Aquarium pH: Everything You NEED to KNOW
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- čas přidán 27. 06. 2024
- Hello Everyone,
I wanted to do a more in-depth look at pH and why it matters in the aquarium hobby. Hopefully, this helps us become better aquarists.
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Here is more information about water parameters. Definitely worth a look if you are trying to learn all you can about the subject!
What exactly is the nitrogen cycle? czcams.com/video/dFpN4wXgmfI/video.html
What is Water Hardness? czcams.com/video/xRYdtvakfv0/video.html
How to lower Nitrites: czcams.com/video/3t8yq-ydOaE/video.html
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no one give this much information about pH on whole CZcams, well done sir.👍
Goodwin's Aquatics no kidding brother did awesome!
Thank you Goodwin's Aquatics!
I agree these videos are by far the highest in all of CZcams as far as information. thank you for making and sharing these to us
I wish my high school professor linked chemistry to fish tanks I would’ve been so much more involved
Glad you are here! : -)
mtgsoccer me too
When I was in biology class in Florida it was actually marine biology, we worked in pairs and got to pick the fish we wanted to care for, Then we all started our own tanks.
Could have found a way to apply it yourself.
6:16 if you’re not a chemist.
THANK YOU SIR!!!
You're a great teacher! I have trouble focusing because of cognitive problems but you were super easy to follow, and now I actually understand pH.
Thank you so much! :-)
I finally, sort of, get it. Well done professor.
Thank you!
Science lesson with a bubbling backdrop. Pure ASMR.
Thanks for posting this: it's the clearest explanation of PH I've seen yet. This is just the kind of video I came to CZcams for.
Thank you!
Great detail and clarification on this issue.And you really made the case of having to work with the water you get instead of chemically making radial parameter changes. Jason, good job. You've greatly increased my appreciation of this hobby.
Thank you! Appreciate you watching!
Thank you! You are my go to! Somebody give this man a raise
You are an excellent and generous teacher. This blew apart the nebulous world of pH that I was vague about. Thanks so much and greetings from northern Australia.
one of the best videos ever on the subject, timing couldn’t have been more perfect too
Good to hear. Thanks!
Thank you for spending time to explain pH in detail. Excellent video.
Well done! Extremely informative, thank you!
Great video very informative.
Very informative as always. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Adam
This video was outstanding. I may have watched this before I was ready to absorb it all but I believe this round I have it. Just well done and not common to find this well done an explanation
Thank you! Glad it helped.
Very nice description of the Ph.
I love these in depth videos, very informative, thanks again!
Thank you! Appreciate you watching.
Best explenation video on how best to understand the PH level, I've seen so far! Thank you!
Thank you!
Awesome review of my Bio class! I loved how you put this knowledge into perspective! I certainly hope to see more videos like this from this channel 👍🙂
I have learned more in this video than I did in YEARS of high school and college chemistry.
Thank you professor!! Well understand now, well explained as well.
Great info on pH and simplistic enough for the layman to understand! Well done 😃 I am really enjoying the info you are providing on the science behind our aquariums, thank you!
That was so well done. Thanks so much for making sense of PH. Its not too complicated when well explained.
Good to hear!
Your videos are sooooo incredibly helpful; thank you so much.
As a newbie in the hobby trying to set up my new tank (cycling with danios in), your videos have been monumental! I’m wanting to get the pH down from 8.2 (tank will eventually house corys, a pleco, danios and maybe guppies), and this video made everything clear! God bless you, and thank you again for sharing your knowledge 💙
Thank you for watching!
I finally feel like I'm understanding PH. Thank you for the great information!
Very informative. Thank you
Thank you so much for the explanation.
Excellent video, exactly what I was looking for, thank you!
Good to know!
Thankyou for making this vid.
I really didn't understand pH as much as I thought I did, so you made a big difference to my knowledge of it - many thanks!
It actually surprised me that you could make something that I thought really complex, into something I could almost understand properly - well, enough to make sure that my fish get the pH they need to be healthy and happy, anyway! Lol
Stumbled upon your videos.
Thanks for the wonderful article
Thank you!
What a wonderful explanation. You know what you do. Thank you.
Very well explained, thanks.
Thank you!
Thank you so much for your time and the education you have given us.. i really appreciate this.. after this video I feel like I've become a ph grand wizard
Thank you for watching!
Very thorough. Thank you!
Thank you!
Super impressive breakdown of pH, very clear and easy to understand
Thank you for this gem of a video sir.
Thank you!
