The NITROGEN CYCLE - What Most Aquarists Miss

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Thanks for featuring our test kit 🙂

[@BRSfresh]

It’s awesome!

[@ClownTRON777]

This video came right on time lol I had an outbreak of parasites and the meds put me in a mini cycle right now thank God I checked the water last night keeping an eagle eye on the tank and using prime.

[@BRSfresh]

YIKES! Water changes and hopefully you’ll be back! I dropped a video on Monday about treating diseases quarantining if that helps!

[@craig933]

Commenting for some engagement and to also ask for the voice audio to be louder next time :D compared to a lot of other videos this is quite quiet. Keep it up, great video

[@BRSfresh]

Thanks for the feedback and for watching!

[@JoeyPierce]

There's also ammonium. I spent months wondering how my fish kept getting bacterial infection until I went over to my air pump where I don't usually go & the area stunk of pee (dog pee) turned out my dogs had been peeing off their tray onto my mat & it had soaked through to the tiled floor. After I cleaned it all up & threw the mat away so the dogs couldn't pee there I never had the bacteria infections come back. It must have been drawing ammonium through the air pump & defusing it into the tank

[@BRSfresh]

Wow! First I heard of something like that - good detective work!

[@JoeyPierce]

@BRSfresh the bacterial infections cleared up immediately and within a day the fish (fancy goldfish) stopped being lethargic (they were lethargic for months) and were swimming around happily & have ever since

[@BRSfresh]

Nicely done! 🙌

[@ADUAquascaping]

Ammonium is dissolved in a liquid at a 6.4 pH or lower. Is your tank below 6.4 pH? If not, then it was ammonia. Ammonia is less stable and will oxidize lipids in cell membranes. This is why we never raise our pH without doing a water change first because the ammonium will transition to ammonia as we increase the pH without doing a prior water change. This usually applies more to African cichlid tanks where someone may want to increase their carbonate hardness after neglecting their tank, for example.

[@BRSfresh]

Wow! Thanks for sharing such an in depth response - just subscribed to your channel!

[@elpatotengu31]

I’m trying to cycle my tank. I bought this bacteria bottle but I did not dose the proper amount (instructions are in Japanese) so I did an 80% water change when amonia went over 6ppm and now I’m waiting after adding more bacteria (the proper amount) . Still no living animals in the tank. But the nitrites and nitrates are not going up (maybe a lot of plants in the tank) and the amonia test that I can find are really shit (test strips) . I’m patiently waiting but I want to add my shrimps asap

[@BRSfresh]

Definitely get a good test kit! But sounds like you’re on the right track!

[@elpatotengu31]

@ yesterday I saw a considerable increase in Nitrites and Nitrates, the Montecarlo seems to be thriving aswell , so I am happy! In doing daily check ups. Thank you for the answer I’m already subscribed ! Great content

[@BRSfresh]

Thank you 🙏 Please ask any questions along the way!

[@ima1andonly]

all my fish died within the span of 2 days, 3 Died by trying to go in the filter and 2 died out of no where with nothing to kill them? is it the water?

[@Langelmaki]

Get a water test kit and check your water parameters, just like you saw in the video

[@BRSfresh]

Agreed- without water testing it would be hard to know what happened. Sorry to hear that! A comprehensive test kit would give you an idea of what may have been going on giving you time to react before it was too late. I hope you aren’t discouraged- get back out there and go again! Most of us have experienced tough lessons one way or the other. Ask whatever questions you have along the way.

[@omare7475]

Hard to follow with the loud music

[@BRSfresh]

Sorry to hear that! We will pay close attention to that on this Friday’s release. Please let us know if it’s better! Thanks for watching 😁