The Nitrogen Cycle - Fully Explained!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2024
- Hello Everyone!
In this video we take a much deeper look at the nitrogen cycle. We not only look at the basics, but talk about why the nitrogen cycle occurs.
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Is it a good idea to add a couple of air-stones underneath ceramic media for extra oxygen?
Incomplete Information - An apparent misunderstanding of the difference between the 'Anoxic' and the 'Anaerobic' zones - (and and this from many people that still put their substrate directly on the bottom of their aquariums (Which creates Anaerobic Zones) - Demonstrating an apparent lack of understanding of complete microbial processes, and the SLOW flow rate Dwell Time, which is Critical to these Biological (as opposed to high flow rate Mechanical) Filtration processes.)
In the water conditions of The 'Anoxic' (NOT 'anaerobic') Zones. Defined as the area where no free oxygen exists, but Nitrites, Nitrates, and Phosphates do exist: these Anoxic Zone Bacteria get the Oxygen that they need to thrive by Breaking down Nitrites, Nitrates, and Phosphates to 1. Get the Oxygen they need, and 2. Release Nitrogen Gas as a product of these processes.
By comparison, in Water Filtration: 'Anaerobic' Zones are to be avoided at all costs. As they basically undo all of the work which both the Aerobic and the Anoxic microbes have accomplished, as well as creating other nasty compounds such as Hydrogen Sulfides.
You can reference, Jaubert Plenum (The 'Monaco System') - (as applied to Fresh Water systems,) as a starting point.
@@ghos282 'Anaerobic' zones issue may make a confusion especially for beginners. So he might have avoided it.
10:48 Can you please explain why to keep nitrate At 20ppm?
I did fully watch the video and saw you explaining "Denitrification",so in that sense what you actually want is 0 ppm of nitrate in your tank (if you could that is) or should there always be some amount (like 20ppm)?
One of the only aquarist with a science degree... very informative- great video
Thank you! Appreciate you watching!
AND... very impressive ! I’m so glad I found his channel, my little Betta, Tilly, and I, thank you very much!
Yes! Amen!!
@@bebetaylor3547 Tilly stilly alive?
@@PULAG Thanks for asking about Tilly. Sadly, Tilly died about a year ago.
As a microbiologist who is starting to get into the aquarium hobby, I absolutely love this video! Would love even more detail about the Nitrobacter genus actually, since that's the step I always seem to have trouble with during my cycles. Low ammonia and nirates, but high nitrites :( Would love to learn more about how to better establish an effective colony of nitrobacter bacteria to reduce all of my nitrites to nitrates
I really appreciate the dry erase board. So often people talk about something but only have bullet points. Seeing things laid out in a pattern truly helps my mind memorize the picture...and with it the concepts.
Thank you! Finally a thorough video that explains in details but not too complicated to understand! Would love more videos like that ❤
This was next level! I appreciate the "why" in anything I am doing! I feel like I just leveled up
Thank you! Hope it helped. :-)
I just started a part time job at a pet store, and the owner got mad at me for not being able to grasp the Fish-in tank cycling process. After watching your presentation on the brass tacks of the Nitrogen cycle, I think I will be able to understand the Cycling process much easier, and I can relay the info to them to prove I understand the process. This was super informative and you broke it down so succinctly. Kudos, and thanks for making this video. I am subscribing now.
Thank you!
I wish my biology class to be in such a beautiful fish room, and my bio teacher as you. Nice white board explanation
Thank you!
It’s 2024 and I barely got into the fish hobby and this made me subscribe to your channel. All respect and admiration 🤝
Thank you for being here!
I just set up my first tank today with live plants! Hearing the nitrogen cycle explained this well and in depth gives me the urge to cry. I've seen quite a few people try but nothing clicked quite like your explanation. Thank you so much for your time and dedication!
Thank you!
I’m 37 and have been keeping fish since I was 9... I *FINALLY* understand the subject. Thank you!!
Good to hear :-)
This is the exact type of content I wish I found regularly on TH-cam.
Hobby video's often reference underlying scientific principle, but most hobbyist's don't have a background to properly understand or articulate the fundamentals.
