Re: [APD] Seachem Flourish Nitrogen

[Greg Morin <greg at seachem_com>]

Thank you Scott for clarifying, yes, this is entirely a correct description of the situation..

-Greg Morin

> I think Dr. Morin is saying that a nitrate test only shows
> nitrate (or nitrogen from nitrate and then you convert to
> get the nitrate value) and not other forms of nitrogen that
> are not from nitrate such as Flourish Nitrogen has. Half
> the nitrogen in Flourish Nitrogen is in the non-nitrate
> form. So if you tank has no nitrate and you add Flourish
> Nitrogen and measure 5 ppm nitrate, then the amount of
> nitrogen you added is equivalent to having added 10 ppm of
> nitrate.
>
> If your tank has 8 ppm nitrate and you add Flourish
> Nitrogen and measure 13 ppm nitrate, then the the total
> nitrogen you added is equivalent to 10 ppm so you could
> treat a measurement of 13 ppm in that case as 18 ppm.
>
> Hope that helps more than it confuses,


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