Why the effect of nitrifiers is more on substrates?.
Hello everyone: Today we will see about nitrifiers. In our culture pond, we give any nitrifiers? All are studied that Nitrosomonas and nitrobacter is involved in nitrification. But the truth in our pond is fully different... These Nitrosomonas and nitrobacters are chemolithotrophic bacterias. But, we uses mostly heterotrophic bacteria for effective nitrification in our pond. 1. The important thing is proliferation time. Nitrifiers takes more time upto several hours for proliferation in water. But heterotrophic bacteria needs minimal time. 2. These heterotrophic bacterias have the ability for forming spores. So, it remains active in the shrimp pond at several intervals. But, nitrifiers are not able to form spores. 3. The important thing in nitrifiers is, they can complete the nitrification at super fast only in the presence of excess of ammonia. So only the nitrifier...