Re: Suthdown - tropical sand - ammonia/nitrites

I would not worry about it.

If you wanted to experiment, you could try heating it and see if you like it, but you would probably eventualy skip it.

If you heat it, nice and warm, you will increase denitrification, because the increased warmth will increase bacteria growth and resperation.

In the tropical environments, in warm water, the temperature will be cooler as you go deaper in the sand. It's like when you pull ground water up from a well in a warm area, the water will be cooler. Here in Central Florida, the well water is around 75 year round.

Down in deap ocean, the water is cold. I don't know of any studdies of temperatures taken deep in the sand under the ocean, other than hot vents.


Wayne Sallee
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Pszemol wrote on 1/30/2006 6:54 PM:
"RicSeyler" <ricseyler@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:isvDf.16891$3m4.9553@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Never heard anything Pro or Con about lower level of DSP being a different temp.
But you DO want that oxygen-free area at the bottom of the DSB.


Yes, oxygen-free is something different. I am talking about the temperature. 
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