Tostada
Aquarium Advice Freak
Waiting for my tank to finish cycling, and I thought back to a few years ago in college...
I had two roommates. One was a great guy. One was a really obnoxions hypochondriac. He was obnoxious for a lot of reasons other than being a hypochondriac, he just happened to also always be whining about health concerns. So one day when I was done working on a chem lab, I peed in an Erlenmeyer Flask and left it on top of the TV, since he mostly watched TV when he was around (incessantly commenting on how dumb he thought what he was watching was).
Mr. Obnoxious refused to touch it, so nobody disposed of it, and it only took a couple days until there was definitely something growing on the surface. By the end of a week, it looked like some kind of dead white jellyfish. At that point I finally dumped it out and threw it away.
Anyway, I was thinking of that, and I thought human urine had ammonia in it, but I just did some looking, and I guess it's not really ammonia. It's kind of like neutralized ammonia (human urine contains urea, which is its own molecule).
So, I was just wondering if anybody knew about the bacteria that grew in human urine vs. the bacteria that get rid of ammonia in an aquarium.
I was thinking that would be really funny if peeing in an aquarium could jump-start the nitrogen cycle. It looks like that's not the case, but I was just curious if anybody knew anything about it.
I had two roommates. One was a great guy. One was a really obnoxions hypochondriac. He was obnoxious for a lot of reasons other than being a hypochondriac, he just happened to also always be whining about health concerns. So one day when I was done working on a chem lab, I peed in an Erlenmeyer Flask and left it on top of the TV, since he mostly watched TV when he was around (incessantly commenting on how dumb he thought what he was watching was).
Mr. Obnoxious refused to touch it, so nobody disposed of it, and it only took a couple days until there was definitely something growing on the surface. By the end of a week, it looked like some kind of dead white jellyfish. At that point I finally dumped it out and threw it away.
Anyway, I was thinking of that, and I thought human urine had ammonia in it, but I just did some looking, and I guess it's not really ammonia. It's kind of like neutralized ammonia (human urine contains urea, which is its own molecule).
So, I was just wondering if anybody knew about the bacteria that grew in human urine vs. the bacteria that get rid of ammonia in an aquarium.
I was thinking that would be really funny if peeing in an aquarium could jump-start the nitrogen cycle. It looks like that's not the case, but I was just curious if anybody knew anything about it.