perhaps if you make a DIY canister filter with low flow and mechanically filtered?
5 years later....... what is your update on this? That was a great point bro! I wonder what happened 🤔
Just stick to natural lava rocks dude. That seachem matrix bio media is a bit too expensive for my taste or everybody's taste for just a small portions of it. You can hold more anaerobic bacteria with natural cheap highly porous lava rocks used for grilling..
Nice video bro , i already got some plan based on your explanation of your theory . Anyway , have u tried this method ?
Been doing this for months now ,
also put large lava rock in tank the fish love it
I just came across your video and noticed it's 3 years old.
Did you accomplish a sufficient growth of the anaerobic bacteria, or come across any other applications on creating an environment for it?
I liked the video and subscribed! Hope to see more to come...
👍😎👍
- Shain
Hi shain , have u tried method like this video ?
I like your idea but my thought is that if the matrix or biomax or whatever are buried under the sand where water and oxygen can't reach them, then even if you get anaerobic bacterial growth, how can they remove the nitrates from the water if they're not in contact with the water?
Look up this guy's UA-cam postings: Kevin Novak
Yeah this guy needs some schooling lol
How about a sulphur nitrate reactor just an idea
Seachem Matrix = Pumice Stone ... Thank me later
If you look at my newer videos, I've already got a tank full of the stuff as substrate. Home Depot and Menards got good prices on that stuff
Thank you, but what about De-Nitrate? Is it just smaller pumice stone?
Wow, so I'm reading the difference between pumice stone and lava rock (scoria)... Google says that lava rock has more iron, calcium, and magnesium, while pumice has more sodium, so maybe lava rock would be even better, not just for Dr. Kevin Novak's Biological Clarification Baskets, but also, a plenum? Now, I wonder how the Special Kitty Natural Clay Cat Litter, Unscented, and Non-Clumping, compares to all this?... Trying to make things as efficient as possible, but also as cheap as possible.
Mark Fleener 🤔
I going to run my new 300litre tank with undergravel with 1 buck of pond matrix on the plates and aragonite over the top. Air driven. Obviously with external filter as well because I have high bio load of fish.
Hi, can you give an update...i see this video is nearly three years old and since then have you tested the nitrate level of your tank with the matrix lying in the surface? any difference?
stick a pothos plant in your tank, that'll suck up nitrates (supposedly)
You can only grow as much bacteria as your tank can support with its main food source ammonia. And it dosnt have to be no water flow at all you can have a gentle current. And sea chem de nitrate is just ceramic pieces that allow bacteria to grow same stuff that grows on that grows everywhere in tank. It also traps small particles and ends up causing nitrate. Better off bare bottom tank keep ammonia down and what little you get will be able to be handled by your B.B in tank.
I colonise my new filter media in a container and let it absorb the anaerobic bactearia before i add it to sump because oxygen will wipe anaerobic out I have a 100 ltrs an hours refugium separate chamber I have took the cheeto out waist of space that stuff I use biohome it absorbs the full bottle of Brightwell anaerobic bactearia
absolutely agree with you on your theory, I'm actuly playing with a diy filtration at the moment , once I get my filtration how I want it I will build a permanent houseing for it, I'm toying with the denitrate part now, I have a theory very close to yours just little diffrent application, but regarding dead bead in the tank I had a lot of lava rock so i crushed it up in to pea size pices and put about 2 inches on the bottom of the tank then put about 2 inches of fine gravel on top I figued I'd give it a try,
That bird poop on his jacket is very distracting :(
the birds are nesting in the beard
Wouldn't this bacteria grow in built up areas of the tank, like when you aquascape a hill with rock and then put the soil and plants in that area? The area under and between the rocks would get very little oxygen and low water flow if any.
If you have sand substrate it is easier to get anaerobic conditions and the deeper the better.
What if you took a bucket loaded with nitrifying bacteria and set it next to your aquarium. There would be no air stone in the bucket and would be dark. Within the bucket media would be added. Then via a hose hook up a pump to gently circulate water from the tank to the bucket and another hose leading back to the tank. This might be a means of creating anaerobic bacteria in large quantities.
I'm a newbie to aquariums. Let me know what you think?
nice thinking. how about an inch of se cam bottom layer and 2 inch of top layer sand
Hi, I bought bioHome filter media and added to my tanks filterbox. Within 3 weeks I have NO nitrates' Zero, zilth, nada. And my plants are now not doing well. There is little info on this subject. I also started dosing the tank with nitrogen and still am not getting readings. I wrote the make of BioHome and asked him about using it in a planted tank (should have don that first maybe) anyway I got NO answer at all to whether this would affect my plants. Now I have pulled that media and left the other standard bio media and still no nitrates. Oddly algae is growing like a beast! (Prior to BioHome, I had plenty of nitrates). Can you possibly shed any light on if the media is what was affecting my plants? Thanks in advance for any help! FYI I left the matrix and fluvals biomedia...should I try pulling the matrix? Is that possibly growing aenorobic bacteria? It didn't have any affect on nitrates...only when I added BioHome did the nitrates dissapear. I really just want healthy plants.
Maybe have different layers of different substrate for diferent bacteria.