With a degree field in applied biology, I get frustrated every time a fish video says the nitrogen cycle only has 3 steps... The nitrogen cycle is one of the largest biogeochemical cycles on the planet. I'm happy to see it explain correctly in this context.
Thank you!
As a medical student I can assure you this video explained the nitrogen cycle perfectly and used all the right terms. Perfect video.
Thank You for the detailed explanation, loved it!
I did terrible in school but one class i aced was marine bio. I tried fish tanks when i was younger but just too young to actually understand the environment in an aquarium. That being said 10 years later I tried again and now have an efficient stabilized fresh water aquarium and its mainly because of your videos. I tell everyone to watch your videos when they are starting this interesting scientific hobby. Now that i know this is your career and your also a teacher with degrees, MUCH respect! Keep on giving! Ill be purchasing a t shirt soon! Haha
Thank you Eric! Glad you are enjoying the hobby!
Great video really helped me under stand the little things I didn’t get .. keep making these great videos
Great content. Exactly what I was looking for.
I wish I had you as a professor, you seem like an awesome teacher!!
Thank you for explaining this so thoroughly! I finally feel like I can understand the cycle!
This was super helpful, thank you!
Thank you sooo much! Very clear explanation! ❤️ As a beginner I’ve made the first mistake of buying a female koi betta fish before preparing a tank. With all the information across youtube I felt I was doomed to have a dead fish, until I found this vid!
Thanks Jason 😊
I just started the nitrogen cycle in my 200g tank. Added the Seachem bacteria starter and testing the water once a week now, it's been 2 weeks since the start. No fish in the tank, waiting for the cycle to get ammonia to zero as per this video, it's .5ppm right now. I wasn't really sure when I could add fish, so I'll wait awhile, 4 weeks or so. I've also added a little bit of flake fish food and one raw shrimp to decay and create waste. Hopefully I got this recipe right so far, we'll see.
Thanks for all the great information, love the class 👍
Thank you for this! Great information! I really appreciate you taking the time do this for us!
Being the nerd that I am I enjoy this stuff. : -)
Amazing breakdown of information. I’ve been in the aquatics hobby for a long time. I’ve never seen the cycle explained in this much detail. Thank you sir for sharing your wisdom and bettering our awesome hobby! I always learn something new with every video of yours that I watch. Keep the awesome videos coming!
Thank you! Glad it was helpful.
The best video I've ever seen on the subject matter done in a quick manner.
Thanks for making this, it helped me a lot. All of your videos are great
Thank you! Appreciate you watching!
Thank you so much! This is very educational! Always get confused with the nitrogen cycle, this definitely helps in terms of cycling my tank.
Glad it helped!
Amazing video Jason, been in the hobby for a long time and still learned a ton
Thank you so much!
Excellent! Very simple explanation to a complex system. Thanks for taking the time to make this video.
Hi Victor - thanks for watching!
Great video... Thank you for your time!
Helpful. Thank you. I especially appreciate addressing the portion after nitrates, which is regularly excluded.
This was awesome, I loved the more in-depth, scientific look into the Nitrogen cycle.
Thank you. Science is cool. haha
I like the way you explain all this Aqua Stuff👍
Thanks!
Golden Vid Jason! thank you !! science is one of my favorite topic to talk/learn about, although i am pretty familiar with the process, i thoroughly enjoyed this video, wish i had a teacher like you back in my school days !
Appreciate you watching!
Thank you. I learned so much. I will rewatch and take notes to better understand the nitrogen cycle.
i feel very privileged to watch this video. Thank you a lot. i appreciate it very much
Thanks for being here!
Wow. Learned so much. Thank You!
Great job! Made it easy, I understand
Hi! As an engineer I loved the technical detail you go into in your videos. It is much better than other peoples videos. Please keep these coming! Great job!
Will do! Thanks for watching!
This was phenomenal! I did have a basic knowledge of the nitrogen cycle, but this just took it to a whole new level and lightbulbs were going off throughout the entire video. Appreciate you so much! Best video out there on this imo. Would love to see more videos like this👌
Same here. This gave a new depth to my understanding of the process. Curious if there’s a follow up video as to what organisms convert nitrates into nitrogen gas, thereby reducing need for as many water changes
I am so glad I found this video. I am new to keeping tanks and was wondering why something’s were going on. I just got my second tank and couldn’t understand why it was so cloudy. I’m looking forward to finding more videos like this.
