Mountain Tree + BioHome media - Nitrates in pond - Aerobic and anaerobic bacteria
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Sorry for the late comment Lau , just got back from France , ran out off roaming data , great video as per , I really do like the look of the mountain tree stuff , I’ve got 40ppm straight out of the tap , and my nitrates were always very high untill I added the shower , now even though I trickle in twice a day , with the shower running, my nitrates are 2 ppm so I well happy with that
Thank you so much for promoting the charity build , come on every one let’s make this happen , take care my friend 👍👍😀😀
Yeah I don't know why the shower has never really done a proper job. In saying that, there are only 2 tiers. 3 would be much better.
40 is enormous out of the tap. Max I have had was 30. It goes up and down.
Fish collection looks stunning Lau, you have a great spring/summer enjoying your pond 👌.
Thank you Marek. I am so pleased with them all, they are doing so well. Roll on spring/summer, the sun, uncovered ponds, the fish, the growth, the shows and the friends hey! :-)
Very well explained Lau, happy new year to. I have the same problem, look forward to the next video.
Hi Scott, yes it seems that so many people have got the same problem. Nitrate is often ignored, but I couldn't leave it.
Excellent vid lau ,very informative for people ,the pond and koi are looking great keep well 😀
Thanks Mike, it means a lot. I am really pleased, they are doing well and growing nicely. When I think how small they all were last year :-)
Glad to see someone explaining the filtration with the anorobic and aerobic bacteria alot of people don't know about this and how certain bacteria colonies this is why I like the old multibay filter you can play about with it 😉👍
absolutely, same here, even if I had a nexus, I would still use a multibay to be able to do this. I tried to keep it simple with my explanations so I hope it was ok :-)
Nice one Lau interesting watch as always 👌👍👍
Thank you. Much appreciated
Fish are looking brilliant Lau Great explanation hopefully I absorb it stay safe and well
Thank you Carol. Yes fish seem to be doing well and growing despite winter. Mind you, they are still feeding.
Great content Lau 👍 I enjoy these type of videos 👍
Thank you. Much appreciated. Thank you for watching.
An excellent explanation of the cycle. Lots of different media now, hopefully it will give you the correct outcome. Stay safe
Hi Steve, yes in two weeks, I already have positive results. So chuffed.
Good simple explanation of the difference between aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. Hopefully the new media will help eliminate the nitrate. Looking forward to an update soon. Cheers. 👍🏻
Thank you Ken, tried to keep it simple so I edited quite a bit :-) Massive diofference in 2 weeks... incredible. if I had more bays., I would pack it with the stuff :-)
Thanks Lau, really interesting I’ll be watching closely to see how it goes, especially as I have a very similar situation
Yeah I know you have. I did think about you by the way. Something next week for you for your tap water.
Hi lau very interesting video thanks you, koi are all looking fab, hope your well take care x
Hi Katrina, all good this end. Sun is out, koi are doing well, I am happy :-) Hope you are ok too x
Good luck with the new media. It will be interesting to see if it makes a difference to the Nitrate.
Hi Simon. He has a bit after 2 weeks and a bit But I would need a much bigger bay...
But I have also installed something for the tap water. 😁
Nice explanation of the Nitrogen cycle😊🚴♀️and aerobic and anaerobic bacteria😊🦠. Looking forward to seeing how the new media performs in terms of reducing the nitrates👍😊. Keep up the good work👍🈲🐟😊
Thanks Phil. Reduction already in 2 weeks. So so pleased, baring in mind that the bacteria is not at it's optimum at the moment as my pond is only at 10/11 depending on the day. But I have also fitted last week something great for the tap water
great video
Thanks Alan, hope you are both well.
Excellent content 🤨👏🏻
Thank you Lee. Tried to keep it simple. Hope all is well your end.
Yours video are helping me a lot
With my pond project
Thank you for the videos
Hi Rafael, this is really good to hear! I am very pleased the videos can help. So have you started the build?
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection not yet
I ready have all the sleepers
Im thinking to start in two weeks when I finish some job I’m doing on the garden
😁
@@Crazyforkoiandgoldfish Fantastic, exciting times! Keep me updated, that's really cool.
Fantastic explanations 👌👌👌👍🏽🙂❤️❤️
Thank you Sandy, glad it was ok :-) Hope you are well.
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection your stream are never just ok x brilliant 👌
@@sandypollard562 sweet, thank you :-) x
Brilliant video mate very informative and really good information on the nitrogen cycle this video should help a lot of people 👌👍
Thank you my friend. I try 😉
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection 👌👍
Good information lau, surprised at your tap readings though 😳. Since I installed my bakki river (wrighty idea) and having lillies in the summer, I've had no issues with nitrates
Yeah bakki rivers are superb for that. If I had the space, I would have one with siporax in.
fantastic info lau for people that dont know.
