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From: "shaji (s.) bhaskar" <bhaskar at bnr_ca>
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 18:14:00 -0400
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From: stevensj at calshp_cals.wisc.edu
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Subject: Re: Nitrates (was HELP! High CO2)
To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 95 13:05:49 CDT
> From: huntley at ix_netcom.com (WRIGHT HUNTLEY )
> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 13:37:26 -0700
> Subject: Re: HELP! High CO2
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> Joanne,
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> Your upset nitrogen cycle and the hard water partial change rang a
> bell. Have you checked for nitrates in your tap water? Many hard water
> areas receive agricultural runoff into the aquifers, and can show up
> with surprisingly high levels of nitrates. We sure get it, at times,
> here in Santa Clara. They too, can distress fish.
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> Wright
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Wright,
I did not check the nitrates in the water, but the nitrates in that
tank were below 10 ppm on Saturday so I took about 5 gals water from
another tank that had nitrates >40 ppm & "swapped" it with 5 gals
water in that tank. I hoped that might also help with the nitrogen
cycle.
Joanne.