*your ammonia tester isn't what tells you about the tipping point
its the cloud
the smell
the fish who must hover at the very top/even sideways if possible so a gill is as close to o2 as possible, since the gills are burned by literally any free ammonia that remains in the tenths. nh3 is utter devastation, exactly like kidney failure in dogs or cats, there is no time that free ammonia is present at unsafe levels as an 'irritant'
its lethal, in a day, when uncontrolled. that's why you can depend on a safe start, you have tons of surface area already passing the test. I estimate that set of rocks can carry forty fish, right now lol
though if you do that, crypto n brook...lol
that's how much nh3 it can control right now, though you've only brought in one fish.
*bacteria does not adjust to the number of fish your present during cycle, the full amount seats in place when using one fish, or forty for cycling.
that's a firm rule of surface area mechanics, though nobody in reefing would agree. does anything I ever type align with a greater rule set I ask you heh
the exact reason it works that way is this: your rock has X amount of available surface area, which is finite. ten fish or one still fills up all gaps when a cycling chart, not an ammonia kit, says it will. once the surface area is used up, benthic bacteria have no more attachment points and the biofilms are fully set/locked into place.
using one fish does not leave some spaces open to bac at day 30, they're all full at day 30 and using ten fish can't add more bac, the surface area is used up.
its the cloud
the smell
the fish who must hover at the very top/even sideways if possible so a gill is as close to o2 as possible, since the gills are burned by literally any free ammonia that remains in the tenths. nh3 is utter devastation, exactly like kidney failure in dogs or cats, there is no time that free ammonia is present at unsafe levels as an 'irritant'
its lethal, in a day, when uncontrolled. that's why you can depend on a safe start, you have tons of surface area already passing the test. I estimate that set of rocks can carry forty fish, right now lol
though if you do that, crypto n brook...lol
that's how much nh3 it can control right now, though you've only brought in one fish.
*bacteria does not adjust to the number of fish your present during cycle, the full amount seats in place when using one fish, or forty for cycling.
that's a firm rule of surface area mechanics, though nobody in reefing would agree. does anything I ever type align with a greater rule set I ask you heh
the exact reason it works that way is this: your rock has X amount of available surface area, which is finite. ten fish or one still fills up all gaps when a cycling chart, not an ammonia kit, says it will. once the surface area is used up, benthic bacteria have no more attachment points and the biofilms are fully set/locked into place.
using one fish does not leave some spaces open to bac at day 30, they're all full at day 30 and using ten fish can't add more bac, the surface area is used up.
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