Dose whatever you need to raise nitrates to 20-25 PPM.
I'm not sure what your talking about with ammoniac, but there are non-toxic versions of ammonia such as NH4 that won't harm fish yet is available to your bacteria and plants.
I'll google this and post a reply on what I find.
from wik
Sal ammoniac is a rare mineral composed of
ammonium chloride, NH4Cl. It forms colorless to white to yellow brown crystals in the
isometric-hexoctahedral class. It has very poor cleavage and a brittle to conchoidal fracture. It is quite soft, with a
Mohs hardness of 1.5 to 2, and has a low
specific gravity of 1.5. It is water-soluble.
It typically forms as encrustations formed by sublimation around
volcanic vents. It is found around volcanic
fumaroles,
guano deposits and burning
coal seams. Associated minerals include sodium
alum, native
sulfur and other fumarole minerals. Notable occurrences include
Tadzhikistan;
Mt. Vesuvius,
Italy; and
Parícutin, Michoacan,
Mexico.
Sal ammoniac is also the
archaic name for the chemical compound
ammonium chloride; from
Greek, άλς άμμωνιακός
hals ammoniakos, salt of Ammon, because of its early manufacture in Egypt.
It is commonly used as a flux in the soldering of stained-glass windows. In both jewelery-making and the refining of precious metals, potassium carbonate (cream of tartar) is added to gold and silver in a borax-coated crucible to purify iron or steel filings that may have contaminated the scrap. It is then air-cooled and remelted with a one-to-one mixture of powdered charcoal and sal ammoniac to yield a sturdy ingot of the respective metal or alloy in the case of sterling silver (0.75% copper) or karated gold. Anything other than 24-karat gold has silver and copper added. Usually the addition of silica, zinc, and deoxidants in very small amounts relative to the pennyweight (dwt.) of gold are processed into gold from as low as 8-karat to as high as 23.5-karat gold. This is added to prevent porosity or cracking while milling the ingot further into wire, sheet, or tubing. Without those additives an otherwise poor-quality ingot will result in open crucible melting with a hand torch or blowpipe and flame, as was done before electric melting furnaces were invented for use in the precious metals industry. These practices are still used by metalsmiths and jewelers today.
Sal ammoniac has also been used in the past in bakery products to give cookies a very crisp texture, although that application is rapidly dying due to the general disuse of it as an ingredient. However, in some areas of Europe, particularly
Scandinavia, it is still widely used in the production of salty licorice candy known as
Salmiak. The term sal ammoniac has largely fallen out of general use in the 20th century.
Since its NH4 (non-toxic ammonia) bonded to table salt, should be safe. My assumption is that the ferts just uses it in trace amounts.