Hi Jason! I love your channel! You've inspired me to make videos on fish care! I got started on the right foot all because of your very informative videos! Thank You! 👍👍
Good to hear! Good luck.
This was awesome and so helpful. Thanks!!
Very good video, I like these deeper explanations. Getting back into fish keeping after a many-year absence, and I am enjoying it immensely. I had an initial Ammonia bloom from rushing the new tank procedures, but it is coming under control now. Thanks for the explanation.
I know this is an older video but absolutely enjoyed it. Thank you guys for all you do for us.
Thank you !
I’ve just started following your channel and totally enjoying it. I have got to say this is one of the most informative, if not the most informative, video about nitrogen cycle. I have been keeping fish for many years but the depth of this video is an eye opener for any fishkeeper like me. Thank your very much and looking forward to the next videos and live-streams. Great job!
Thank you!
This video just blew my mind. I came for the fish, but learned so much more. A concise, well explained knowledge drop. I would love to see a series of general bio/chem topics.
Thank you!
You're now my favorite information source!!
Thank you for being here!
i'm planning on taking up the hobby somewhat soon and I'm starting off with a larger tank which is somewhat daunting even though my father was in the hobby long ago and has some knowledge to help me out. I really appreciate you explaining the finer details in such a simple way to understand. i feel way more confident going in now. thank you so much :)
This was awesome!
absolutely incredible video this was great
So helpful, thank you!
This was a terrific video Jason!!! I enjoy the videos covering the "scientific" side of the hobby.
Thanks - I enjoy this side of the hobby as well. : -)
Love that you have a degree and share that knowledge to help people take the best possible care of their fish n plants. That and your wife’s enthusiasm for the hobby along with creative talent is why I binged this channel yesterday and am now a subscriber.
Glad you are here!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and helping me understand the “why” of everything I’m doing. As a new aquarium hobbiest, your videos continue to help me be a responsible and educated fish keeper
Great video, I really appreciate your level of knowledge in this area! I learned a lot!
Thank you!
A lot of food for thought. It supplied me with some missing or forgotten information. Also gave me some ideas on some projects. - Thanks Jason!
Hey J - Can't wait to hear about the projects you come up with!
I just started keeping fish, when I was a kid we couldn't afford to. So now that I'm retired I have the time, the means and desire to do so
I see there's a lot more to this than " keeping fish". I think that's why I'm so interested. In my middle aged years I was into beekeeping and all the science that went with it.
At almost 70 I'm still intrigued with the amazing cycle we call life. Great video so I will subscribe to learn more about being a better steward for my fish.
Thanks for being here!
Explained excellently.. 👏 great job Jason 👍
Thank you - appreciate you watching.
I love the scientific breakdown. Good video Jason!
Thanks Zenzo!
Prime Time Aquatics I will have to reference this video when people want a more detailed, scientific explanation. Bravo!
Thank you so much! This video was really educational and helped to better understand the nitrogen cycle. Well done !
Awesome! Glad it helped!
Dope on a whole new level.
Hi Jason, I'm a chemist just starting with planted aquariums and I've really enjoyed your video, great presentation! Glad to be able to see someone talking more in-depth about the topic and I think you've managed to achieve the happy medium between scientific detail and yet still being perfectly accessible to a lay person. You've quickly bumped into being my second source of science-based information regarding the hobby (after Diana Walstad of course, haha)
Thank you for being here! Always nice to have more science nerds like me watching. :-)
As an RN, I appreciated the explanation with the terminology included. I was unaware of the reduction portion of the cycle! I'm not quite there yet, so I'll keep changing my water and growing my plants:) Thanks for the info.
Thank you!
Good explanation. I’d welcome more of this type of presentation.
Thank you!
Great video.well explained.
That was very clear. Thank you!
This was a great explanation for the nitrogen cycle in aquariums. I'd love to see one tailored to corals specifically since they have their own suite of symbiotic microbes that oxidise/reduce nitrogen.
