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Establishing nitrifying bacteria in super-intensive biofloc shrimp production
In biofloc production systems, ammonia-oxidizing bacteria process ammonia to nitrite, which provides substrate for nitrite-oxidizing bacteria that process nitrite to relatively non-toxic nitrate.