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Can you use too much Seachem Matrix?
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No. What do you think will happen?
The colony of micro-organisms that consume ammonia and nitrite will grow or die back depending on how much ammonia is available for it to consume. There will be an upper limit to how big a colony your tank can support which will depend on how much surface area is available for these micro-organisms to grow on. There could come a point when there is so much ammonia that your system simply cant grow that much because its already full. I have to say ive never seen this happen.
More matrix would add more surface area to your surface so potentially it could support more micro-organisms. But if your system already has enough filter media to support a large enough colony of micro-organisms to consume all the ammonia, adding more filter material simply wont do anything. It wont grow more micro-organisms unless you also add more ammonia into the water, ie more fish. It will do nothing bad, it will just sit there. Some micro-organisms will colonise the new filter media, but some micro-organisms elsewhere will die off. Overall things will stay the same.
The colony of micro-organisms that consume ammonia and nitrite will grow or die back depending on how much ammonia is available for it to consume. There will be an upper limit to how big a colony your tank can support which will depend on how much surface area is available for these micro-organisms to grow on. There could come a point when there is so much ammonia that your system simply cant grow that much because its already full. I have to say ive never seen this happen.
More matrix would add more surface area to your surface so potentially it could support more micro-organisms. But if your system already has enough filter media to support a large enough colony of micro-organisms to consume all the ammonia, adding more filter material simply wont do anything. It wont grow more micro-organisms unless you also add more ammonia into the water, ie more fish. It will do nothing bad, it will just sit there. Some micro-organisms will colonise the new filter media, but some micro-organisms elsewhere will die off. Overall things will stay the same.
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