Urea / Amonia Find

[Kirk Ellern]

When I was cycling my system I had a devil of a time trying to find Amonia.  I eventually got the system cycled but there was a lot of trial/error/hassle.  In the process I think I visited 10 hardware stores and looked at the ingredients of (guessing) four zillion bottles of cleaning fluid...

 

Yesterday, I was digging around in the basement and stumbled upon a bunch of Tie Dye stuff that I had laying around and, there it was, a big bag of Urea.  In tie dye you use this stuff to prep cotton before you dye the stuff.  Urea turns into Amonia.  So, not only did I have Urea/Amonia sitting right here in my basement BUT all I'd want if I went to a CRAFT STORE where they sell Tie Dye stuff (and there's one less than a mile from my house).

 

Or... I suppose... you can buy it on line at a place like this: http://www.dharmatrading.com/urea.html

 

Anyway, I thought I'd share a hot tip.