J.Mcpeak
Aquarium Advice Addict
Water conditioners are not all equal?
Precisely!
That is my point sir! (I assume?)
Water conditioners are not all equal?
Zeolite study, test removal TAN. Page 4. 100% (breakthrough) after 33 hrs.
http://www.wasteminz.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/TREATMENT-OF-LANDFILL-LEAHCATE-USING-ZEOLITE.pdf
Toxic NH3 ammonia can be remove or detoxified by products such as Prime, Ammo Lock, or Amquel but this is a short term solution to proper bio filtration.
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Aquarium Nitrogen Cycle | Cycling Methods | Ammonia & Nitrates
Ammonia calculator
Nitrogen-Ion Conversion Chart
Zeolite vs heavy metals study (mind bending chemistry)
http://www.yourncdinfo.com/clinoptilolite-heavy-metal-cations-removal.pdf
Zeolite data sheet
http://www.zeolite-products.com/ktml2/files/uploads/msds.pdf
I'm not a man of science!
Some of these papers would take me a day to decode. Which would lead me to more papers explaining the paper. (Mind bending science) I am struggling to learn, it's about the only thing I've applied myself to post GCSE (do they still call them that?)
I Bunked, skunked and flunked, my school years!
The answers though are quite clear, at least to me. I'll admit though that most of this stuff I really struggle with but repetition makes it sink in! Right at the start of my Fishkeeping expedition the pH/gh/Kh took about 3-6 months to make any kind of sense to me, some of you may just read this and go, ok that's that, move on but phew, I use my hands not my head.
Why did I bother? Well the LFS couldn't make up its mind up on some things so I thought I'd better find out for myself. I would say I'm dedicated to it now, even though by science standards I am a rookie/noob/T boy etc.
(I don't wear the lab coats, I collect them for the cleaners!)
Neither am I but I have this thing inside me that just has to understand or try to at least. Most of the stuff I read you would have had to have studied science day in day out to even begin to understand.
I have posted a question in the aquaria off topic section. Maybe you could help. I will be starting a thread with regards to nitrite toxicity towards fish in our aquariums too later if you care to drop in.
Yes, I know of a better chap though, aqua_chem. it's just the job for him.