That's a funny one. I was wondering whether there might be a really strange reason why they are dying , such as why we dispose of all our waste on land when 7/8 surface us water ? Sorry idiot question ask Green peace.
Omg I finally am truly learning this
Nicely explained
excellent explanation, we can always use more of this type of education for our aquarium hobby. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Keep it up please!
Thanks Sher - will do!
Wow, this is amazing! Subscribed
Glad you are here!
Excellent explanation. Flashback to my years teaching bio and biochemistry...and applying all that to maintaining my tank...not easy!
But it’s fun 😀
Excellent presentation. I'm considering all this as i new up my chart aquarium. Thank you
Thank you very much. I really enjoyed this, Professor!
Thank you!
Fascinating, Thank you!
Wow...awesome video. ..you are a true fish nerd, I wish my professor's white board lessons went this well. You have a gift to break complicated science down to manageable pieces. I appreciate your time and energy dedicated to this video...thank you very much.
Thank you!
Great video,
Thanks Jason!
Thank you!
Great video!!!
You got a thumbs up in the beginning just for the fact that you explained that this video is not to solve problems. DOPE!!!!
Thank you!
And I wish I could give another like for the fact that you broke everything down. I'm about to upgrade from a 20 gal to a 55 and this was ridiculously helpful.
Appreciate you watching!
Wow, thank you. This is perfect for me -
I love science and understanding things in depth, however my learning ability is inhibited through medical issues.
Having this on video means that I can actively learn within my capacity. Thank you, Jane Sth Australia
I'm so glad it helped! Thanks for watching.
This is the best video on the nitrogen cycle iv'e seen.
Thank you!
Great explaining Brother 👏👏👏
Thank-you Sir! I believe one of the most important things to be successful in aquarium keeping it's about understanding the 'Balance of nature', and being patient. Understanding the consequences of making changes to the ecological system, i.e. adding too many fish at once, changing too much or not enough water, feeding too much, too much or too little light for plants, temperature changes, adding chemicals to fix one problem created by another etc etc. I find much pleasure in not just observing the fish, but also in the journey and creation of an aquatic ecological system.
you totally helped me alot.. i really have a hard time with my small tank and i bought a big tank to fix my issue and do mainatenance .. i also made a diy filter and at the same time airpump hahaha.. Philippines here
New fish owner here. Educating myself before having more than 1 fish
Loving your channel. So informative. Well presented.
Thank you! Glad it's helping. : -)
Great video! Thank you.
Got it! Great explanation.
Great explanation. As advertised, this gets into the weeds. I kind of get it but I’ll probably need to watch it 5+ more times for it to stick.
Well I thought I was doing my homework trying to back into the hobby... then I watched this video, will probably need a few more views to pack all of that in.
Great job though, really enjoyed watching it.
Finally a worth watching video. Loved it and also it helps people like me with engineering degree. Great video
Thank you!
Great video! You did an excellent job explaining the FULL nitrogen cycle. As an Engineer I appreciate the details even if I don't fully understand the organic chemistry going on. You mentioned creating an anaerobic section to foster the growth of Denitrifying bacteria. Can you do a video on how to create such a system? With your expertise with water chemistry, I would like to hear your suggestions. Thanks. Keep up the in depth videos!
I will add it to the list. : -)
As a chemist that just started this hobby, i respect how others that understand this concept. Even i took several days to fully grasp the concept.
Bravo!! fantastic information. As usual great video!
Thank you!
Very well explained, thanks👍
Great explanation of entire cycle. Thought you might be a teacher. Have you checked out Dr. Kevin Novak's videos? He has a filter system that breaks down nitrate. Rants a bit, but interesting. Would be good for v. large tanks w/ big cichlids.
Having a marine biology background and picking up fish keeping a couple of years back I was blown away by the amount of rubbish info on YT.
This is what people need to know. Huge respect to you for taking the time the explain this properly. Get this right and you can achieve a truly balanced tank with minimal inputs.
Thank you!
As a nurse and a new fish hobbyist I thoroughly enjoyed this educational video! Thank you so much!!!
Thank you!
I understood some of these words!
Seriously though, great video and I'm glad to finally have a FULL explanation!
Thank you! These are the types of videos people often watch multi times to let all the info digest. :-)
Excellent video