After adding an anoxic filtration system to your fish tank, thereby creating bacteria that actually break down nitrates in your fish tank thus achieving a FULL nitrogen cycle (denitrification), water changes are only for adding minerals that exhaust over time. 10-20% is more than enough every month or two. This is based on solid, provable science.
Wait, do you’ve never tested before this? And it looks like a handful of tetra or small school species in there. So you don’t know what the regular nitrate levels are, and you don’t have any idea if there would be a difference if the anoxic cat litter box was in there or not. Should have made that more clear. A lot of people probably looking at this to see if it works, and there entirely too many variables and zero control here. No positive or negative conclusion can be made from this
These people are apart of a cult that believe bs. His setup is ANYTHING but anoxic and he's doing 75% water changes, lol. He's broken many of their golden rules already. His setup at the bottom looks like it could filter a small fish store! This has to be a parody or something. Reverse osmoses water at the bottom is going to kill and purify everything in the water, lol.
Hopefully you followed the test kit directions to the word. You have to shake bottle 2 for 30sec before adding the drops. Then shake test tube for one minute. If you don’t do that you will get erroneous readings unfortunately I learned the hard way. Hopefully your filter works!
what could be a good substitute for laterite??? {can't seem to find good stuff fr bak in the day} i found "Laterite Aquarium Substrate" on Amazon, will that work?? Also found Laterin-Powder, says it's natural clay substrate for planted aquarium. I mean if this is same stuff, then couldn't a person just use as substrate and get same results? The kitty-litter is clay & laterite is basically iron supplement, then the Laterin Powder is also clay substrate w/iron. Idk what to choose,.. I'm working on anoxic filtration in my sump setup, Any hlp greatly appreciated. thx in adv,..
BlkiceMike It needs an iron source to start the anaerobic bacteria. That’s the purpose for the laterite. I’m sure that will work if they are advertising it as laterite
Why you need iron? Cant you just use some old nails perhaps? Grind to powder and put into the clay. Oe put some pyrite or other iron ore solids in there, might help.
Amazing...so your water parameters are perfect with a overly complicated anoxic filter so you then decide to change out all the perfectly healthy water out with tap. What are you thinking?
It’s been a year, does this tank still consistently run no nitrates after months without waterchanges? Every other video I’ve found so far from a couple years ago, the people are now saying they ditched the filters after a year because there was no noticeable difference to their nitrates. One guy started noticing phosphates after a year the bcb had used up is capacity to absorb them
Hi Jordanella, could you share some of the (youtube) links you found? Especially the phosphate one. :-) I'd be interested to hear about other people's long-term experiences with this system. Just installed a plenum and am now considering using BCB's as well. But not if it doesn't work, or only temporarily works...
@@Aqua_Gino oh man I’m not digging through vids again. Just Search BCBs, biocenosis, anoxic filtration. You’ll find the vids. There was a bit of a spark of Discus breeders trying out BCBs a few years ago when Novak first started making TH-cam vids. His vids got shared around a really big discus breeder forum, because discus breeders have a strong interest in keeping nitrates low. Breeding discus requires heavy feeding of high protein foods that foul the water fast, and discus are highly sensitive to poor water quality. But after he started receiving criticism in real time via youtube comments, and got into some heated arguments in the comment section, he shut off commenting on all his videos, deleted a bunch of them, and stopped making videos for a couple years. Now pecktech has come across his vids, and he’s trying to put his filtration method back in the spotlight, and started posting vids and allowing comments again. but still hasn’t done anything to provide more evidence or data of all the studying he says he’s done for his filtration, which is disappointing. Try searching “anoxic filter discus” the forum thread should pop up. It’s several years old, so there is a lot of information from the breeders who tried it. There’s even older threads going on some old koi forums. But not a whole lot, as it only seemed to catch on with a very small number of pond keepers on those forums, and that was many years ago already. The plenum I can see helping to reduce nitrates if heavily planted, because the plants are utilizing the nitrogenous waste to convert it into plant matter, and the setup lends itself to maximizing the water contact with the root zone of the plants. Everything I’ve seen leads me to believe the BCBs are just working like a cheap diy version of “marine pure ceramic brick media” It’s just acts as a block of highly porous biological media. Novak has said that if it doesn’t work as he said it does, it’s only because the setup was done wrong. So according to him it’s just everyone else’s fault it didn’t work for them, even though from what I saw they followed his directions exactly. He also wrote a book several years ago, it’s free on the Apple Books app. But some of what he wrote in there contradicts what he says now, so I don’t know how helpful it is. It’s not a really detailed book either.
