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Old 02-07-2007, 11:49 AM   #42 (permalink)
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Re: Bio Balls, is this really why???

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Originally Posted by sasquatch View Post
so Im still looking for an answer,what state, chemical or compound is floating around in the watercolumn that bioballs convert that lr cannot, I mean what is this stuff doing while waiting its turn at the LR factory?. Steve
i think your talking about breaking up nitrates, right? there are many answers. dont forget there is more than one way to convert things. you have the sulfer cycles, carbon cycles, oxygen cycles, phosphorus cycles, iron cycles, mercury cycles ect....there is no simple answer, for example in iron cycles reactions take place spontaneously in oxic environments aswell as in anoxic environments. this is ture in the sulfer cycle aswell. way too much to go into. after understanding one cycle learn another than another and so, after awhile you start see the dynamics and how they interplay with eachother in the big picture. you know this plus that equals this unless this is happening then it equals that. there are many ways you can get the same answer. its a battle of who gets that O2 or N or whatever one group grows faster at times than others (and slower).
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