Re: Low pH nitrification

[Matthew William Mengerink <mengerin@cs.utexas.edu>]

Howdy,

>  Let me get this straight, nitrate spontaneously arises in our low pH
>  aquariums, kinda like maggots from meat, well I'll be damned.  Where's
>  Mark Weiss?  Any Microbiologists on board? Some bacteria is doing
>  something to convert ammonia to nitrite to nitrate regardless of pH.  I
>  have seen it, proven it and could care less what some fossil wrote in a
>  book.

Aaah, come on Roger, if you put in some pH Vital in acidic water it
converts it into a humic acid found in peat moss which has the side affect
of having plants grow and apistos breeding like mad.

:)

				Cheers,
				Matthew


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