But if your looking into this stuff, try and find out where he received his PhD. I’ve asked him multiple times and he ignores the question. He doesn’t mention anywhere in his book, or videos, or forum posts. And I’ve search many records of PhD graduations students from schools that offer curriculum to obtain a PhD in ichthyology. His name doesn’t come up anywhere other than fish related forums mentioning his book, or his TH-cam videos...
@@Aqua_Gino ah it was Shaun's fish Tanks. After 2 years of use, the guy novak made a video about in Australia, "Shaun's fish tanks" commented about his experience using BCBs in sumps. He said that after a year the BCB's quit absorbing phosphate and levels kept rising between water changes. And after two years of use, he still wasn't seeing noticeable denitrification, and he had to continue weekly water changes to keep levels at 10-15ppm, and eventually ended up having to install a drip system. He has since moved, and taken down the bcb's, and is just using sponge filters with weekly water changes. he wrote that to me in the comments on his last video with discus
he said he's never tested it.. so he has no baseline for the water parameters before using the anoxic system. This shows nothing. Hasn't collected enough data to show any results of anything lmao
@@Baffi_ Thanks. That's exactly the reason I am asking him how long was the sump running before he got the zero reading so that we can get an idea. My 7.5g tank took about 8months with a plenum to break in & reach zero nitrates from an initial average of around 150mg/l. My source water is at 100mg/l and I don't have any live plants.
@@Baffi_ Thanks for the suggestion. That's an excellent idea.👍 Unfortunately had not recorded it. However, I am currently setting up my 50g tank with the plenum and mini sump running the bcbs so I will take pictures of the set up process and upload it and maybe an update as the parameters change.
@@superaquatics maybe a full recording of everything. Also, overstock your tank the way Knovak does. Try keeping 5 parrot cichlids in a 40 gallon, and feed them Seven times a day. Kevin says his system will allow that, and will still maintain safe healthy parameters for your fish with minimal Water changes. I’m not sure if he was drumming his homemade chemi-pure in those setups though. He most likely was, because the guy mixes up huge bulk quantities of the stuff.
I have a 35 gallon tank with a big goldfish in it. I haven't changed the water in 7 years. It does not have a filter anything like this, or use a BCB/plenum system. It consistently reads 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, 0 nitrates. I haven't done a phosphate test but assume its 0 because there is no algae growth. It is not a planted tank it is actually bare bottom no gravel or dirt. So you can create an almost 0 maintenance aquarium. All I do is add water when it evaporates and feed my fish.
Very nice! I am in process of making an anoxic filter. I have a new Eheim Canister, some Safe T Sorb Oil Dry. Waiting on the Flourite Red to arrive and then will build it. I've heard that you start getting bacteria in 7 days.
It might work with small tetras but it didn't work for my Boesemani Rainbows. Biohome didn't work either. I think anoxic filtration is bunk, to be honest. Not the science behind it but the amount necessary for a normally stocked aquarium.
If Anoxic did not work and neither did Biohome what do you think works? You have tried both type. Did you wait for 6 months for biohome to start working? How much did you use?
@@rockfella27Plants and water changes. I think it only works if you are really understocked but I'm no expert. I did it for a lot longer than six months. I used six big planter baskets in a sump. If I screwed anything up it could be the water flow in the sump.
How do you control for anoxic bacteria? How do you feed them (their food is not nitrates)? How to make sure your oxygen levels are 0 and nitrates are present to allow for these bacteria to burn nitrates? I believe these bacteria can burn oxygen as well but resort to nitrates if no oxygen available, but if you run out of both oxygen and nitrates they will die. They are very finicky. And this "Dr" Novak claims we can't rely on plants. Good then, it means my moderately (for now) planted aquarium with no water changes and a thick substrate has loads of anoxic bacteria getting rid of all the nitrates (sarcasm). I have zero nitrates, so it must be the anoxic bacteria, right?
@@rockfella27 what's so hard on keeping plants growing?🤔 Aquariums are environments for fish. You can't have fish without an environment for them. I suggest you stop caring for living things. We have video games these days, lots of sim style games.
