Nitrifying Bacteria Under Microscope (API Quick Start)

[CloseIntel]

Thank you for watching! Have a great day:)

[solarflare]

As an aquarist, this really was very interesting to see! Thank you for posting.

It would be really cool if you could post comparisons on other aquarium bacteria products!

Thank you for your videos! Love em.

[Nighthawk]

Awesome! I've always wanted to know if there really was bacteria in there.

[crab]

It'd be pretty cool to see active filter media of an aquarium under a microscope, like a sample of K1 media from an established tank

[GenRN]

I’m an RN and avid aquarist and love seeing this!!!

[Khalrua]

Your videos are a constant source of intrigue and entertainment. Thanks!

[stevegraham]

I was looking after a Sewerage plant for 6 months on a Great Barrier Reef Island Resort.
I got thrown into the job with some chemical target points to reach. About 2 months later a Qualified Treatment Plant Operator arrived onsite and taught me that it was a biological process and not a chemical process.
We took a couple of Mixed Liquor samples, went to the University on the island and borrowed a microscope. Old mate saw what he needed after 10 minutes, explained the different types of creatures, their ages and life cycles, the basic elements of what I was looking at, and was ready to leave,
I sat there for another 3 hours watching the different creatures eat, live, interact, and just generally thrive. It still amazes me to this day.

[christianjorgensen]

This is more like a colony. Interesting. Thank you for your work.

[blazeandcyrus]

Woohooo the Nitrogen cycle! Great video as always.

[pannellclara]

i don’t have an aquarium but i have lots of picky plants that don’t like tap water and i came across a video & a guy saying he uses this for his plants so i bought it and wanted to know how it works! Thank you for posting - i hope this helps other people to know it can be used for plants as well

[michellemcfarland]

I'd like to see, under a microscope, the different phases of the wine-making process. Thank U for your cooolness!! 👍

[KatzenwagenTV]

awesome!!! so that's what it looks like. I was using API Quick Start for a while (but now using Seachem Stability). Thank you for this! :D

[rebeccatexaschick]

As someone who worked in pet stores and a fish specialty store this is really cool to see exactly what this does. I also hand a degree in biology so your videos are already wonderfully appealing to my nerdy side.

[Constantine_Cvl]

Aquarium products like these are helpful, yes, but I personally find that a clogged up piece of filter media helps get the cycle start faster.
It takes less days for ammonia to convert to nitrite and nitrate with it than pre-mixed bacteria, at least, in comparison with the products in my country.

[EveningOfficer]

Dude, I know anyway you could do this would be disgusting, but… it would be so cool to see the human gut microbiome under the microscope.

[Kira.Kills]

Mines had a red worm the size of a mosquito larvae, so it was easily visible

[missy]

There's plants that do the exact same thing I wish I knew when we had fish instead of having to change the water every week but didn't know you could buy it in a bottle, thx for showing.

[GrumpyGillsFishing]

Idk about api stuff, but seachem stability is sold as bacterial spores suspended in liquid. Maybe api is spores as well. Why we don’t see movement.

[freemansaquatics]

This product works I've used it but the true first cycle of an aquarium requires patience if you don't have patience, avoid aquariums 🥂

[mucusman]

How about Seachem stability? I wanna see what im buying lol😅