Re: [APD] Getting shot of Nitrate Xperiment

[Stuart Halliday <stuart at mytriops_com>]

I believe Robert T. Ricketts wrote this email section below:
> Stuart Halliday wrote, in part:
> 
>> TAN?
> 
> TAN = Total Ammonia Nitrogen. What most hobby tests read, with no
> differentiation between ammonium ion (NH4+, bound or free) and dissolved
> ammonia gas (NH3).


Oh thanks for that. We just call it TA over here. :-)


> And further wrote:
> 
>> The fishless ammonia cycle took the longest to plough through...
> 
> Did you use any bacterial inoculation?  Without such it is open-ended.

Does the substrate and the internal filter sponge count?
:-)


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