Do you have the name of the baked clay cat litter? I know you said it’s the generic version, off the self brand, but I can’t find unscented, non-clumping baked clay cat litter anywhere. The ones I do find aren’t baked and turn to oatmeal when wet. Thank!
I've done two tanks now, 65 and 6 gallon, that have plenums on the bottom (under the substrate) with some lava rock and bio balls covered by craft plastic screen. The 65 then has a 2-3 inch layer of a product called "Oil-Dri" which is used as a shop absorbant, basically raw baked clay. US$8 for a 40 lb. bag at a hardware store. That was rinsed repeatedly (in my wheelbarrow) till it came close to running clear. It probably never actually would come clear so I just called it a day at about 10 minutes. That was mixed up with something called Eco Complete at about 3 OD to 1 EC. After almost two years I'm glad I tried this.
Hi Kevin, i use a lotta of undergravel filter back in The 80 's ( love them, worked very well),now am going to build one1100 l + one at /400 l Thath Will work With a common sump. I have an idea to have a huge undergravel filter in The sump 100x50 cm With 7 cm gravel and a big. Is Best regards Malte from Sweden, then biofilter and sponge filter station on the inlett from the owerflowthe Chambers With undergravelfilter Will also work as a refugium and and over to a separate cirkulation pump chamber. Am I taking my self Walter over my head🤔 do you see and problem?or is it something i should think of🤔
@@someting9205 Low PH is not caused by the anaerobes,,, over that period, all of the carbonates would have been used up,,, falling KH and GH cause the lowering of the PH. Nothing to do with bacteria.
So can you drink the water? If theres no nitrates in i see why not? The anoxic water (created by anaerobic bacteria) seem to sucessfully clean this water. How ever the waters PH might be low, that could be whats stressing the fish.
I mean, there’s always a chance you could get tuberculosis or some other bacterial infection from the water, but as long as there’s no pathogens then it will be potable
Are you seeing what Dr Novak claims it will do? Did it make your nitrates disappear without water changes? That’s what he said its supposed to do, de-nitrification, not just converting ammonia
I have never tested for Ammonia. If you need to do this it means you F#cked up the cycle, human error. A tank will never produce Ammonia (except intial cycling) unless the cycle has crashed because you have nuked all the nitrosoma and nitrobacter.
Looks like you have a very small bioload, where some, little anoxic processes would yield low nitrates. As you highlight, fish metabolic waste has a lot of detrimental by-products and just because nitrates are low does not mean your fish are living in a healthy water environment. Water changes znd aquaponics are what works for me.
@@anoxicfiltrationplenums Hello Dr. Novak, I really appreciate. I still study your anoxic filltration to carefully set up my aquarium tank and sump. I fell myself so lucky when I early know your videos and your knowledge about anoxic filtration and caring fish. I really appreciate that! I can gratefully say that I’ve saved at least 3 years of my experience for spending on study about aquarium bacause of your helpful videos.
Wait till he finds out he doesn't need a sump like that. It always amazes me the ways people choose to overengineer the simplest things. I mean, he puts decaying matter in his tank so he's not a clean freak, why not have thick substrate?
I love Father Fish, but his technique isn't the only Technique, and in this tank without many plants and not a deep substrate an anoxic filter is the best thing to help the tank be healthy.
You are literally just being a little know it all if you think that would at all be a problem. Almost no one actually does that, but the readers are fine. I have tested to see if shaking a full minute or just 5 seconds makes a difference and it fucking doesn't.
Your tank had just finished cycling by Feb, so the denitrificaiton cycle had likely just barely gotten done by now. Fish were likely not looking great cause it's their first denitrification cycle in their new home. You got rid of all that properly matured water, sort of reset the cycle.
Read Novak’s book, mentions nothing about needing “matured water” anywhere in there. Says you can massively overstock a koi pond using BCB’s though. Even blatantly claims on his older videos he had his pond so overloaded that koi experts were claiming it wasn’t safe. See if you can run a setup like that
If you need to change water anyway, there is no reason to chase nitrates….I’m not understanding why it has become a thing.
