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Nitrico Goop - Live Aquarium Nitrifying Bacteria Pouch (50 Litre)

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The main one is the pH of the water. The pH of your water should not be below 6.5 when introducing live Nitrico products. A low pH suppresses nitrifying bacteria.

Yes, it is no problem to use goop with Axolotl. However, there is often a misconception that Axolotl produce more waste in an aquarium than they actually do.

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Axolotl only produce waste from the food that they are fed. A small Axolotl that may only eat 3 grams of worm in 24 hours will not produce 4 ppm of ammonia in a 100 litre tank. If they did then it would be impossible to keep Axolotl in tubs (as is often done) as the amount of ammonia produced overnight would kill them (which it doesn't). The main aim of a cycled filter and aquarium is to efficiently break down the waste produced by the tank’s inhabitants, whether that be tropical fish, turtles or axolotl etc. Any inhabitant that will live in that tank will excrete waste 24/7 and any artificial ammonia source that may be used, should mimic this as closely as possible. Adding a big hit of ammonia in one go does not mimic this. If you add a 2ppm (or worse 4ppm) hit of ammonia, you immediately provide the Nitrosomonas bacteria with a huge amount of waste to break down. Nitrosomonas increase in number rapidly (generally doubling approximately every 24 hours) and so they immediately start to increase in number. This increase uses up valuable minerals in your water which is seen by the depletion of KH etc. and pH.

When your filter bacteria arrive, the pouch will contain trillions of live nitrifying nitrosomonas and nitrobacter bacteria. It is important that your bacteria are administered into the tank very soon after delivery and fish should be introduced at the same time as the bacteria or within 48 hours if possible.Nitrico Goop is a concentrated mature colony of nitrifying bacteria. Our bacterial culture is grown in a bio-secure facility and fed a synthetic replica of fish waste to ensure that no fish pathogens can be transferred. If you are using a plastic media such as K1, this is a very smooth media that is also, possibly, covered with a release agent left over from manufacturing. New, untreated, plastic media can take much longer to mature with bacteria than any natural media or foam. When it is mature, it can be a superb filter media but we advise using additional foam in the filter to initially house the goop bacteria while they colonise the plastic media. If you are able to pre-prepare the plastic media prior to adding the bacteria, this can help massively. Some advise the use of Potassium Permanganate to chemically strip the surface of the new media and also tumbling the media with an abrasive sand to etch the surface can help a lot as well.

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