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Re: (Joe Reiter asked about Seachem's Excel and Flourish)
- To: Aquatic Plants Digest <Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com>
- Subject: Re: (Joe Reiter asked about Seachem's Excel and Flourish)
- From: Wright Huntley <jwwiii at pacbell_net>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:54:16 -0700
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> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 07:53:32 -0700
> From: "Roger Gordon" <rgordon at tns_net>
> Subject: Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V5 #147
>
> Joe Reiter asked about Seachem's Excel and Flourish--
>
> I use Excel in my East African Rift Tank. With the high pH, you can't get
> the CO2 concentration high enough to be beneficial to the plants. So Excel
> is the only alternative.
>
Perhaps I am missing something here, but pH has no particular effect on
the solubility of CO2 in a normal tank. Right?
We measure KH and assume it is mostly carbonate/bicarbonate, which lets
us use the chart to guess the CO2 concentration by then measuring the pH.
CO2 should readily dissolve in a Rift-Lake tank, but the chart may just
get hard to use with any accuracy at such high KH. That is, the pH shift
for a given ppm of CO2 is much less, hence harder to get accurate.
Won't the plants still use that CO2 just as readily as if the pH was 6.5?
Wright
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