After adding an anoxic filtration system to your fish tank, thereby creating bacteria that actually break down nitrates in your fish tank thus achieving a FULL nitrogen cycle (denitrification), water changes are only for adding minerals that exhaust over time. 10-20% is more than enough every month or two. This is based on solid, provable science.
Wait, do you’ve never tested before this?
And it looks like a handful of tetra or small school species in there.
So you don’t know what the regular nitrate levels are, and you don’t have any idea if there would be a difference if the anoxic cat litter box was in there or not. Should have made that more clear. A lot of people probably looking at this to see if it works, and there entirely too many variables and zero control here. No positive or negative conclusion can be made from this
Any updates?
Did you shake the 2nd tube for a minute? Whats up with your fish do you think? What quantity of the media in proportion to tank size?
Is there a purpose for the bio filtration (reactor/bio media) when you have anoxic?
These people are apart of a cult that believe bs. His setup is ANYTHING but anoxic and he's doing 75% water changes, lol. He's broken many of their golden rules already. His setup at the bottom looks like it could filter a small fish store! This has to be a parody or something.
Reverse osmoses water at the bottom is going to kill and purify everything in the water, lol.
Showing off
@@worldserpent731😂😂😂
Hi. Real nice setup. I'm just curious what type of aeration - compressor do you use for moving ded? Thanks
andrejgre it’s the larger fluval pump. Q2 is the model
I am on my second attempt with anoxic filters. Still not much of an impact after 8 months.
Dude combined a fluidized media with that stuff this setup is very impressive for a freshwater aquarium
am i right in thinking that iron oxide has also been used to create blooms of diatoms in the ocean?
Hopefully you followed the test kit directions to the word. You have to shake bottle 2 for 30sec before adding the drops. Then shake test tube for one minute. If you don’t do that you will get erroneous readings unfortunately I learned the hard way. Hopefully your filter works!
what could be a good substitute for laterite??? {can't seem to find good stuff fr bak in the day}
i found "Laterite Aquarium Substrate" on Amazon, will that work?? Also found Laterin-Powder, says it's natural clay substrate for planted aquarium.
I mean if this is same stuff, then couldn't a person just use as substrate and get same results?
The kitty-litter is clay & laterite is basically iron supplement, then the Laterin Powder is also clay substrate w/iron. Idk what to choose,.. I'm working on anoxic filtration in my sump setup, Any hlp greatly appreciated. thx in adv,..
BlkiceMike It needs an iron source to start the anaerobic bacteria. That’s the purpose for the laterite. I’m sure that will work if they are advertising it as laterite
@@jpfishnut ,.. o.k. thx..
Red art clay is also very iron rich. It's cheaper than the "fancy" aquarium clays and not hard to find.
Why you need iron? Cant you just use some old nails perhaps? Grind to powder and put into the clay. Oe put some pyrite or other iron ore solids in there, might help.
Amazing...so your water parameters are perfect with a overly complicated anoxic filter so you then decide to change out all the perfectly healthy water out with tap. What are you thinking?
It’s been a year, does this tank still consistently run no nitrates after months without waterchanges?
Every other video I’ve found so far from a couple years ago, the people are now saying they ditched the filters after a year because there was no noticeable difference to their nitrates. One guy started noticing phosphates after a year the bcb had used up is capacity to absorb them
I would like to hear update as well
Hi Jordanella, could you share some of the (youtube) links you found? Especially the phosphate one. :-) I'd be interested to hear about other people's long-term experiences with this system. Just installed a plenum and am now considering using BCB's as well. But not if it doesn't work, or only temporarily works...
@@Aqua_Gino oh man I’m not digging through vids again. Just Search BCBs, biocenosis, anoxic filtration. You’ll find the vids.
There was a bit of a spark of Discus breeders trying out BCBs a few years ago when Novak first started making TH-cam vids. His vids got shared around a really big discus breeder forum, because discus breeders have a strong interest in keeping nitrates low. Breeding discus requires heavy feeding of high protein foods that foul the water fast, and discus are highly sensitive to poor water quality.
But after he started receiving criticism in real time via youtube comments, and got into some heated arguments in the comment section, he shut off commenting on all his videos, deleted a bunch of them, and stopped making videos for a couple years.
Now pecktech has come across his vids, and he’s trying to put his filtration method back in the spotlight, and started posting vids and allowing comments again. but still hasn’t done anything to provide more evidence or data of all the studying he says he’s done for his filtration, which is disappointing.
