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Do Plants add oxygen to freshwater aquariums
I have a fish tank,freshwater. do plants like Elodia and Banana Lillies
convert Ammonia to oxygen please??/ If NOT what plants do??? TIA.. PJ |
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Do Plants add oxygen to freshwater aquariums
On Sun, 21 May 2006 19:59:09 +1000, "PJ"
wrote: I have a fish tank,freshwater. do plants like Elodia and Banana Lillies convert Ammonia to oxygen please??/ If NOT what plants do??? TIA.. PJ They convert carbon dioxide to oxygen in the period when it's light, the other way around when it's dark. They absorb ammonia, turn it into plant material. |
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Do Plants add oxygen to freshwater aquariums
PJ wrote:
I have a fish tank,freshwater. do plants like Elodia and Banana Lillies convert Ammonia to oxygen please??/ If NOT what plants do??? Nothing can convert ammonia (NH3) to oxygen (O2). Now, all plants will consume ammonia for the nitrogen and release oxygen from carbon dioxide. The faster growing plants with sufficient light, will consume ammonia faster. However, no healthy cycled tank should have measurable ammonia anyway. So, if you can measure it, there's something wrong with your tank. -- Victor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam he Email me he |
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Do Plants add oxygen to freshwater aquariums
PJ wrote: I have a fish tank,freshwater. do plants like Elodia and Banana Lillies convert Ammonia to oxygen please??/ If NOT what plants do??? TIA.. PJ Plants split water, use the H+ to make ATP in the chloroplast, use the electron to drive the light reactions in photosynthesis ultimately to produce NDPH whichb si used to reduce things like oxidized CO2 into reduced forms of sugars which are burned for metabolism, just like when you eat candy, (the sugar is made from plants) and the waste from this process is O2. 2H20 = O2 + 4e- + 4H+ Ammonia is assimilated into Glutamine in the chloroplast directly and then made into other amino acids and proteins, DNA/RNA and enzymes etc. Most any submersed plant should produce O2, Egeria densa is the name for the Elodea/Anacharis and it's quite good at adding O2 during the day. If you over load ther tank, the ability for the plants to provide enough O2 and remove enough NH4 is compromised as more and moire fish are added. In general, it's best to provide the fish with a good home and plenty of space. Plants help. If you keep plants, learn to grow them, they work much better than slowly rotting away which adds neither O2 nor removes NH4. Regards, Tom Barr www.BarrReport.com |
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Do Plants add oxygen to freshwater aquariums
WOW... TY... PJ
wrote in message oups.com... PJ wrote: I have a fish tank,freshwater. do plants like Elodia and Banana Lillies convert Ammonia to oxygen please??/ If NOT what plants do??? TIA.. PJ Plants split water, use the H+ to make ATP in the chloroplast, use the electron to drive the light reactions in photosynthesis ultimately to produce NDPH whichb si used to reduce things like oxidized CO2 into reduced forms of sugars which are burned for metabolism, just like when you eat candy, (the sugar is made from plants) and the waste from this process is O2. 2H20 = O2 + 4e- + 4H+ Ammonia is assimilated into Glutamine in the chloroplast directly and then made into other amino acids and proteins, DNA/RNA and enzymes etc. Most any submersed plant should produce O2, Egeria densa is the name for the Elodea/Anacharis and it's quite good at adding O2 during the day. If you over load ther tank, the ability for the plants to provide enough O2 and remove enough NH4 is compromised as more and moire fish are added. In general, it's best to provide the fish with a good home and plenty of space. Plants help. If you keep plants, learn to grow them, they work much better than slowly rotting away which adds neither O2 nor removes NH4. Regards, Tom Barr www.BarrReport.com |
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Do Plants add oxygen to freshwater aquariums
Dont want to appear pedantic but isn't it Ammonium (NH4) that plants use and
not Ammonia (NH3) - or do they use both?? -- Best regards Mark Baldwin wrote in message oups.com... PJ wrote: I have a fish tank,freshwater. do plants like Elodia and Banana Lillies convert Ammonia to oxygen please??/ If NOT what plants do??? TIA.. PJ Plants split water, use the H+ to make ATP in the chloroplast, use the electron to drive the light reactions in photosynthesis ultimately to produce NDPH whichb si used to reduce things like oxidized CO2 into reduced forms of sugars which are burned for metabolism, just like when you eat candy, (the sugar is made from plants) and the waste from this process is O2. 2H20 = O2 + 4e- + 4H+ Ammonia is assimilated into Glutamine in the chloroplast directly and then made into other amino acids and proteins, DNA/RNA and enzymes etc. Most any submersed plant should produce O2, Egeria densa is the name for the Elodea/Anacharis and it's quite good at adding O2 during the day. If you over load ther tank, the ability for the plants to provide enough O2 and remove enough NH4 is compromised as more and moire fish are added. In general, it's best to provide the fish with a good home and plenty of space. Plants help. If you keep plants, learn to grow them, they work much better than slowly rotting away which adds neither O2 nor removes NH4. Regards, Tom Barr www.BarrReport.com |
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