Re:Fertilizer!

• To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
• Subject: Re:Fertilizer!
• From: krombhol at felix_TECLink.Net (Paul Krombholz)
• Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 12:40:26 -0500

>
Dave Gomberg wrote, Wed, Aug. 7:
>Subject: Fertilizer!
>
........................I added a very little
>25-10-10 fertilizer to the tank (knowing the phosphate risk).  The pH
>rose from 6.33 to 6.55 over the next 48 hours! .................

A likely cause of the higher pH could be an increased rate of
photosynthesis, caused by the addition of the nutrients.  Any one of the
nutrients could have been limiting growth before the addition of the
fertilizer mix.





Paul Krombholz                  Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS  39174
In steamy Mississippi.

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