Try searching “anoxic filter discus” the forum thread should pop up. It’s several years old, so there is a lot of information from the breeders who tried it.
There’s even older threads going on some old koi forums. But not a whole lot, as it only seemed to catch on with a very small number of pond keepers on those forums, and that was many years ago already.
The plenum I can see helping to reduce nitrates if heavily planted, because the plants are utilizing the nitrogenous waste to convert it into plant matter, and the setup lends itself to maximizing the water contact with the root zone of the plants. Everything I’ve seen leads me to believe the BCBs are just working like a cheap diy version of “marine pure ceramic brick media”
It’s just acts as a block of highly porous biological media.
Novak has said that if it doesn’t work as he said it does, it’s only because the setup was done wrong. So according to him it’s just everyone else’s fault it didn’t work for them, even though from what I saw they followed his directions exactly.
He also wrote a book several years ago, it’s free on the Apple Books app. But some of what he wrote in there contradicts what he says now, so I don’t know how helpful it is. It’s not a really detailed book either.
But if your looking into this stuff, try and find out where he received his PhD. I’ve asked him multiple times and he ignores the question. He doesn’t mention anywhere in his book, or videos, or forum posts. And I’ve search many records of PhD graduations students from schools that offer curriculum to obtain a PhD in ichthyology.
His name doesn’t come up anywhere other than fish related forums mentioning his book, or his TH-cam videos...
@@Aqua_Gino ah it was Shaun's fish Tanks. After 2 years of use, the guy novak made a video about in Australia, "Shaun's fish tanks" commented about his experience using BCBs in sumps. He said that after a year the BCB's quit absorbing phosphate and levels kept rising between water changes. And after two years of use, he still wasn't seeing noticeable denitrification, and he had to continue weekly water changes to keep levels at 10-15ppm, and eventually ended up having to install a drip system. He has since moved, and taken down the bcb's, and is just using sponge filters with weekly water changes. he wrote that to me in the comments on his last video with discus
Are you still running this ?
Excellent. Shows that the anoxic system works perfectly. How long was it from setting up the sump until you did this video?
he said he's never tested it.. so he has no baseline for the water parameters before using the anoxic system. This shows nothing. Hasn't collected enough data to show any results of anything lmao
@@Baffi_ Thanks. That's exactly the reason I am asking him how long was the sump running before he got the zero reading so that we can get an idea.
My 7.5g tank took about 8months with a plenum to break in & reach zero nitrates from an initial average of around 150mg/l. My source water is at 100mg/l and I don't have any live plants.
@@superaquatics oh cool, you’re channel doesn’t have any videos though. Did you record any of your progress? You should upload it
@@Baffi_ Thanks for the suggestion. That's an excellent idea.👍 Unfortunately had not recorded it. However, I am currently setting up my 50g tank with the plenum and mini sump running the bcbs so I will take pictures of the set up process and upload it and maybe an update as the parameters change.
@@superaquatics maybe a full recording of everything. Also, overstock your tank the way Knovak does. Try keeping 5 parrot cichlids in a 40 gallon, and feed them
Seven times a day. Kevin says his system will allow that, and will still maintain safe healthy parameters for your fish with minimal Water changes.
I’m not sure if he was drumming his homemade chemi-pure in those setups though. He most likely was, because the guy mixes up huge bulk quantities of the stuff.
API sells Laterite, ...in 2022, bought some in a pet shop.
"First Layer"..
thx for the video!
Any update on that bcb?
I have a 35 gallon tank with a big goldfish in it. I haven't changed the water in 7 years. It does not have a filter anything like this, or use a BCB/plenum system. It consistently reads 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, 0 nitrates. I haven't done a phosphate test but assume its 0 because there is no algae growth. It is not a planted tank it is actually bare bottom no gravel or dirt. So you can create an almost 0 maintenance aquarium. All I do is add water when it evaporates and feed my fish.
cant really see that being real goldfish are pigs
goldfish often eat algae so perhaps there is some algae in there that sucks up the nutrients, which the goldfish then eats
This is BS
Nice setup. Is your anoxic filter still working its magic after 7 months?
It's not anoxic filtration, lol
very cool. you should use the water if you house plants. great fertilizer. my plants love it.
