Pschmitt
Aquarium Advice Freak
Ran across this link and wanted to share it. Interesting thread.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1939508
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1939508
Acclimation....
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Pschmitt
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Wow. Really? No one reading this? Must not be as enlightening as "How to clean your skimmer?".
Aziethe
Aquarium Advice Newbie
high amonia
Interesting thread.. I still don't get why the amonia spikes after the bag is opened.... Anyone that can expain that?
Interesting thread.. I still don't get why the amonia spikes after the bag is opened.... Anyone that can expain that?
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Pschmitt
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Sealed bag: the fish respires co2 into the water. This drops the ph. The fish poos. But the low ph keeps the pollution in the form of harmless ammonium.
Open bag: co2, trapped in the water and held there by the pressure, gasses off quickly and leaves the water. PH then rises fast, causing non-toxic ammonium to become toxic ammonia.
This assumes non-chemist me has got the rises and falls the right way around: but this is what happens. It was ammonium, which doesn't smell and is harmless, and mutates rapidly to stinky, highly toxic ammonia.
(From the thread)
Open bag: co2, trapped in the water and held there by the pressure, gasses off quickly and leaves the water. PH then rises fast, causing non-toxic ammonium to become toxic ammonia.
This assumes non-chemist me has got the rises and falls the right way around: but this is what happens. It was ammonium, which doesn't smell and is harmless, and mutates rapidly to stinky, highly toxic ammonia.
(From the thread)
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