LI Yan, ZHENG Xinqing, YANG Xiaozhou, OU Dangyun, LIN Rongcheng, LIU Xinming. Effects of live rock on removal of dissolved inorganic nitrogen in coral aquaria[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2017, 36(12): 87-94. doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-1092-1
Citation: LI Yan, ZHENG Xinqing, YANG Xiaozhou, OU Dangyun, LIN Rongcheng, LIU Xinming. Effects of live rock on removal of dissolved inorganic nitrogen in coral aquaria[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2017, 36(12): 87-94. doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-1092-1

Effects of live rock on removal of dissolved inorganic nitrogen in coral aquaria

doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-1092-1
  • Received Date: 2016-09-12
  • Maintaining stable water quality is one of the key processes for recirculating coral aquaculture. Traditional aquarium systems which mainly utilized a nitrification of nitrifying bacteria attached to the surface of massive artificial filter material are difficult to maintain the oligotrophic conditions necessary for coral aquaculture. This study investigated the removal effects of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (ammonia and nitrate) by live rock (LR), a key component in the "Berlin system" coral aquarium. The expression levels of bacterial functional genes, AOA3, amoA and nosZ, were measured on the exterior and interior of LR. The nitrifying and denitrifying bacterial abundance on LR was quantified and the nitrogen nutrient regulatory effects of LR were evaluated. The results demonstrated that LR mainly removed ammonium (NH4+) from the water with a mean efficiency of 0.141 mg/(kg·h), while the removal of nitrate (NO3-) was not significant. Bacterial diversity analysis showed that ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) were the most common bacteria on LR, which accounted for 0.5%-1.4% of the total bacterial population, followed by denitrifying bacteria, which accounted for 0.2% of the total population, and the ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) were the least common type (<0.01%). The low abundance of denitrifying bacteria may be responsible for the poor nitrate (NO3-) removal of LR. Thus, other biological filtration methods are needed in coral aquaria to control nitrates generated from nitrification or biological metabolism.
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