Wow great video. Had a bunch of questions going into this video and now have all them answered by the End. You are a great teacher. Very Clear and understandable while still being very deep with all the Science.
Good to hear! Thanks for watching.
Thanks for all the information about pH. Be careful with dehumidifier water. The byproduct of condensing water on aluminum pipes is amonia. About a week ago I measured the amonia level in the dehumidifier water from my furnace/AC, because I wanted to use it to lower the pH in my aquarium. It matched the highest level shown on my API test chart!
Great information! Thank you
Great job. Thanks!
Thank you professor Prime Time!
So glad I clicked on this video. Very educational. Learned a lot. I’ve been out of the fish keeping hobby for a while now and this video is going to make getting back into it much easier. Heck, there wasn’t any internet last tank I had.
I remember those days too :-)
Very informative. Thank you.👍🙏
Excellent. Just what I needed to know!
This was very insightfull! Thank you!!
Aristotle Oracles thanks for watching!
Thank you for the in-depth video! Very well done and informative. Looking forward to an in-depth video about hardness and buffering!
Thank you! We've got more water chemistry videos on the way. : -)
Thanks for this great informative video.
Thank You!
This is the best explanation i ever had... Thank you so much
Thank you for watching!
Thank you so much for this! I learned a lot! I like to go into detail, to really understand! Chemistry is by no means my my home territory and still I could understand because you explained it so well!
Great informative video as usual..
Thank you!
Fantastic! There are a lot of simplified biochem videos available which is great, a lot of people only want/need that, but I am really glad that you have this elaborate explanation. I'd love to see a playlist full of various aquarium chemistry "lectures." Being an academic, I'm probably in the minority, but I'm really thankful there's at least one channel laying it all out!
Thank you! I think more of my water parameter videos are in a playlist together. :-)
Great video 💪🏼
Everything is dizzy and my brain hurts, but this is great information. Never really thought about Ph this in depth. Thank You!
The dizziness goes away with time. Haha
Killer video. Wonderfully explained
Thank you for the advice😊 . I just dosed my tank with Api ph down , as the ph is high in london and in my Aquarium at around 8 . I wish i hadn’t done it now after watching your video. Thanks for the warning to be careful with these products . Great video . I never did chemistry at school . You are an amazing teacher i will explore more gradual natural methods
Thank you so much for watching!
Great video brother
Excellent presentation , glad I found you and subbed . Looking forward to seeing more of your channel.✌️
Thank you!
Best video ever, really helped out
Dude mind blown. Ive been searching for this info. Sorry i got here so late!
LOVELY!!!!! You are awesome, professor! Can’t thank you enough!!!!! 🙏 I enjoyed this video SO MUCH!
Thank you!
pHanks so much that was incredibly informative. :)
I love watching your videos . Never went to college bc I had no interest in any of the usual careers but I always loved learning about biology or any type of science for the most part . Watching your videos is inspiring me to give it a shot 👍🏽 .
Thank you for being here!
Master class. Ty
Just using fluval stratum as my substrate brings my ph from an 7.8 to a 6. Had to add a little bit of crushed coral to balance. Would’ve left it alone but my mystery snails shells were starting to show signs of erosion. So far it’s helped and no chemicals necessary
Great explanation! Felt like I was back in my Chemistry class lol!
What a great feeling huh? : -)
Thanks for the video !
Thank you!
I see you Professor!!! 👍🏾 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾Thanks a lot.!!
I already understood a lot of what you went over, but being led to embrace my tap water is a great idea! I also love the idea of using dehumidifier water. I'll try it very carefully. Our water is very high. Off the charts... literally. I've been trying hard to lower it, and keep it stable. My fish do seem happy, but it's been a multiple times a day effort. Thank you. :)
Thank you for watching!
Way to go brother! You just took me to school! Basic is a new term and better understanding. I always said Alkaline, but that just means buffer capacity etc but in actuality the higher (Basic)
Thanks Deon!
Wooow, I came for some pH knowledge, but I gained little more than pH , thanks u sir,
U really should teach chemistry
Really enjoyed it.
Gosh you are so good at explaining that... I have studied all these things but I used to hate chemistry and bio chemistry and I kind of have forgotten most of it .... I wish I had appreciated them more when I was a student ...
I think we all feel that way when we get out of school. Haha
A must watch!
