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Brilliant for refugium copepods, effectively protects corals & fish from harmful nitrates by denitrifying your tank.
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100 grams of live sand
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This product is packed full of good bacteria for denitrifying your aquarium.
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This sand is from a existing sand bed
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The sand grains are approx 0.5 mm-1.mm in size.
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Great for cycling a new aquarium, just add to the top layer of your sand bed and it will start 'seeding' your tank system immediately.
Information on denitrifying, ammonia, nitrogen cycle, and the importance of this marine live sand it your aquarium:
Marine fish drink the water in their environment constantly and excrete small amounts of very concentrated urine constantly. Combine this concentrated urine with fecal pellets, multiply that by several fish and throw in a good measure of uneaten, decomposing food into the equation, and we get ammonia.
Small amounts of ammonia is deadly to fish and corals.
In order for marine fish and corals to survive and thrive in our enclosed aquarium environment, we need to develop and cultivate a healthy population of beneficial bacteria that will neutralize the ammonia. Breaking down ammonia is necessary for the nitrogen cycle to begin.
Once allowed to multiply, these bacteria will populate the hard substrate in the tank, including the live rock, sand bed, tank walls and even the surfaces of powerheads and pumps. If it’s underwater, these bacteria will colonize it.
The first group of nitrifying bacteria — the aerobic, oxygen-loving Nitrosomonas — break down the ammonia produced by fish waste into nitrite (No2). Nitrite, while not as lethal as ammonia, is still poisonous to aquatic life. The second group of oxygen-loving bacteria, Nitrobacter, consume the nitrite and convert it to nitrate (No3). Nitrate is far less harmful to fish and is easily tolerated unless it reaches very high concentrations of 200 ppm or more
And this is where denitrifying bacteria come to the rescue. This genera of anaerobic bacteria live within the pores of live rock and deep within the sand bed where oxygen is poor. Denitrifying bacteria reduce nitrate to harmless nitrogen gas which escapes from the aquarium water in the form of gas bubbles, in effect completing the nitrogen cycle.
Furthermore, this product contains the 'good bacteria' which effectively is a type of 'denitrifying bacteria'. This product will reduce nitrate to harmless nitrogen gas which escapes from your aquarium. It is a great way to reduce nitrates in your tank and to protect your fish and corals from the harmful element.
Please note that a heat pack is not required in order to get 'Live Sand' safely to its destination. In cold temperatures the bacteria on the sand will go 'dormant' and once placed in a new system at normal temperature it will awake from its dormant state. If the sand is packaged with a heat pack the heat will cause the sand to dry which will kill the bacteria
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