Study: Nitrates and other parameters in Amazon waters

[J.Lake]

cool info, Id love to see a more recent study! Im sure we have changed the chemistry of the water a lil since than.

 

[aclockworkorange]

Sounds like a bio-secure facility, but that shouldn't have any effect on pH.

Don't really know, you'd have to go there and test it yourself I suppose.

Getting a bit off topic here, I just mentioned Singapore shipments would occasionally come in at a low ph. It was mainly the guppies.

 

[Spiritofthesoul]

...really?

I don't think I deserve that sort of sarcarm but yes, really.
I would like to know where the bulk of nitrates go in nature.

I know plants and anaerobic denitrifiers play a part.
But surely there are more at work which helps remove nitrates in the wild.

 

[vaipulu]

I demand a more recent study lol, good suff

 

[aclockworkorange]

I don't think I deserve that sort of sarcarm but yes, really.
I would like to know where the bulk of nitrates go in nature.

I know plants and anaerobic denitrifiers play a part.
But surely there are more at work which helps remove nitrates in the wild.

"The solution to pollution is dilution." There is a constant source of freshwater in the river systems in question. Also, the "stocking levels" in those habitats are laughably low compared to most fish tanks.

 

[ceeej31]

In regards to the post by ceeej31, how does the nitrogen cycle continue at such a low PH? I thought it shut down when the PH drops below 6.

I didn't know that, but I keep my personal tank at 5.8 with no ill effects cycle wise.

 

[Younglin]

I don't think I deserve that sort of sarcarm but yes, really.
I would like to know where the bulk of nitrates go in nature.

I know plants and anaerobic denitrifiers play a part.
But surely there are more at work which helps remove nitrates in the wild.

LMAO. With the amount of rain and plants I don't see how you don't understand.

 

[Spiritofthesoul]

What about places like a lake or a closed off water area?
like a flooded quarry, where little or no plant is present.

 

[aclockworkorange]

What about places like a lake or a closed off water area?
like a flooded quarry, where little or no plant is present.

Be interesting to see some parameters on closed bodies of water, especially in the dry season. Lakes do have sources of water flowing in to them usually, but it's not like a river. However, there's a lot more water too.

 

[Bderick67]

LoL like to see the parameters of that mud hole that the electric eels were in the other night on River Monsters.