Nitrospira
Genus of bacteria which reduces nitrIte to nitrAte in an aquarium.
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Ichthyological terms, not general ones.
nitrites
A salt or ester of nitrous acid. Produced in aquaria via metabolisation of ammonia by nitrifying bacteria of the genus Nitrosomonas, and toxic to fishes if present in sufficient concentrations, but in a mature system is further converted into less-harmful nitrates by other bacteria of the genus Nitrospira.
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