Can You Have Too Much Biofiltration?
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- Опубликовано: 22 янв 2020
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Here's part two of this two part series on aquarium filtration, and whether or not you can have too much. Today's video focuses on the nitrogen cycle and biological filtration. Biofiltration Biofilter 
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We r on the same page with this, and after hrs of listening to others try to explain this and the cycling of the tank I think u explained it in the easiest way to understand
The tank in the background is SPECTACULAR!!! It is my dream to have a tank like that one day🐟
Its actually a little cloudy.
Recently stirred up or not
Enough filtration .
Great topic! Since bacteria always replicate as a normal function, the filtration of good bacteria takes up all space within the volume of the aquarium. Once the bacteria establishes, it will not stop unless there is some sort of disruption to it by a contaminate, either physical or chemical. Therefore, there is never too much biological filtration. Whatever surfaces, including water, exist within the aquarium they will always have the bacteria on it with the constant replication of bacteria happening. The complication to this if the time process to accomplish this as well as the aerobic and anaerobic surfaces fro this to happen. You can overstock an aquarium and that in itself causes a whole lot of associated problems.
Some times it is a good idea to ahve extra bio media cycling with beneficial bacteria in case one of your other tanks' cycle crashes, or you want to start a new tank or scap a current tank to rescape and star over fresh with it having extra active bio media can help revive a crashed tank, or start a cycle for a new/revamped tank.
Great summary in 10 minutes!
That's the best explanation of the nitrogen cycle I've ever heard, thanks.....
I've got a 10 gallon tank with 10 neon tetras and a male dwarf gourami. Converted the spray bar to a hang on the back filled with seachem matrix running on to filter floss and with plants. Never checked any kind of parameters and the fish love it.
I've always liked this guy's videos 👍🏽
Thanks!
Most hobbyist will never face
Too Much Biological. Most not enough.
With Biological too much is never enough
First visit here. Thanks for sharing the info, but dude... that waterfall is SUPER cool.
Very informative. Thank you.
1080 quality view, What a surprise!
This is s great topic I have honestly been experimenting with this.
Using coffee strainer with lava rock and seachem matrix so far so good I can show picture of set up
Can't beat cheap lava rock IMO
You can have too loittle bio filtration by not having enough media for the beneficial bacteria to live on/in. But you can't have too much bio media as the bacteria will spread out so ong as there is enough amonia and nitrites are in your aquarium Fish also excrete urea as well which is converted into ammonia. If your toxins increase slowly the beneficial bacteria will spread until there i s no more room for them to spread to. They will also colonize substrates, plants, rocks, driftwood, and the tank walls aswelll as the filter materials in your filter, be they mechanical poly fill floss, or sponge, bio balls or ceramic bio media. All of those allow room for the beneficial bacteria to spread.
Great video makes perfect sense to me
And that's why I subscribed to your channel.
'Biofiltrating' is a word. More often phrased 'biofiltration'. Good video and explanations. 📺
I like to use coarse pre-filter sponges on my hang on back (HOB) filters for increased surface area. Along with more coarse foam in the filters, lots of gravel and plants. Good 'real estate ' for the bacteria. 😋
Am working on one of my tanks, by raising Guppy fry, slow increase in ammonia by the fish as they grow should produce a nice bacterial colony.
Thanks for keeping your promise on the follow up vid. I mentioned on the mechanical filtration video on my over filtration with biological materials in some of my tanks. I agree with you on your balance out theory. 3 reasons why I go heavier than normal. 1 im a over stocker of heavy pollution fish. 2. One tank is discus. Enough said there😱. And 3 ive had situations where I was given fish on a very short notice,so i could just pull a filter off for helping a quickie setup. But i really do see you're point when you don't do the over stocking and not growing monster fish in admittedly smaller tanks than they should be in. Can we look forward to a chemical filtration vid.🤞🤗
Probably not. I never really use it so I don't think much about it. Maybe I'll talk about it.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly i hear you. Only one i use is purigen. I wouldn't even use that other than you can recharge it many times
In both freshwater and saltwater I think never but once again in saltwater maybe bc too low nitrates can hurt some corals unless you target feed often I guess.
Magic Sponge 😂
So in the end from both movies you have to find good balance between mechanical and biological filtration. Because if you are lazy and you are allowing filter to gather a lot of poop inside you should prepare enough of surface for biofiltration to handle it. If you will take care of mechanical filtration with good maintance, tank by it self will handle everything. After reading result of comparison beetwen different filter media from seachem matrix to sponge filter I'm also thinking that after tank is established with just enough of flow, it can take care of cycle without additional filtration. Thanks for great materials ;)
Fishless cycle, www.buildyouraquarium.com/how-to-fishless-cycle/
The whole point of a fishless cycle is to get more bacteria than needed.
So when you add the fish you got at-least enough to support the load.
It is also surprisingly easy... but yes not an option for if you wanna expand your established tank.
I normally do . Max capacity. Add an extra factor or 2 or 3
So my 30g has 4kg media, enough for a 100g
If I have a dead fish, or 5. No ammonia spike
You can have too much buy spending too much, or wasting tank space. It’s a balence through experience and practice.
Cost of bio media of a 30g. £40.
Cost of stocking a 30g with 30 fish....at least £100
Hi Dan. I am relatively new to this hobby and would like to run something past you. If I slightly over feed, I should be able to build more bacteria than the tank really needs (assuming of course there is ample amounts of media). Would that be in any way, helpful to me, if I over clean either the tank or a filter?
In theory that works, but I'm not sure I see the point. You're just creating addition waste by over feeding. What's your goal?
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly I guess to have extra bacteria available to keep control of the tank, instead of running into a shortage, in the event of me killing too many by over cleaning. I am not purposely doing this but while watching your video, and processing what you were saying--it got me thinking.
@@glentuchscherer968 Just don't scrub your filter out and you'll be fine. Leave the biomedia alone unless it's getting clogged. You need good water flow through it, but otherwise leave it alone. When you do clean it, just rinse it out a bit to get the solid crap out of it, but don't scrub it in hot water or anything. You'll be fine.
@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly Ok--thanks for the help.
Thoughts. How long do bacteria live? Do they consume the same amount of ammonia OR nitrites all their lives? Have you seen people ( Fred’s fish room) deliberately killing off old bacteria with chlorine in order to get new strong fast growing bacteria? My understanding was teenage bacteria work harder than grandfather bacteria.
I agree with everything you said in this video.
Edit Teds fish room
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No idea about the age of bacteria, but I know under optimal conditions, it takes about 36 hours for one generation to divide and multiply. Lol
I would imagine that when I clean out the filter (biomedia) it's getting rid of the old and making way for the new. Deliberately killing it with chlorine seems unnecessary to say the least.
Ok I'm going to play devil's advocate here. In your first video about mechanical filtration you mentioned that over filtering would cause a build up of decaying food and waste and that the only be nicer would be to the keeper not having to change media as often, but that harmful ammonia would still build up and that's not good for the fish. Ok my stand is and tell me I'm wrong or not thinking of everything here which I defently might be but as the waste decays and produces ammonia the biological filter would grow to the level needed to keep it under control like I said maybe I'm looking at it wrong, but anyhow I do like your videos and recommend them to others thank you
I said the waste in the filter would keep producing ammonia. I never said the ammonia would build up. The nitrates are what build up.