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Originally Posted by blasterman789
I don't have a nitrate problem I'm trying to solve with a gadget. I'm trying to discuss ways of improving nitrate reduction in-tank where it should be, and/or speed up the development of nitrogen reducing bacteria without waiting months/years.
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Well there's nitrifying bacteria (oxygen loving) which converts ammonia/ammonium to nitrite & then to nitrate. Then there is de-nitrifying bacteria, which exist in an anoxic environment (very low oxygen) which reduce nitrate to nitrogen gas. Then there is bacteria that exist in anerobic environments (no oxygen) that convert nitrate back to nitrite & ammonia.
Then there is algae, as in scrubber or refugium, that remove ammonia/ammonium without converting it to nitrite/ nitrate.