DrTim's Aquarium Podcast

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10:43 - 1 - Is it ok to use Dr Tim’s First Defense when treating salt water fish with copper? 

11:27 - 2 - Can I use eco balance and waste away at the same time to treat sludge?

16:41 - 3 - Is it ok to use ozone with your products?

20:21 - 4 - Are the menhaden, salmon, river shrimp and Gammarus in your Benefishal fish food farm-raised or wild caught?

21:02 - 5 - What is your reasoning behind not keeping Red Tails?

26:41 - 6 - How do I clear algae from my tank without using so many chemicals?

34:18 - 7 - What species of fish successfully use the mop heads to lay eggs?

36:18 - 8 - Can I use the waste away gel in my planted tank if I’m running CO2?

37:00 - 9 - Fish facts 

39:16 - 10 Is there a probability for the sturgeon to get an infection on the wound from caviar removal?

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00:00 Start

00:53 Intro  

1:12  Things you should know about bacteria in aquariums 

09:38 What products need the winter shipping kit

10:58 My product arrived and it’s slushy. Is it still good?

11:20 What to do with a frozen or slushy product

17:16 My tank is cycled, but my livestock hasn’t arrived

22:09 Waste Away Gels and the cold

25:45 Aquarium equipment and the cold

31:13 Koi ponds and the cold

32:31 Winter preparedness

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00:00 Start

1:14 - 1 -  During the cycling process, do I run my return pump and keep it running? 

02:42 - 2 -  What size Waste-Away gel should I use in my Fluval 13.5?

05:51 - 3 - Day 25 of a fishless cycle. Am I cycled and do I need to do a 90% water change?

08:23 - 4 -  Do I turn off my return pump when I add one and only? When do I turn it back on?

09:20 - 5 - Day 8 of cycling with no changes, what’s wrong?

12:54 - 6 - How much Waste-Away should I use and how often in my mixed reef?

17:24 - 7 - Can I use One and Only to soak the rocks and establish nitrifying bacteria culture after a crash? 

18:44 - 8 - Tank is 6 mos old. 0 nitrate and phosphate, rapid increase in cyano and algae lately. Can I use EcoBalance and Waste-Away instead of Re-Fresh? 

23:55 - 9 - Can I use one and only freshwater for a saltwater tank?

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00:00 Start

00:35 Introduction

01:27 Basic Coral Morphology

02:11 Different Feeding Strategies

04:15 Autotrophy

06:30 Photosynthesis

15:25 Heterotrophy

17:27 Direct uptake of seawater

24:10 Corals and amino acids

24:36 Coral nitrogen budget

29:11 Feeding Brine Shrimp

31:50 Bacteria, its what corals want

35:26 External feeding

Prescription Card for fishless cycling: https://www.drtimsaquatics.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/FishlessCycling_prescription_recipe_Nov23.pdf 

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00:00 Start

00:49 - 1 - Is it possible that the bacterial strains that are in One & Only have a higher affinity for certain kinds of substrates? Do you have a recommendation as to which media is best?

09:18 - 2 -  Help cycling a 112 gallon aquarium? Should I add more ammonia? 

13:31 - 3 - Isn’t a filter sock mechanical filtration??

18:51 - 4 -You talk about heterotrophic and autotrophic bacteria. Can you talk about the different groups of bacteria, what they do, and which kinds are in each of your products? 

25:35 - 5 -Can we do a fishless cycling method in a jar with used aquasoil...without a filter?

28:40 - 6 -Help dealing with a dino outbreak using Waste-Away Gels?

32:48 - 7 - Are the bacteria consuming Nitrates and Phosphates free swimming and not fixed ones?

35:11 - 8 -How about phosphate in our unfiltered tap water? Can promote algae growth as well?

39:38 - 9 - I have some discus fish they are not willing to eat, and some of them they eat but they are too skinny. I am providing them beef heart, Brine and blood worms via mixing with garlic and vitamins. What do you recommend?

44:52 - 10 -How much food should I feed my Flowerhorn?

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00:00 Start

1:52 - 1 - How much Only and Only would I need to get for a 100 gallon indoor stock tank with 8, 5 inch koi? How much product do I use for periodic water changes? Also, If I had to do a complete water change would that be like starting over and using the initial startup amount? 

10:05 - 2 -  Do the biopellets need to be seeded with Waste-Away or Refresh? At what point during the algae removing recipe should I put the biopellet reactor online? 

11:50 - 3 - Is it possible to put refresh, waste away and eco balance on an automatic doser with magnetic stirrers to mix it up prior to dosing?

15:51 - 4 - Cycling a 220g reef tank with rock and sand. I'm on day 6, do I add more ammonia? 

24:47 - 5 - What is the difference between the freshwater and the pond/koi one and only?

25:54 - 6 - Fishless cycling a 20g tank. Should I do a water change if my ammonia is still high?

32:26 - 7 - Which of your products do you recommend to help lower nitrate?

36:23 - 8 - Can Ecobalance be used on a dosing pump splitting the dose daily?

39:02 - 9 - Is the one and only product good for just start ups or is it also good for just maintaining a tank?

43:15 - 10 - Does wrapping the tank in black plastic, with the goal of "preventing ANY lights" from getting into the tank include turning off my refugium light and wrapping it in plastic also?

Article: https://www.drtimsaquatics.com/public-aquarium-and-aquaculture/nitrification-in-marine-aquaria/ 

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00:00 Start

3:30 Traditional view of Nitrification

5:28 What Bacteria Look like 

8:29 Nitrification Classification

10:45 Winogradsky column

12:18 Microbiology 101 

14:11 Culture Bias

17:41 Classic 2-Step Nitrification

26:15 Phylogenetics of Nitrifiers

34:29 Anammox

38:59 AOB-AOA Temperature Dependent

46:33 Comammox

51:19 Effect of Salinity

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Links:

Dinoflagellates Prescription card PDF:  https://www.drtimsaquatics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Dinoflagellates_prescription_recipe.pdf

Mack's Reef Dinoflagellates Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/259474048655429/

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

03:09 - 1 In regards to cycling a tank, wouldn't putting the ammonia in first, before the One and Only, be best?

05:00 - 2 Rare fish and stubborn Dinos

07:18 - 3 What is the cockroach of the bacteria world?

10:58 - 4 How about phosphate in our unfiltered tap water? Can promote algae growth as well?

11:36 - 5 Once the bottle of Ammonium Chloride is open does it go bad?

14:52 - 6 One and Only and overwintering Koi in a bare bottom tank in the basement

17:30 - 7 Controlling nutrients in a 400 gallon reef tank.

26:43 - 8 Detailed instruction on how to use Waste Away to treat the Dinos in my 20 gallon reef

35:10 - 9 When should I turn my protein skimmer back on when using One and Only?

38:39 - 10 How to treat small cell amphidinium dinoflagellates using Waste-Away and Refresh?

42:08 - 11 Best treatment for dinos...waste away or dino treatment kit?

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