I'm not a science expert but from what i've read and been told there is a difference between something like calcium nitrate and urea as a nitrogen source. The calcium nitrate needs to be converted because it's inorganic? The urea is already organic so it's uptake can be more direct as well, aside from the microbes role in using it. There isn't much information on it that I can find, so maybe my question doesn't make sense.
Any thread i've found on it has had people supposedly start to try it then just go radio silence. I've found nobody follow up regarding it. Makes me wonder if people hiding something about it... Could be possible.
Are you able to test and see that it’s raising nitrates or no?
So, I’ve been dosing 0.1 ppm ammonia twice a day for a little while. I did not alter my nitrate dosing at the onset of adding ammonia. The current dose of 0.1 ppm ammonia x2 per day is raising my nitrate by 0.7 ppm per day, on average. I’m now at the point where I’ll be adjusting my nitrate dosing down roughly 0.7 ppm per day, to keep my level constant. After a week I’ll bump up the ammonia, and lower the nitrate dosing in equal proportion. My Alk demand has decreased slightly since dosing ammonia, pretty much inverse to the increase in nitrate (as nitrate was increasing by 0.7 ppm per day, alkalinity was increasing by close to 0.7 dkh per day) and I’ve dialed down my calcium reactor to maintain a consistent level. I’m not a great guineas pig here as my vision is where it’s at. The only thing of note so far, as pointed out by a visitor, is that two small tufts of gha have appeared. I’ll pull those out when they’re big enough for me to remove by feel. This may be unrelated as I lost my two tuxedo urchins a month or two ago (I’m thinking age related).You could stick to your normal dosing and try manually dosing 0.1 ppm ammonia once in the AM and once in the PM and see if that alone does anything detectable. Little risk to that, IMO.