Hopefully I explained it in a simple way.
Lau this video was very interesting and informative 👍 👌 it will help some people out
Thank you Steven. Much appreciated
Hoping the new media combats the nitrates, great explanation Lau, 👍🏻👍🏻⭐️
Hi Phil, thank you. Yes, good progress already in 2 weeks.
A very interesting video Lau 👍
Making me think I should change things a little in my multi-bay, rather than installing a Nexus.
Will take a look at the Mountain Tree products.
Stay safe.
Hi, thank you. I absolutely love multibays because I can work with media. The Nexus are amazing, the best in my eyes, but I feel there is always an element of the nitrogen cycle that is missing as it's plastic with plastic. but in saying that, if you have a shower, then you have got that 3rd phase of nitrogen cycle.
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection Yes, food for thought 🤔
Cheers lau👍
Thanks Richard for watching as always.
Interesting video on nitrate. Hope it dose the trick. I've never had an issue with it. Like you I get about 20ppm out of my tap buy my pond is always pretty much zero. Shower and moving bed is all I have so no anaerobic media 🤷 like you say though, every pond is different
Hi Danny, if I remember rightly, your shower has the right media for the anaerobic bacteria. Your shower media will be colonised by both bacteria.
Always has been a problem here. Wate4r cmpany exlained that t waas agriculture fields around.
hi lau. i'm thinking of trying bio motion myself in my new diy barrel filter. like the idea of more surface area. be interesting to see how it goes
Hi, the Bio Motion, as I understand it, originally was designed to float and to be used in a moving bed. But after testing, it doesn't float and I would be concerned to use it in a moving bed as the fast agitation could cause the balls to disintegrate. So I have placed mine in a vegetable bag in a static bed. There is some clay on it. I won't be able to say if the Bio Motion is doing an excellent job by itself as I have mixed it with other media within the same chamber.
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection hmmm thats intersting. i know that richard doesn't do it anymore. maybe thats why?. i have seen on videos it working in moving bed but no updates or long term results. i shalee stick with plastic media then until i find more out. thanks again Lau
Hi Lau, great vid, where did you get the small piece of Mountain tree media from?
Mountain tree sent them to me along with the brushes. You can buy Nitro Rings from the German rep. I did a video before about filters changes and I put the address there if that helps.
This is of great interest to me Lau as I have the same problem with nitrate. Think we've got same water supplier as koi hut is my nearest koi dealer to. Will watch for your results with great interest.. If this media works I will be soon buying some. 👍
Hi Phil. That's right, you are not too far from me. Yes we have the same water supply. Amazing results already as I installed the media 2 weeks ago. I'll talk about it more next week.
I've used bio-home on all my aquarium filters won't use any thing else I've used bio-home in my bakki showers with pumice and some CSM
BioHome is an incredible media. I have had several phone calls exchange with Richard from the Pond Guru and this is how I learned and started to use it. I have to say, impressive media so I am not surprised you use it too, especially in aquariums. Mountain Tree is up there too, the nitro rings and Lotus root on their latest generation is incredibly good.
Hi can you tell us your progress and how effective you think your changes have been for controlling your Nitrates over the coming weeks. Thanks, 😊
Hi Andy, this video is 8 months old. Following the change of media things have improved massively and I also fitted a nitrate remover at the source. There is a separate video for this. Since then, nitrate in the pond has been around 0.5 mg per litre. Which is a massive improvement since I was around 60 mg/l.
Your koi look great, they don't seem to be bothered about your nitrate levels.
There is a third group of bacteria that can help with nitrates. Anoxic bacteria can be developed in low oxygen conditions to consume nitrates. Dr Novak and Manky Sankey have lots of info on these, TH-cam and internet. I think Bakki type showers probably render them unnecessary but for low tech and low cost solutions they are a definite option to consider
Hi, thanks Peter. Yes when I first built my pond I looked into anoxtic filtration as I knew it was used a lot in large aquariums but it's not a road I wanted to go down to with the pond.
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection yes I agree anoxic filtration is pretty ugly, but it's really cheap and can help those koi keepers who aren't able or willing to spend that amount on higher tech systems. It's a fascinating topic.
@@peternugent1010 it is indeed. I did some research about it especially as I love the bacteria topic and working with different media but anoxic filtration can bring a whole heaps of problems too. So I preferred to stick to the simple filtration for now. When I extend, I will go gravity and drum probably, as this current pond was always going to be 'temporary' due to space and other animals present.
