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- I have spent a year with this tank. Its been very easy to keep and fun to look at while we play board games.
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Always love watching these long term updates. At least you can learn something useful.
Whomever cuts your hair truly understands the un even thing like the human head 🥩😀 great cut !!! And he is wearing a secret history t shirt 👚 looks fly as hell my man !!! Keep them coming
That's a very interesting result, I watched the setup video back when you set it up and for you to show such an update is really appreciate it. 👍
Awesome video. That video sent me to watch hours of Dr Novak videos on anoxic filtration. I just built one and am superexcited to see the results.
@@ModMINI Cool, I also find the Dr Novak's channel really interesting, I haven't been able to set up a tank using that method but definitely will in the near future, I already got some of the materials to build the new aquarium using his method, I hope yours become a success. 👍
I love the realistic look of this tank so much
Ok, I’m getting into this...
Always fun to hear long term experiment results. The tank is looking great!
Thank you for the follow up. Too often there are how-tos with no long term results. Keep up the good work.
I just wanna say super jelly on that tie die shirt. If you ever feel the desire to pump out a couple more put me down for 2, and I'm local in Knoxville. 😁
i have 7 tanks and thanks to Dr Novak, all of them are anoxic filtered with a sponge filter over the lift tube. i was sold after i had to clean a tank out with that filter, and it was sweet smelling all the way to the bottom. no foul odor!
Thanks for sharing! - Little Bobby
Very nice and thank you for sharing. I have the same tank and the same filter setup, but I have a Fluval 207 which actually pumps into a disused and unplugged Fluval 70 hang on back filter, which I have converted into media box into a marginal planter and also has stores an anoxic BCB bag. I think I'll also use it to put easily replaceable carbon and crushed coral and filter floss as well. I would turn the entire 207 canister into a BCB. I ALSO have a disused pond canister filter (good for ponds over 1000 gallons!) which is 75% washable foam media and 25% bio pellets - I removed the bio pellets and put three more BCB bags. The tank is about 5 weeks old. I'm REALLy looking forward to how it performs!!
(It's well planted 20 gallon long with lots of plants and a bubble wall. About a dozen green neon tetras (smaller than blue neon tetras), 5 zebra danios, a male betta, 6 pygmy Cory, a half small shrimp and some snails. it's overstocked but I was ready! Goal: no water changes at all!!!
Interesting topic and nice looking tank. This may be my next experimental tank. I'm experimenting with deep sand bed tank at moment.
My personal experience with anoxic filtration is that it's great for ammonia and nitrite removal, but it's really the plants that manage the nitrate.
You're doing it wrong.
@@rstuff886Actual biologists would disagree with you.
Great video!!
Great video Sean. Ive been wondering about this tank. Im jealous of the red root floaters. Mine died a slow and painful death. I dont think they like my water.
My red roots went the same way.
I think my problem was that there was too much movement on the surface.
Awesome
Halfway through and didn’t know whether you had a filter or not! Nicely hidden.
This corner sponges are pretty cool.
A deep substrate
Wait for it. In about two weeks we do your style.
@@pecktec Delightful. Thank you. My point is this is actually a deep substrate.
@@FatherFish it’s not though. Barley an inch with the under gravel filter.
@@pecktec Fooled me. It looks 3-4 inches deep. Thank you for these interviews. Most enlightening.
Why do you think that deep substrate is better?!
My take away, as a novice to anoxic filtration (wanting it to work) is that some fish died and plant growth was actually slow which is opposite to what I've listened to so far.
Back in the day, UGF filters were never regarded as good for plants. I'm not seeing the change to that yet?
The issue was the flow rate was too high, it needs to be a trickle
Thanks for the update on this. I was curious how this was going to work long term.
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You said it best- do the “anoxic” filtration yourself and measure the difference in nitrates (assuming you have the same fish and tank size and no plants). You’ll see like most people find out is that there’s no difference in the rate of your weekly accumulation of nitrates. Under gravel filters and kitty litter baskets work just fine for beneficial bacteria- no different than any other medium in my opinion. But the claims of significant measurable denitrification by Novak doesn’t occur.
It takes time to see nitrate reduction they said , my plenum is one month old and I still couldn’t see any result
@@winooi5012 bruh its the plants consuming all the nitrates not kitt litter, he litterally has frogbit and other fast growing plants in his tank
Sorry bruh but nope , if what you said do works i wouldn’t build a plenum
@@Demontoastslayer yep. It’s plants
Would you please explain how anoxic filtration works? I don't think the Dr. Fully explains how it works or how to do it.
Nutshell: In normal filters live bacteria which turn fish waste into ammonia and nitrite before ending up as nitrate, which is less toxic to fish but still must be dealt with. Too much nitrates is toxic to the fish and can cause algae to grow as well. The only way to get rid of it is plants and water changes but plants by themselves can't handle all the nitrates. Dr. Novak found that a different kind of bacteria grows when there's not much oxygen in the water. They take the nitrogen out of of the nitrates and release it as a gas, which just slowly bubbles out of the aquarium. This is done by moving water slowly around layers of baked clay, which is where the bacteria would grow. So the remaining nitrates are basically turned into nitrogen gas or plant mass. If done well, it might be possible to maintain a steady state ecosystem.
@@ModMINI thank you for your response. What would count as baked clay?
