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no one give this much information about pH on whole KZfaq, well done sir.👍

I wish my high school professor linked chemistry to fish tanks I would’ve been so much more involved

6:16 if you’re not a chemist.

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.

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 KZfaq for.

I finally, sort of, get it. Well done professor.

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! 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.

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 💙

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 for spending time to explain pH in detail. Excellent video.

Well done! Extremely informative, thank you!

one of the best videos ever on the subject, timing couldn’t have been more perfect too

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 👍🙂

Great video very informative.

I love these in depth videos, very informative, thanks again!

Very informative as always. Thanks for sharing.

That was so well done. Thanks so much for making sense of PH. Its not too complicated when well explained.

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!

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

Thank you professor!! Well understand now, well explained as well.

Best explenation video on how best to understand the PH level, I've seen so far! Thank you!

Science lesson with a bubbling backdrop. Pure ASMR.

Excellent video, exactly what I was looking for, thank you!

Thank you so much for the explanation.

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.

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

I finally feel like I'm understanding PH. Thank you for the great information!

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

What a wonderful explanation. You know what you do. Thank you.

I have learned more in this video than I did in YEARS of high school and college chemistry.

Very nice description of the Ph.

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!

Very informative. Thank you.👍🙏

Very informative. Thank you

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 information! Thank you

Excellent presentation , glad I found you and subbed . Looking forward to seeing more of your channel.✌️

Great job. Thanks!

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!

Everything is dizzy and my brain hurts, but this is great information. Never really thought about Ph this in depth. Thank You!

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.

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 for the in-depth video! Very well done and informative. Looking forward to an in-depth video about hardness and buffering!

Super impressive breakdown of pH, very clear and easy to understand

Very well explained, thanks.

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 👍🏽 .

Stumbled upon your videos. Thanks for the wonderful article

Excellent. Just what I needed to know!

Very thorough. Thank you!

Thank you for this gem of a video sir.

Great video 💪🏼

Great informative video as usual..

LOVELY!!!!! You are awesome, professor! Can’t thank you enough!!!!! 🙏 I enjoyed this video SO MUCH!

Thanks for this great informative video.

This was very insightfull! Thank you!!

This is the best explanation i ever had... Thank you so much

Master class. Ty

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 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 professor Prime Time!

Best video ever, really helped out

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.

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)

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.

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.

pHanks so much that was incredibly informative. :)

To be honest, i was hesitant to learn about PH because i was afraid it would be too involved, and i wouldn't understand it. This video put all those fears to rest, and i walked away knowing more than i did before. Thank you for the video!

Dude mind blown. Ive been searching for this info. Sorry i got here so late!

Killer video. Wonderfully explained

Great information thanks! Now I can start to use the water from my dehumidifier (in small doses) to improve the ph and hopefully my plants. Can you tell me what would cause the ph in my tank to be around 8.2 but tap water is only 7.2? Ammonia, nitrates and nitrites are all in balance. I don't dose at all and no CO2.

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.

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 👍

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 for the video !

Hey when you mean reactive do you mean like "acidly reactive" where it can react to like burning? And also what does basic mean in the scale?

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?

Hi Jason , other Jason again . I once asked you about the effects of boiling the water first . after you answer i canned that idea and what ive done is I now treat the water with muriatic acid and test it 3 days later. I still have only tested without adding it to the tank , and it definetly works , took me while to get the right amount of acid to put in but i can now constantly get ph down to about 6.2 ( its around 8.2 out the tap) . what will the method im testing now have on the water hardness , im hoping not much . Look forward to your comments

Great video brother

Hi! Thanks for the clear video. My water comes out of the tap at a ph of 7.4 but rapidly goes up to 8.0-8.2 in all my tanks regardless of what decor is in it, what could be causing this? This also happens if i keep the water in just a bucket. Is thi dangerous to my fish? As the change in ph happens rapidly in a matter of hours.

Hey Jason, specific question. My tap ph is 7.0 but I keep my tank at 8.2 for african cichlids. For years I’ve been using Malawi buffer during every water change to keep my PH at 8.2. I’d like to stop using the buffer so I’m thinking of adding aragonite sand to my substrate and crushed coral to my canister to buffer my water. Question is, with this setup, if I do 80% water change as usual and add tap water at 7.0 without the Malawi buffer, will this setup still safely get my water back to 8.2 PH? Or am I better off adding Malawi buffer forever? 🤦🏼‍♂️ Thanks for your help!

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)?

Amazing you are too good. Thanks for the information.

I have a planted tank with one small driftwood.What would change my ph from 7.4 to a ph 5.6? All I do is tank maintenance one a week my filter is a sponge filter.

hi ,my tap water is coming out at 8 like yours. running my tanks for over a year but recently ph is reading 6! yellow on API test , running a rack of sumps sponge floss and media. some large wood .i added aragonite when tanks where set up to buff the water .do you recommend adding anything ? i need my ph stable . thanks love your videos :)

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

Great video. But... what are my options for keeping a stable PH in an 8g planted tank? I just started tank. Mopani wood did bring buffer PH a small amount. From around 8 from tap, to around 7.5. I have no dehumidifier or RO. How do I keep mine stable for plants and possibly Cory’s, Shrimp, Betta or Honey Gourami, live bearers? I haven’t decided what fish until tank has cycled. I’m so confused! As with a lot of people, I started this tank without enough research!!!!

I see you Professor!!! 👍🏾 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾Thanks a lot.!!

I bought a 30 gallon a couple weeks ago and have been letting it cycle. Today i got a master test kit and checked all my parameters. 0 amonia and nitrite, with a nitrate around 10 ppm, but my ph was an 8. I checked my tapwater and it was 8.8, which is high as my test would read. Theres a natural springs by my house and it tested a 6, which is low as my test would read. So my question is, could I mix water from the 2 sources and get a neutral ph or am i just boned?

Great explanation! Felt like I was back in my Chemistry class lol!

Thank you!

Question for you, I have a community freshwater tank with tetras and would like my pH to be just slightly below what it is out of tap which is about 7.8, would using seachem regulator or another pH correct product when doing water change to the water I'm adding and be consistent about it then checking pH each time would be okay? I just feel that 7.8 is too high for the community fish I'm keeping although they are not dying from it as you said stability is everything. Did you recommend lowering the pH and would you recommend doing this method or using driftwood? Also I have quite a bit of cor al and shells in there all natural but they have not seem to alter the pH in this tank compared to the tanks I do not have it in.

When doing these water changes, is it ok to leave fish in the tank? I have a 15 g with 10 harlequin rasboras and they are tough to catch. Love your videos and real in depth explanations keep them coming!

Great video. I was hoping you would explain why/how ph affects a fish. Why are sudden changes bad? What does it do yo the fish?

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.

Hi. Very interesting... What to do if I have tap water ph 6.5 and I want to keep african cichlids? Haw to change water in that situation? Thank you very much.

I really do appreciate you spreading your knowledge to us fishkeepers👍. I just had a question, so I am planning to add pressurized co2 system into my aqurium, and I've heard that the co2 will lower the pH. The pH in my aqurium is 7.4. Do you know if it actaully does, and if it does. What will the co2 drop the pH to?

Thank you.