Very nice! I am in process of making an anoxic filter. I have a new Eheim Canister, some Safe T Sorb Oil Dry. Waiting on the Flourite Red to arrive and then will build it. I've heard that you start getting bacteria in 7 days.
Wow thats an awesome looking setup. 👍
It might work with small tetras but it didn't work for my Boesemani Rainbows. Biohome didn't work either. I think anoxic filtration is bunk, to be honest. Not the science behind it but the amount necessary for a normally stocked aquarium.
If Anoxic did not work and neither did Biohome what do you think works? You have tried both type. Did you wait for 6 months for biohome to start working? How much did you use?
@@rockfella27Plants and water changes. I think it only works if you are really understocked but I'm no expert. I did it for a lot longer than six months. I used six big planter baskets in a sump. If I screwed anything up it could be the water flow in the sump.
@@Hatredy11 Plants only help while growing. Water changes are boring and then you can't stock fish properly 😛
How do you control for anoxic bacteria? How do you feed them (their food is not nitrates)? How to make sure your oxygen levels are 0 and nitrates are present to allow for these bacteria to burn nitrates? I believe these bacteria can burn oxygen as well but resort to nitrates if no oxygen available, but if you run out of both oxygen and nitrates they will die. They are very finicky.
And this "Dr" Novak claims we can't rely on plants. Good then, it means my moderately (for now) planted aquarium with no water changes and a thick substrate has loads of anoxic bacteria getting rid of all the nitrates (sarcasm). I have zero nitrates, so it must be the anoxic bacteria, right?
@@rockfella27 what's so hard on keeping plants growing?🤔
Aquariums are environments for fish. You can't have fish without an environment for them. I suggest you stop caring for living things. We have video games these days, lots of sim style games.
And a handful of tetras , with a sump , running 40 litres of k1 ? 🤣🤣🤣
Do you have the name of the baked clay cat litter? I know you said it’s the generic version, off the self brand, but I can’t find unscented, non-clumping baked clay cat litter anywhere. The ones I do find aren’t baked and turn to oatmeal when wet. Thank!
Jeff Greenwald let me see if I still have the bag just a sec
This is exactly what I used www.walmart.com/ip/Special-Kitty-Natural-Clay-Cat-Litter-Unscented-25-lb/10293705
I've done two tanks now, 65 and 6 gallon, that have plenums on the bottom (under the substrate) with some lava rock and bio balls covered by craft plastic screen. The 65 then has a 2-3 inch layer of a product called "Oil-Dri" which is used as a shop absorbant, basically raw baked clay. US$8 for a 40 lb. bag at a hardware store. That was rinsed repeatedly (in my wheelbarrow) till it came close to running clear. It probably never actually would come clear so I just called it a day at about 10 minutes. That was mixed up with something called Eco Complete at about 3 OD to 1 EC. After almost two years I'm glad I tried this.
Hi Kevin, i use a lotta of undergravel filter back in The 80 's ( love them, worked very well),now am going to build one1100 l + one at /400 l Thath Will work With a common sump.
I have an idea to have a huge undergravel filter in The sump 100x50 cm With 7 cm gravel and a big. Is
Best regards Malte from Sweden, then biofilter and sponge filter station on the inlett from the owerflowthe Chambers With undergravelfilter Will also work as a refugium and and over to a separate cirkulation pump chamber. Am I taking my self Walter over my head🤔 do you see and problem?or is it something i should think of🤔
So, what's stressing the fish?
Low PH created by the anaerobic bacteria.
Stage fright ?
@@someting9205 how would low pH be a problem for these tetras? :) Unless we're talking battery acid low
@@someting9205 Low PH is not caused by the anaerobes,,, over that period, all of the carbonates would have been used up,,, falling KH and GH cause the lowering of the PH. Nothing to do with bacteria.
My guess would be the water change he was doing at that time . Any fish will be stressed if their entire world is shrinking..
Very cool I’m in the process of research for a sump and the two videos you made on this sump was very helpful thank you for sharing
So can you drink the water? If theres no nitrates in i see why not? The anoxic water (created by anaerobic bacteria) seem to sucessfully clean this water. How ever the waters PH might be low, that could be whats stressing the fish.
