Re: Fwd: Re: rising pH and ammonia

[swaldron@slip.net (Steven J. Waldron)]

Ed wrote:
>Steve--Tim Hovanec of Marineland wrote an article in TFH (I think) about
>a year or so ago about biological filtration that was radical in that he
>was unable to find some of the bacteria which was supposed to do the
>biological filtration under certain circumstances.  I don't recall
>whether it was nitrosomonas or nitrobacter or both bacteria, but Tim's
>tests for the bacteria showed some of them not to be in some of the
>places where one would expect them to be.  Tim Hovanec has spoken a
>couple of times at the PCCA and at the San Francisco Aquarium Society.
>Perhaps someone else on this list has some more info. I don't recall
>what issue the topic was covered in, but I think it might have appeared
>on at least one other magazine as a side-bar or short news article.

 Great Ed, if you can dig up a reference on that, I would appreciate it.