Thank you!
that was an awesome explanation. I've had 3 years of college level chemistry a million years ago and this was a brain cobweb buster. Thank you. We have a well and I'm dealing with pH close to 9, and soft water related to built in softener. I have a 180 gal Oscar tank, a 125 gal Barb tank with a 14" Pleco and a 20 gal tank with a couple loaches and a chinese algae eater. I'm trying to get the water stabilized to put some small fish, type yet to be determined, in the little tank, probably more Barbs. I'm pretty new at fish keeping, but I'm all in..... definitely learning a lot.
Have fun with your fish!
Thank you!
Amazing you are too good. Thanks for the information.
Thank you!
GREAT VIDEO
Thank you!
Thank you.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Your explanation of the concepts (protons - electrons / Hydrogen - Hydroxide ions) and how it relates to PH made it very easy to understand. For those into planted tanks one nice addition would have been explaining how CO2 lowers PH.
Rod that is a great suggestion. I may do something on the pH of planted tanks and ponds soon.
Omg thank you now I understand the PH.
Good to hear!
thanks you for this big help
Good to hear! Thanks for watching.
Awesome video! I may also suggest not adding water from a dehumidifier since a majority of the time it will contain mold spores unless your humidifier has some kind of filter! Overall, nice video 👍
How can this video not receive a thumbs up? Thank u for this upload. I love what u do.
Thank you!
Dude this video rocks, you rock. My interest in organic and biochemstry is what keeps me loving the hobby. Kuddos to being an educator especially if you're teaching chemistry. #iloveorganicchemistry #molecularbiology
Thank you! I actually teach Microbiology, Biology and Genetics right now, but have taught many other courses in the past. :-)
OH yeah I loved differential testing and gram staining in lab. I Look forward to the videos.
Good video on pH. Have you ever thought about making a video on fish physiology and how pH affects fish (i.e., bohr effect and 2° stress responses)?
I will add it to my list!
Awesome video
Jasmine Young appreciate you watching!
This vid is helpful, thanks.
I want to use pH to help me manage my CO2 levels more carefully.
That info would also be helpful.
Thank you; much appreciated. I keep crustaceans from the NW Atlantic - lobsters & crabs - and bracket my PH @ 8.2 to 8.3. NYC tap water is lower, so it's a constant issue with the major water changes I have to do for these destructive monsters. The biologists state that lower PH interferes with their chemoreceptors and their ability to sense.
Thanks
I really appreciate the biology/chemsitry approach of your videos. I live in Kansas and have a well. I want to keep and potentially breed South American fish, but the pH of my present aquarium is 8.2. I’m working on getting reverse osmosis water and adding organic matter like peat moss and leaf litter. Is it not really possible to maintain a consistent acidic pH because alkalinity is more closely connected to high pH?
As you use more RO water, the alkalinity will come down. Once you balance the RO water and alkalinity you should be able to consistently maintain a lower pH.
Professor, you probably don’t have time, but I think you should create a fish keeping course with all this info. I would pay for that. So appreciative of your expertise.
Thank you for the excellent video Jason! Very informative indeed.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I remember hearing the term logarithmic somewhere but can’t remember where. Maybe precalculus class or statistics class? Maybe trigonometry? Not sure. But it rings a bell! Great video!
Nice 😀
Excellent video I really enjoyed your explanations. Small point - you failed to mention the effect of Carbonate hardness (KH) and its effect on for example, how this acts as a buffer making it difficult when trying to make the water more acidic. Subbed you 👍
It certainly does! I though I discussed that in this video? But you are correct
Ok thank you
Off topic but given your background maybe a subject you would consider doing a future video on is to what degree do water conditioners such as Prime and Ultimate neutralize micro nutrients contained in fertilizers used for planted tanks? Both of these conditioners claim to ( Detoxify heavy metals ) and while there is some discussion on the web I have not found any actual data identifying the nutrients that are affected and to the extent the concentrations are reduced. Maybe it cannot be determined without knowing the chemical formulation of these conditioners but this has always piqued my interest.
That's a nice idea Rod. Thanks for watching
Fantastic video on pH !!! Question: Could a Malawi tank be ok at 7.4 pH ? I currently buffer it up to 8.2 but it comes out the tap at 7.4
I think so. I would drop it down to that level over the course of a month or so and see how they do.
Really enjoy your videos on water chemistry. Do you have any videos about the daily variations in ph that hobbiest can expect to see. Such as for planted vs non planted and siesta period vs no siesta.
I haven't really tested any of my tanks. My tanks might not show a lot of difference because I have high KH so it is buffered well.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics thanks, figured it was worth asking. Thanks for sharing your knowledge on the subject.
my science biology/chemistry teacher will be proud