Heavily planted??????

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• Subject: Heavily planted??????
• From: "CORBEIL, SCOTT" <corbels at macmail_mcgawpark.baxter.com>
• Date: 11 Dec 1996 07:33:44 -0600

I would like to throw a somewhat philosophic question out to the group.  I have, over the last year or so, heard many references to having a heavily planted tank.  Mostly, these references refered to the fact that with a heavily planted tank you can eliminate algae through competitive inhibition of phospates.  I wondered what exactly the phrase "heavily planted" means.  Does this condition exist when you can no longer see the top of the substrate?  Is this a condition in which you have wall to wall plants?  I have a 150g planted tank with persistent algae issues, though improving slowly, and wondered just how many plants are neccessary to reach this illusive state of shangrala.

Scott Corbeil

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