Biohome and lotus root are excellent media for housing aerobic bacteria and does a great job. But they do nothing to reduce the nitrate, this is from my experience. Plants and water changes are the only things that helped me reduce nitrates. From what I have seen most hobbyist couple these media with regular water change and/or nitrogen absorption by plants and believe that these media reduced the nitrates, while it's just a bias because you spend so much money on it
Hi, Thank you for your message. The Biohome maxi ultimate has been specifically designed for anaerobic bacteria. Lotus root for both, aerobic bacteria and anaerobic. The Nitro rings too from Mountain Tree. They have in 2 weeks done a certain job reducing the readings from 30+ mg per litre to 5 to 10. And that is only a small amount of media. The water changes, you cant do more than what I am already doing, even in winter. But the problem is the tap water too... which I have now solved too. The videos get released 2 weeks in general after I filmed. I just add bits to it if I need to. I would never release a video if things were not working :-)
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Here is my champion :-) Hope all is good with you Sid.
Great video Lau I also use biohome ultimate from Richard I put it in my bakki shower and within 2 weeks I had 0 nitrates maybe put some in your shower 👍
Hi Jamie, fantastic to hear. Yes my first tray in the shower is full of it already.
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection I'm surprised you have nitrates then I bought the £89 bag and within a couple of weeks mine were gone but I'm sure with all the extra you've just put in that should munch up them nitrates in no time 👍
@@keepingitkoi It can be a combination of a lot of things, it's not 1 year old yet, there has been heavy feeding last year, some fish coming in the pond and some moved on, brand new media all over, and other factors. The tap water used to be at 30+ mg per litre, so everytime I did a water change, I was in fact adding so much nitrate to the water on the top of what the media were trying to absorb...
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection that's alot for tap water well hopefully you'll have it sorted now 😊
@@keepingitkoi I know... but I cant complain.. at least we havent got chloramine or even ammonia like some people, so I feel pretty lucky :-)
I have a nexus,could I put some other media in to make it perform better? It's just got k1
Hi Mike. I wouldnt put any media where the plastic media is (mechanical and bio chambers) as the Nexus work with plastic media. I am aware that there has been some long discussions between some high range media founders and EA for the Nexus. I do not know the details, but know that they have happened :-) The discussions were about the feasibility to add a chamber within the nexus in order to add high range porous media in that chamber. But it went no where, which is a shame in my opinion.
I am aware that some people who use the nexus as PUMP FED, are using the exit chamber and add porous media inside, high ramge media. I havent got nexus so I cant really help much there.
When you said why you are obsessing about the nitrate that’s exactly what I was thinking nitrate at that level is nothing to worry about I have a drum filter and and a moving bed with hel x13 and I haven’t got any problems with nitrate so I don’t think it’s anything to do with the ceramic media, also when people say they have 0 nitrite that’s not possible unless you don’t feed anything and your fish don’t produce ammonia or you are doing water changes then testing to get the 0 nitrite you always have some nitrite in your pond or you beneficial bacteria will starve, but why do you have nitrate in your tap water is beyond me.
Hi, thanks for commenting. I am aware that ammonia and nitrite is not completely 0. It's a liquid test so it will always read 0 as they are ranges.
A lot of people have got nitrate at the tap, not uncommon in England.
As I said in my video, some people never have nitrate. Some people might have other things that I haven't got. The same filtration on two different similar ponds with the same amount of fish could have two different readings.
You are right, as I said in my diagram, low level of nitrate is not toxic, but constant high reading can be harmful. Readings between 30 to 60 (range of the liquid test) is not ideal. So I have to tackle it, which I have now successfully.
🤔🤔🤔 Less fish, less fish food going into the system , add hardy plants 🪴 to the system and slot of them. That will (should balance out ) your nitrate issues. Maybe add a large basket ( BCB )of Special Kitty , kitty litter ( well rinsed ) to the system. The clay somehow helps the health of the fish while absorbing contaminants.
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Hi lou I think u would be so much more better off if u was to use pumice instead of alfagrog
Hi Mark, Pumice is a medium range (although I do like it - I have some in the second tier in the shower) shower media. Not effective at all submerged. Alfagrog however is the opposite. Medium range media again, but very good submerged. Alfragrog is not porous at all but is great at trapping detritus and fines. So great for mechanical filtration. It can also be used in trickling shower (no more than 6000 l per hour) showers as it helped to gas off the nitrogen gas in a shower, but not being porous, it has no benefits for anaerobic bacteria.