@@ExtravagantFragrances Unscented kitty litter is one example. You can discover the rest of the information yourself. Watch some of Dr Novaks videos here on TH-cam.
@@ModMINI Thank you!
It is hard to piece together from his videos, it seems like 50% of them are him complaining about people who question his method, or people who just ask general questions that aren't to his liking.
I have 3 different species of floaters that grow like crazy in my tanks so I bring them to my local fish club meetings once a month and make like $10-25
So….. does it work?
You didn't explain anything about the Anoxic but ok
What did you want to know?
Thanks for video. I've started a fish channel after watching your videos. Please check it out. Thanks
There is no anoxic, as long as there is oxygen inside.
And, as long as you have living plants, water moving, surface contact with the air, there is.
Fill the bottle
The one tank I have with a plenum has almost no algae.
Thank you Sean for always coming up with great content , its almost always something that the majority of hobbyists can relate to ....I found your channel the night I got the MEGA FLEX & that was 2019 ? ( Lot's of Jerry Garcia concerts in the 90's ; }Y) Almost 24 months of always looking forward to Pecktec & It's obvious you love getting in the spotlight and I hope you are getting more out of it than what your putting into it 🌴 💚🍹🏝️ U definitely deserve to dig into the warm sand whilst 🕵️ sipping some adult blender bev's w the Family this winter !!! Great video
Great Tank very cool ✌
Good to know the undergravel system seems to cut algae down. I have a terrible time with it in smaller tanks even with light stock load😉👍
That's because anoxic bacteria take the oxygen from phosphate leaving you with phosphorus. Anoxic zones are only lacking free oxygen O2 but oxygen is still there in molecular compounds. The aquarium industry knows these things but it doesn't make money the same as selling filter cartridges. Water treatment plants have been using, aerobic, anaerobic, and anoxic bacterias to clean water to be potable again for quite a long time.
I want to know where you got those lights in the back, above each tank? Good looking tanks, nice vid.
Those are Kessel brand lights.
Tha is for the video, I watched the setup video the other week and have been looking forward to this one. The aquarium looks great.
My 40g breader has had it. I had to take it down because I could not get anything to grow in the tank so I took it down and put up a 20g long and its doing good and plants are growing.
Ruben.. Sounds like you jist needed a brighter light for deep water. ?
The amount of plants compared to your stocking amount would make you think it'd be 0 nitrates without the anoxic. I haven't seen any one do an anoxic without a lot of plants to test if the anoxic is actually doing the trick.
My tank is almost always 0 nitrates unless I add a lot of fertilizer despite a large stocking. This is because the large amount of plants I have.
Your tank looks great btw!
I feed my duck weed to my ducks 🦆😊
Awesome video. The tank looks great.
Your anoxic tank needs more substrate 3.5"/4" there's to much algae not set up right sorry to convert no3 n phosphates needs to be deeper
I get very little algae in this one.
Wow, it's already been a year? I remember watching the vid when you first did it. My time sure flies
now thinking about it , i have done this method before ufg ,using canister to suck up from tube
Cool content, not gonna lie though I wanna know what is up with that guitar without strings lol.
I thought the tank looked great the before way.
I have a 10 gallon tank with an anoxic filter inside a canister filter. I keep cardinal tetras in there. I have not changed the water in 9 weeks and ZERO nitrates. It's removing the nitrates and almost eliminated the algae. Fish are happy and healthy ☺. Yes, i did test properly, zero nitrates. Now trying the same on a 29 gallon tank.
Wow, thanks for the real life story.
What matters is how many fish are in your tank, and how much they weigh. i.e. how much food do you feed them a day. If there are only a few fish in your tank, then what you say doesn't prove anything
@@football4.069 before i had the filter, nitrates would increase at 10 ppm weekly. After i added the filter and it started woking as it should, nitrates dropped to zero and stayed there. No other conditions were changed. Fish load, food, light, plants, all the same. I controlled other factors so only the filter was changed. It does work if you get it right.
@@kamelladys before using anoxic filtration what filter do you use
@@football4.069 a simple hang on back filter. It's a 10 gallon tank so didn't do anything fancy. When i tried the anoxic filter i put it inside a canister filter and used a valve to slow the flow down.
The anoxic is not a cure all though. It worked well to control nitrates, but you can still get plenty of algae due to other factors. Size is also a factor. The filter that worked on the 10 gallon was not big enough to eliminate all the nitrates from a 30 gallon tank. The best it did was to hold the nitrates down. I since tore down the 30 gallon and put a plenum in the substrate to see how well that works. That was 4 weeks ago so I'm still waiting for the bacteria to mature.
bla bla bla bla just like novak, no facts....
A complicated deep substrate aquarium with algae still on it, most of the filtration were made by the plants specially the reed root floaters. Nothing outstanding IMO. Father fish knows best!
This isn’t deep substrate. That video is coming though.
@@sagrath1982 u blind. I built it I know what's up with it.
@@sagrath1982 4 inches? I have 3" of substrate and it looks twice as much as this. You probably do need your eyes checked.
@@sagrath1982 It is barely 3"
Some of the inches is the plenum, not the substrate
Thanks for the update. Looking forward to see the next update.
Hopefully next time you will give us a reading on nitrate.
Feel grateful I'm not an aquarium hobbyist because id literally change the game.
Only male cherry’s