What Does Aquirium Salt Do

[grimmy]

What Does Aquirium Salt Do?

for me, it recharges my resin pouckes in my filters.

what

 

[grimmy]

what is resin pouckes

 

[afishdude]

grimmy, if you know of this other stuff, perhaps you'd like to tell us? And show us the proof? Because there are only a few things that take care of ammonia in fishtanks, bacteria being the primary one. Live plants can take up ammonia as a food source. Other than that, you need to use a zeolite to adsorb the ammonia or do water changes. There isn't anything else.

grimmy could you answer this please? i would like to no the answer also.

 

[grimmy]

ammo - lock allways worked for me also live plants break down ammonia and allso gives off oxegen last but not least the the benafiecial bacteriahttp/www.bellaonline.com/articles/art37918.asp

 

[afishdude]

live plants dont break down ammonia, they do but they break down small traces of ammonis, they feed on co2 produced by your fish.

 

[grimmy]

well close enough right

 

[fry_lover]

live plants dont break down ammonia, they do but they break down small traces of ammonis, they feed on co2 produced by your fish.

Live Plants use ammonia and can help eliminate ammonia from a tank, obviously thats not why you buy plants, but they do use ammonia (i.e. take it out of the water)

EDIT: as already mentioned

 

[grimmy]

take what out

 

[afishdude]

Live Plants use ammonia and can help eliminate ammonia from a tank, obviously thats not why you buy plants, but they do use ammonia (i.e. take it out of the water)

if that is true then y do people (including me) inject co2 into their planted aquariums? y not just put ammonia in there when there is no fish. i meen i have a 10g planted with no fish and im spending $100+ on co2 equipment and bottles when i could be spending 95 cents on bottled ammonia according to you.

 

[rdd1952]

Also, ammo-lock does not break down ammonia. It only bind it to make it non-toxic. If you have 1ppm of ammonia in your tank, dose with ammo-lock and then test again, you will still see that you have 1ppm of ammonia but it is most likely ammonium which is the non-toxic form. But in any case, it's still there until the filter processes it or the plants use it for food.

if that is true then y do people (including me) inject co2 into their planted aquariums? y not just put ammonia in there when there is no fish.

Food is different from what is needed to "breathe". Plants use CO2 like we use oxygen. They take in CO2 and give off oxygen hile we do the exact opposite. Doing what you are saying by only giving the plants food would be the same as taking our air away and only feeding us. We wouldn't live very long if we had nothing to breathe.

 

[fry_lover]

Live Plants use ammonia and can help eliminate ammonia from a tank, obviously thats not why you buy plants, but they do use ammonia (i.e. take it out of the water)

if that is true then y do people (including me) inject co2 into their planted aquariums? y not just put ammonia in there when there is no fish. i meen i have a 10g planted with no fish and im spending $100+ on co2 equipment and bottles when i could be spending 95 cents on bottled ammonia according to you.

calm down, i never said you could be spending 95 cents on bottled ammonia?

i thought it was very common knowledge plants use ammonia? Its everywhere, why dont you try google? i am suprised you dont know this.

 

[grimmy]

ok thank

 

[JamieBailie]

Yeah, If you have enough plants in your tank you don't need to cycle it in most cases.

 

[grimmy]

Live Plants use ammonia and can help eliminate ammonia from a tank, obviously thats not why you buy plants, but they do use ammonia (i.e. take it out of the water)

if that is true then y do people (including me) inject co2 into their planted aquariums? y not just put ammonia in there when there is no fish. i meen i have a 10g planted with no fish and im spending $100+ on co2 equipment and bottles when i could be spending 95 cents on bottled ammonia according to you.

calm down, i never said you could be spending 95 cents on bottled ammonia?

i thought it was very common knowledge plants use ammonia? Its everywhere, why dont you try google? i am suprised you dont know this.

ya me to im surprised and im kinda new but no hard feelings

 

[afishdude]

calm down, i never said you could be spending 95 cents on bottled ammonia?

i thought it was very common knowledge plants use ammonia? Its everywhere, why dont you try google? i am suprised you dont know this.

bottled ammonia costs 95 cents where i am. according to you i dont need to be spending $100 on my aquarium i can just spend 95 cents.
plants dont soly feed on ammonia, they feed on carbon dioxide (co2) produced by fish and other living organisms, which is why you have to inject co2 into planted aquariums with no fish.

and grimmy he was talking to me.