How are you going to get rid of it? The ammonia has to break down somewhere in the tank or death will occur with rising ammonia (then the nitrite after it). It does not really matter where the aerobic processes breaks down the ammonia/ammonium and nitrite, but it will happen somewhere.
This was my whole point that people who removed bio balls thought that the just got to skip the middle part, but it just happened in other places in the tank. There is no skipping the middle part once you have ammonia.
BTW - I am ignoring somebody who might use a media to absorb ammonia.
This was my whole point that people who removed bio balls thought that the just got to skip the middle part, but it just happened in other places in the tank. There is no skipping the middle part once you have ammonia.
BTW - I am ignoring somebody who might use a media to absorb ammonia.