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garyroland    ---Prime Fish--- Posts: 7878 Kudos: 4010 Votes: 103 Registered: 31-Dec-2001   | "Frustration" is the best desc A new hobbyist looks forward to enjoying his/her trops without the deadly results of fish waste getting in the way. If you or I had to live in a waste environment, sooner or later the "Grim Reaper" would come to visit. That's exactly what happens to tropical fish when forced to live in water that is constantly being polluted by their own waste. Now, if you've read this far, you've acquired some knowledge of what is commonly called "cycling", so called because everything bacterial is going around in circles. The "Circle" One bacteria consumes a food source and produces a waste nutrient that another bacteria consumes and another nutrient is produced as waste that no bacteria consumes. Nitrate waste is at the end of the line of this cycle and can be consumed by plants as a source of fertilizer or diluted by partial water changes. Some new hobbyists, those who have read up on the process of cycling, have chosen to start with a hardy variety of trops that can withstand the onslaught of ammonia until the nitrifying bacteria, the type that consume ammonia, can increase their populations and begin the feast on a super large scale. We're dealing here with a few different strains of bacterium. They're in communion with each other. The community shares one particular purpose: get the job done. But, there's a hitch, a sort of glitch in the bacteria community that can become dangerous. You've heard the phrase "nothing lives forever". Sadly, that applies to bacteria as well. Some strains, once happy in what they were doing, begin to wear out from the workload and pass on to that Great Bacteria Place in the Sky. The remaining strains, as with most all bacteria, decide this is a good time to take over the show and prove what they can do. Unfortunately, they just don't have the moxie required to prove their worth. And now, long after the cycling process was sucessfully completed and smiles were on every new hobbyist's faces, doom sets in. NEXT: Now what!!?? --garyroland. |
 Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:19 |     |
krige   Big Fish Posts: 405 Kudos: 1088 Votes: 377 Registered: 24-Jul-2003  | Viewed and appreciated as per normal Gibson SG you know you want one!! |
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