Hi Dr Novak! I’ve learned so much from you and really appreciate your work. I have a question about weight distribution using plenums. On top of the plenum (covered with screening, of course) should I add a piece of egg crate to help distribute the weight of heavy rocks or will the plenum suffice? Thanks again ☀️🌊🐟🐠🏝️
I want to build a plenum for a saltwater tank. Do i build it the same way as a freshwater one, or do i need to make changes to it? I was thinking filter plate, kitty litter, and then some aragonite sand.
Thanks Dr Novak. From what I have observed with baked clay over the past couple of years, it does absorb any colour out of the water. I've experimented with methylene blue, malachite green, tannins, etc. Within about an hour or two all the colour is gone and water is crystal clear and I don't use any form of activated carbon in my aquariums. Maybe this effect may vary according to the various types of clay used in different brands of kitty litter. The clay I use is from broken baked red clay pots since I could not get the non clumping variety of kitty litter locally and it works fine and maintains zero nitrates. I only now do between 10% to 20% water change every two weeks just to replace minerals & evaporation. Before it used to be 40% water change weekly and I used to get nitrates between 40 & 80ppm sometimes even crossing 100ppm. Thank you once again for introducing me to the anoxic system. 👌👍
I have a question I’ve been thinking about no water change anoxic system its good my nitrates are under 10ppm lower than my tap water. with heavy feeding is there is the growth hormone going to significantly stunt the fish in my case gold fish
Hi Dr. Novak, this is amazing! I’m a PhD student at hopkins who also loves the fish keeping hobby. Do you think instead of the canister filter I could connect this to a smaller tank? I want to run a small refugium or frag tank to this
I wouldn’t want to spend all of that money for an IM aquarium and then fill it a qtr of the way with substrate… in comparison I think bare bottom looks better. To each his own tho
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Hi Dr Novak! I’ve learned so much from you and really appreciate your work. I have a question about weight distribution using plenums. On top of the plenum (covered with screening, of course) should I add a piece of egg crate to help distribute the weight of heavy rocks or will the plenum suffice? Thanks again ☀️🌊🐟🐠🏝️
I want to build a plenum for a saltwater tank. Do i build it the same way as a freshwater one, or do i need to make changes to it? I was thinking filter plate, kitty litter, and then some aragonite sand.
Thanks Dr Novak. From what I have observed with baked clay over the past couple of years, it does absorb any colour out of the water. I've experimented with methylene blue, malachite green, tannins, etc. Within about an hour or two all the colour is gone and water is crystal clear and I don't use any form of activated carbon in my aquariums. Maybe this effect may vary according to the various types of clay used in different brands of kitty litter. The clay I use is from broken baked red clay pots since I could not get the non clumping variety of kitty litter locally and it works fine and maintains zero nitrates. I only now do between 10% to 20% water change every two weeks just to replace minerals & evaporation. Before it used to be 40% water change weekly and I used to get nitrates between 40 & 80ppm sometimes even crossing 100ppm.
Thank you once again for introducing me to the anoxic system. 👌👍
I have a question I’ve been thinking about no water change anoxic system its good my nitrates are under 10ppm lower than my tap water. with heavy feeding is there is the growth hormone going to significantly stunt the fish in my case gold fish
That's really good thick substrate doc 😮
Thank you for sharing Dr. Novak!
Doc I did see you use BCB bags in the filter system , I know you know what you’re doing , but just asking
Hi Dr. Novak, this is amazing! I’m a PhD student at hopkins who also loves the fish keeping hobby. Do you think instead of the canister filter I could connect this to a smaller tank? I want to run a small refugium or frag tank to this
Yes, absolutely
@ thank you so much! I just got the automated roller fleece as well! Thanks for all your educational videos!
hi, since cat litter is so cheap, and it processes ammonia, why dont they make little bcb filters to stick in bags for shipping fish?
Cost...
I think thats way too many mollies/platys and cory cats for the volume of water in that tank
I’m not worried about tannins, they are even beneficial for most tropical fish.
I wouldn’t want to spend all of that money for an IM aquarium and then fill it a qtr of the way with substrate… in comparison I think bare bottom looks better. To each his own tho
That is a deep subtrate