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Re: [APD] Excess nutrients



And if you were meticulous about cleaning up the algae as
you go. ;-)

sh

--- Bill D <billinet at comcast_net> wrote:

> Assuming that excess nutrients in a well planted,
> "balanced" aquarium do not
> cause algae, is there a tipping point after which the
> addition of more
> nutrients would cause an algae outbreak?
> 
> I am thinking of a healthy but lightly planted tank with
> low nutrient levels
> (say, 5 ppm of NO3 and .5 ppm of PO4) and no algae.  If
> the nutrients were
> suddenly increased to, say, 50 ppm and 5 ppm and
> maintained at that level,
> do you think an algae outbreak would occur?
> 
> My guess is yes, but maybe the plant biomass would expand
> on the presence of
> the additional nutrients and, eventually, the tank would
> get back into
> balance, if there was enough room for the additional
> plants.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
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