I mean, there’s always a chance you could get tuberculosis or some other bacterial infection from the water, but as long as there’s no pathogens then it will be potable
Hi. Which cat litter do you used? I got from Walmart the Spicial Kitty natural fragrance free and it is very muddy
That litter is no longer baked. Look for Oil-Dri/Safe T-Sorb (clay based industrial absorbents in granular form)
I have been running this system for 2 years and have had fantastic results did you test for ammonia? Bet it’s the same
Are you seeing what Dr Novak claims it will do? Did it make your nitrates disappear without water changes? That’s what he said its supposed to do, de-nitrification, not just converting ammonia
I have never tested for Ammonia. If you need to do this it means you F#cked up the cycle, human error. A tank will never produce Ammonia (except intial cycling) unless the cycle has crashed because you have nuked all the nitrosoma and nitrobacter.
@@Baffi_ He does water changes as well. He doesn't claim one can go without water changes forever.
@@rockfella27 you haven’t read his book
@@Baffi_ I saw a vid he said he does water changes. Not read the book yes.
Looks like you have a very small bioload, where some, little anoxic processes would yield low nitrates. As you highlight, fish metabolic waste has a lot of detrimental by-products and just because nitrates are low does not mean your fish are living in a healthy water environment. Water changes znd aquaponics are what works for me.
Show more of the main tank pls
The filter I invented works pretty good doesn’t it?
your work is awesome Dr. Novak
Phát Nguyễn thanks 😊
Phát Nguyễn no, your work is awesome. You’re a person who actually listen and executed what he heard and learned.
@@anoxicfiltrationplenums Hello Dr. Novak, I really appreciate. I still study your anoxic filltration to carefully set up my aquarium tank and sump.
I fell myself so lucky when I early know your videos and your knowledge about anoxic filtration and caring fish. I really appreciate that! I can gratefully say that I’ve saved at least 3 years of my experience for spending on study about aquarium bacause of your helpful videos.
You invented this filter? Cool, imma check it out! :D
Quite the nice system 👍✌️🇨🇦
Wait till he finds out he doesn't need a sump like that. It always amazes me the ways people choose to overengineer the simplest things. I mean, he puts decaying matter in his tank so he's not a clean freak, why not have thick substrate?
Use the Father Fish Technique
I love Father Fish, but his technique isn't the only Technique, and in this tank without many plants and not a deep substrate an anoxic filter is the best thing to help the tank be healthy.
@@someguy3167 you already know what's missing. That's good.
For what porpoise?
Very good to hear💯
Did you shake the tube for a full minute?
You are literally just being a little know it all if you think that would at all be a problem. Almost no one actually does that, but the readers are fine. I have tested to see if shaking a full minute or just 5 seconds makes a difference and it fucking doesn't.
if you like filters , its a nice system .
if you like to see fish , ...not so much ,.... you cant see shit !
😂 precisely
Your tank had just finished cycling by Feb, so the denitrificaiton cycle had likely just barely gotten done by now. Fish were likely not looking great cause it's their first denitrification cycle in their new home. You got rid of all that properly matured water, sort of reset the cycle.
Hi , how long does it takes to see reduction in nitrate ? Thanks
Dude has the filtration of a small pet store. Did you notice the extra cord at the bottom beside the sump pump (UV light)? Lol
Read Novak’s book, mentions nothing about needing “matured water” anywhere in there. Says you can massively overstock a koi pond using BCB’s though. Even blatantly claims on his older videos he had his pond so overloaded that koi experts were claiming it wasn’t safe.
See if you can run a setup like that
Awsome I’m just trying this system so I hope I get the same results from dr Novak’s anoxic system 👍🏼
can't find special kitty cat litter in india will u help me with other brand plz.
The kitty litter he refers to is basically bentonite clay pellets. Its usually the cheapest kitty litter you can find.
Cheap, unscented, non-clumping kitty litter. Any brand will work as long as it’s just baked clay
Try finding zeolite
Don't forget the slow water flow, you need to have oxygen depleted water with nitrates in it. When the nitrates are all burnt, byebye bacteria.
great video
♫ YOU は SHOCK... ♪
Why are you surprised ?this is how it works ...👍
Wow! Nice kit there!
Nice video. But don't be shocked. I bet you stopped that moving filter bed and put another bcb basket in.
Zero nitrates absolutely fantastic news .you are stressing you fish stop doing water changes leave the aquarium alone .sounding very contradicting