Natural balance, natural stability

 

Whether you're maintaining a 50-gallon aquarium, a 500-gallon water garden or a 50,000-gallon shrimp farm, you face the same basic challenges—eliminating detritus, maintaining proper nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations, thwarting harmful algal blooms, providing excellent animal nutrition, preventing infectious disease, etc.

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There are essentially two very different approaches that you may take when approaching these challenges: The first is intensive, heavily relying upon filtration equipment, water conditioners, dietary supplements, sterilizers, and so on. The second is biological, relying primarily upon natural ecological processes. "Natural" systems are not only cost effective, but they also are comparatively simpler to operate over the long term.

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While there are numerous types of microbes that you could utilize in a naturalistic system, none are as versatile as purple non-sulfur bacteria (PNSB). PNSB are capable of living in freshwater or saltwater, with or without oxygen, in light or in total darkness. Depending upon environmental conditions, they may carry out heterotrophy, denitrification, nitrogen fixation, carbon fixation, polyphosphate metabolism and photosynthesis as well as synthesize carotenoids, antibiotics and phytohormones.

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On account of their corrective environmental engineering, these primordial microorganisms serve as Nature's 're-set' button. And, increasingly, professional aquaculturists and horticulturists are recognizing their potential for promoting a balanced and stable captive ecosystem. In the simplest of terms, PNSB help you establish the healthiest aquatic habitat for the least amount of time, money and worries!