Instead of putting the matrix in a mesh bag, can you just substitute your gravel for matrix as your substrate?
gmlasam I tried this and the only drawback is that it is very light and tends to move very easily.
Isn't this what his entire video was about? lol
Now you have to address the sulfate issue you will have n need a bacteria to get rid of that
Adding more substrate like four five inches maybe and use eco complete or home depot sand rock or whatever and that should probably help idk
Thinking about the full chemistry of anaerobic bacteria in an aquarium. It seams to me that this bacteria will produce hydrogen sulfide and methane gas. How do these by-products affect the fish? H2S is toxic for sure, depends on what level they appear in the water. Background info at www.americanaquariumproducts.com/Nitrogen_Cycle.html
please tell me you got to do this. Subscribed! 😄
Hornwart in a separate sump tank? My idea is growing plants in a separate filtration system to keep the unwanted flora taking up room in the display tank
The sand IS matrix essentially, you don't need to replace it with biomedia bc it already is
And tbh it's more surface area bc it doesn't have really any space bn the grains as opposed to a bunch of pumice rocks
I'm trying a reactor that I hung on the side of the tank. It's full of 2L of de-nitrate and I've turned the pump flow way down. I've put a sponge filter on the pump to keep the pump and the reactor somewhat free of debris. I've hung it on the side because I have a tall tank and I would need a much higher flow rate if it was in the base to push the water all the way back to the tank. We'll see how it goes.
Man! It must have been a very, VERY long day to grow that much facial/throat hair.
4:36 Am sticking to my lava rocks since it's super porous and can hold lots and lots of anaerobic bacteria for my predatory leech tank that doesn't really need oxygen, except i do have live plants in there to cleanup my leeches bio loads.
I just remove sponge filters and use them as my low flow. Get a box with holes. Everytime u clean your filters u do it in a bowl with tank water and dump it into te box. The idea those aerobic bacterias will die and consume oxygen whichever come first. You must do it in a green tank with algea growing and plenty of fishes excreting ammonia thr. their gills. Needless to say nitrates for the anaerobic will be present. The anaerobic bacterias will break down the nitrate for their oxygen needs.
I've been using sunsun 603b canister filters with Seachem de*nitrate on a low flow setting for 2 years and my nitrates have never been lower! Took about 4 months for the bugs to start denitrifying but once they started to work my nitrates have been very low. Cheers
How low a flow. I've been using a low flow canister for 7-8 months. No difference in nitrates. It's also a sunsun
you forgot about most important thing . you have to use a some kind of carbon source to make this working - you need to feed this bacteria to make it working ( for example vodka, sugar, vinegar) without food this bacteria will grow so slow with almost no impact for your nitrates consumption . when you start adding carbon source to your fresh water aquarium tou going to make a mess because we cant use protein skimmer . the other way is biopelets or the best way to do it in your fresh water aquarium is sulfur media reactor . sulfur contains food for this kind of bacteria and will not mess with your water.you have to just watch ph and adjust it .
Anaerobic bacteria will cause issues in the long term. One must look at getting Facultative Heterotrophic Anaerobes to grow.
How do we do that?
I thought aerobic and anaerobic is the same bacteria just consuming different chemicals? Check out my playlist Jay's video series is awesome. I'm thinking of a hang on the back DIY canister filled with pool sand, with the intake at the bottom of the tank (thanks to your video) and the out let being a pipe 1/2 up the tank with a air stone so the bubbles pull the water through and neutralizing the byproduct of the anaerobic.
Anyway Jay's aquarium explains that very well.
Just do a water change simple
Why make it so complicated
By doing a water change has a lot more benefits not just reducing nitrates but replenishing all minerals that the fish consume
U can never duplicate nature no matter how big ur glass box is or how clever you think you are
Just my opinion take it how you want
If anaerobic bacteria is working in a filter media, there should be nitrogen bubbles visible, and there never is!
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I found another youtuber use seachem matrix and got 0ppm nitrate..just put it in sumptank
Setup a tank and prove it.
The Best Most Knowledgeable person I found out there IS THE "Pondguru" On the UA-cam! He came up with the BEST media and gravel out there "Biohome" to achieve the "TRUE Cycle" !!! If anyone wants more inform about proper filtration in order to achieve a TRUE Complete Cycle and ultimately the ONLY WAY fish can be the complete happiness and HEALTHINESS!!! Happy Day!
Yes that’s the media we should go for. I use the Biohome Ultimate and place a bag at the bottom of the tank. This version of Biohome media includes nutrients in each pallet that promotes the growth of both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria in the pallets that helps reduce ammonia, nitrites and nitrates significantly, thus achieving higher stock level and reduce water changing frequency.
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I think Trump learned the gestures from you dude lol
Daniel Sun to be honest, you're not entirely far off. I watch a lot of news. So there's an endless stream of politics. I don't really discuss politics cuz that's really not my speciality in any way shape or form. However, after watching so much news that of course involves our presidents, I started accidentally mimicking his gestures.🤣
I did the same thing subconsciously of Adam Jensen from Deus Ex mankind divided as well.😂
Trump learn?
Your beard and shirt have enough food residue to feed a family of four.
Long day? I dont think you've moved from that chair in years
creepy beard
Using your finger to talk is super annoying