Toxins such as Ammonia,Nitrite,Nitrate eaporate with water?

[Jgray152]

Just a random question I thought of while looking at my tank.

I figured its a possibility, just not to sure.

 

[nubz]

no such luck! i think

 

[Ophiuchi]

yep those guys cant turn into gas at low temps, chlorine can though, its a gas at room temp
i think ammonia's boiling point is somthing like negative ten... but in the household you dont get pure ammonia its NH3 diluted with water instead of NH2(real scary death to all who encounter it ammonia). NH3 will boil at 97 farenheight, so it should evaporate twice as fast as water.

in regards to your fish though twice as fast isnt fast enough :/

 

[ewurm]

Ammonia and nitrite should be handled by your biological filter. Nitrate can only be reduced by water changes unless you have photosynthesizing plants.

 

[Jgray152]

Ammonia and nitrite should be handled by your biological filter. Nitrate can only be reduced by water changes unless you have photosynthesizing plants.

I know that.

I mainly wondered about nitrate since I ave a good amount of it but than I wondered about the rest of the toxins.

Thanks guys.

 

[brianhellno]

This may or may not help you but from what I understand if you use Prime then it will reduce Nitrates. Oddly they have zero scientific anything to back this claim up but here's a link to their website where they have this information.

http://www.seachem.com/support/FAQs/Prime.html

 

[ewurm]

This may or may not help you but from what I understand if you use Prime then it will reduce Nitrates. Oddly they have zero scientific anything to back this claim up but here's a link to their website where they have this information.

http://www.seachem.com/support/FAQs/Prime.html

Prime will not decrease nitrates.

 

[brianhellno]

Then why do they claim it does on their site?

 

[CHOMPERS]

Then why do they claim it does on their site?

Actually they don't. From thier site:

Q: How does Prime make a difference in reducing Nitrates?
A: The detoxification of nitrite and nitrate by Prime (when used at elevated levels) is not well understood from a mechanistic standpoint.

Detoxification is the chemical binding in a nontoxic form. It is still in the water.

What follows in that answer is spectulation and observations of laypersons, not chemists or scientists. SeaChem makes the claim of "detoxification" but not removal. They leave that to their users. So far, no one has determined if Prime causes N2 offgassing or if it is just bound in a form that doesn't show up on a home test kit.

My hunch is that the Stochiometry doesn't point in the direction of removal, otherwise they would have said so.

 

[brianhellno]

Ahhhh so when they say it reduces nitrates they basically just mean Prime makes it inert? Also they seem to say the only reason they even know that it reduces nitrates is that customers said it does and it kind of looks like they just went with it. Well that was my suggestion for trying to evaporate nitrates but it doesn't really look like it would work.