Disgusting and Gross, but is it possible to pee in your tank?

Ammonia is .25 almost zero, Nitrite is still high, Nitrate increasing. I think another week. Yesterday I added 15ml of Ammonia and the next morning, no increase in Ammonia, so I guess the Ammonia eating Bacteria is working, I need the Nitrite Eaters to do their job!

I think another week and I can add some critters to eat the brown alage starting to grow on the rocks.

Thanks for checking in.
 
I used the "Miller Method" and wow that ammonia test could not have been more green. A week later I thought the nitrate tube was bleeding.
 
bohannbj said:
I used the "Miller Method" and wow that ammonia test could not have been more green. A week later I thought the nitrate tube was bleeding.
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Yup, I just took a nitrite measurement and it is still bleeding:)

I figure another week. I am using Prodibio Bio Digest and Special Blend. I guess they dont have as much Nitrosomona (spelling?) bacteria as they do the ammonia digesting kind.

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padova335i said:
interesting thread, i used 20 shrimp in my 650 system, a lot of people said not o.. i waited 2 months to cycle and now have 3 fish in there
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this dude would have to pee a lot in that 650g monster!



I want to add a vote for upperdecking your own overflow. Everything is better with a second story!
 
I couldn't imagine peeing in my tank to get the ammonia going LOL

Doesn't matter how many water changes you do, the thought would still gross me out.
 
Haha. This is a good thread. I dont know much about the ammonia side of it, but I do know there is bacteria in everyones urine. Probably not the bacteria that you want in your tank lol
 
I can't believe I just found this. This thread is too funny!!!

But to all those that would not want to stick their hand in the tank again after peeing in it, what do you think all you living critters are doing in there? You feed them so they...

I would hope that people wash their hands after messing with their tank with all the bacteria in there. And I'm not a germaphobe at all.
 
How is peeing in your tank any different than peeing in your wetsuit for an extra 20 minutes of dive time...?
 
atbathompson said:
Haha. This is a good thread. I dont know much about the ammonia side of it, but I do know there is bacteria in everyones urine. Probably not the bacteria that you want in your tank lol
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Realistically speaking, if you have bacteria in your urine you have a UTI and ought to get it checked out. Urine is normally pretty aseptic. :) Also, the environment in your urethra/bladder/kidney is vastly different than that found in the tank, so the extra bacteria would more than likely simply become a carbon source for the existing residents. There have been a few papers showing that established populations of bacteria make it very difficult for newcomers to colonize, but I'm too lazy to find them now. :bigeyes:

AGYDAL said:
How is peeing in your tank any different than peeing in your wetsuit for an extra 20 minutes of dive time...?
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It's really not, but some people are grossed out by normal bodily functions. Once that pee hits the tank, it's going to be diluted so many fold that you'd probably have trouble detecting it with our kits above the background, yet for the bacteria present it's like a nutrient buffet!
 
That's interesting because I've read that a big isse for freshwater source water contamination (aquifers, rivers, and lakes) is precisely because of pee.

The pee extracted from the human body contains medications that can be toxic to the environment, and if not to fish, to other people that are toxic to people.

If you combine all the meds people take for, specifically cholesterol controlling meds were named as highest on the list making it into potentially drinking water supplies.

Just thinking on that, if one is on any medications, couldn't those medications make it into the aquarium through Pee? Obviously, at such trace levels it probably wouldn't matter, but, if it's affecting water supplies, there has to be some concentration of the meds?

I don't know how lipitor would affect corals and fish...
 
you know before they had cycle and other bacteria additives that how they use to start tanks. i use to work for this guy at a pet shop and he has been doing this since the early 60s. he told me that people use to pee in there new tanks to help it cycle.
 
Those sorts of chemicals (hormones and the like) from medications don't just come from peeing straight into a waterway, they come from flushing the toilet as well. It's a real emerging issue for wastewater treatment.

What ecologists are seeing is something like a frog (which spends its entire life immersed or near water) constantly absorbing endocrine disruptors (read: hormones) and experiencing altered metabolic/developmental function. Very interesting stuff.
 
If you had a few cocktails and then did the deed in the tank, could that be vodka dosing?? (Needed a thread like this!!!):beer:
 
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