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Originally Posted by Belgian Anthias
There is absolutely more than one reason to believe that most aquaria where carbon is added based on the nitrate level have a carrying capacity supported for more than 50% by these doses. . Google "mixotrophic ammonia reduction" or read the listed references on the bottom of this page http://www.baharini.eu/baharini/doku...chemie:biofilm |
I think Jonathan’s doubt is not going to be eased by telling him to go chase references on a Google search page. Science is not a legal proceeding where showing precedence helps win the case.
At this point in the discussion, the only thing established is that you believe that there is a relatively large risk from dosing carbon, specifically, when it is abruptly stopped. You have kindly provided information that supports your hypothesis. Continuing to answer doubts about your hypothesis with references that support your beliefs will not further the discussion.
While I still think your hypothesis is plausible, we still have no data of failed aquariums or even failed aquacultures because of abrupt changes to carbon dosing. We do not yet know how likely failure to be. 100% of the time? 10%? And if there are no reports of failures, where are the stoiciometric calculations demonstrating that an abrupt change in carbon dosing for a given amount of protein input will produce an ammonia spike of so many ppm over a certain period of time for a given carbon dosing regimen?
Can you fulfill these requests for data or can you perform the calculations?