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Thanks for the correction. I conflated the discussion of your huge Alk consumption with the ammonia dosing.
If you estimate the N input that your fish eat, and ~80% of that is released as ammonia - that's going to be an order of magnitude larger than the 0.1ppm ammonia dosed directly.
I'd guess that whatever processes eat that large pool of fish-ammonia, they'd just scale up to the extra 0.1ppm dosed in a short time.
edit: but if that's corals getting it, then giving them an extra 10% or whatever ammonia is probably still desirable.
Yeah, viewed this way it's hard to see how the effect could be large.At the low amount (.1 ppm of ammonia) I am dosing over a 24 hr period I still have a lot of questions about its availability to the zooxanthalle.
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I do have a lot of fish and may be they produce enough ammonia
If you estimate the N input that your fish eat, and ~80% of that is released as ammonia - that's going to be an order of magnitude larger than the 0.1ppm ammonia dosed directly.
I'd guess that whatever processes eat that large pool of fish-ammonia, they'd just scale up to the extra 0.1ppm dosed in a short time.
edit: but if that's corals getting it, then giving them an extra 10% or whatever ammonia is probably still desirable.
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