Is there ammonia/nitrite in cycling products?

patoloco

patoloco

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I was thinking about the "bottled bacteria" you can buy at a LFS to help doing you cycling faster and everything. I know some of you call it "snake oil" and some may use it. That's not the point on this thread.

What I want to know is how are bacteria kept alive in the bottle? Do they bottle it with ammonia and oxigen? What do the bacteria eat for the 1+ year of the bottle's shelf life? Is an older bottle full of nitrates?

If someone knows something, pls, share it.
 
If you test the bottled material, the nitrate is astronomic. I did not detect ammonia - there would be little point in adding ammonia or nitrite, as there would not be sufficient oxygen in the sealed bottle for the bacteria to use for respiration.

The whole concept is absurd. There is no dormant phase (spore or comparable) for the FW nitrification bacteria which actually establish in our FW tanks, so their survival under sealed bottle conditions at ambient temperatures would at best be measured in hours.
 
The whole concept is absurd. There is no dormant phase (spore or comparable) for the FW nitrification bacteria which actually establish in our FW tanks, so their survival under sealed bottle conditions at ambient temperatures would at best be measured in hours.
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Then why does Bio-Spira work..?
 
Bio-Spira is refrigerated and even at that has a limited life - just like ultra-pasturized milk or cream. It has live bacteria in a controlled solution and temp to hold them alive but not actively growing. No comparison to the shelf bottled products.
 
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