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Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V5 #81
- To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
- Subject: Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V5 #81
- From: Greg Morin <greg at seachem_com>
- Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 14:58:37 -0400
- In-reply-to: <200205090748.g497m2Q10224 at acme_actwin.com>
- References: <200205090748.g497m2Q10224 at acme_actwin.com>
>Thanks for responding. So basiclly what your saying is if I can trust my test
>kit then whatever amount of iron that is being used up is going to the
>plants/algae?
For the most part yes, but there will be a limited amount of
oxidation/precipiation occuring. The extent to which that occurs will
vary from tank to tank depending on a variety of factors (pH, redox,
organic content, oxygen content, etc). However even iron that is
precipitated will fall to the substrate where eventually it will be
used by the plants and not by algae.
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Gregory Morin, Ph.D. ~~~~~~~Research Director~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Seachem Laboratories, Inc. www.seachem.com 888-SEACHEM
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