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Plants dying quickly. Help needed please.
It gets converted to ammonia, but not 100%..there is still an equilibrium, and there is
still ammonium available. Cris wrote: On Fri, 09 May 2003 09:47:49 -0400, Rich Conley wrote: One more thing - ammonia is poisonous to plants as well as the fish. The plants can only utilize ammonium, nitrites and nitrates. NOt tottally true. The plants may only absorb Ammonium, and not ammonia(not sure)...but even so, theres always an equilibrium between the two, so if the plants are eating all the Ammonium, a lot of the ammonia will convert into Ammonium. It's my understanding (from what I've read) that ammonium gets converted to ammonia if the ph is above 7. I've seen plants rot very quickly in uncycled tanks with ph 7.2 and measurable ammonia and then flourish as soon as that ammonia spike is turned into a nitrite spike. Cris |
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