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Re: Flourish Excel
- To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
- Subject: Re: Flourish Excel
- From: Greg Morin <greg at seachem_com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 09:35:32 -0400
- In-Reply-To: <200004060748.DAA04611 at actwin_com>
- References: <200004060748.DAA04611 at actwin_com>
>
>Hmmm. I think I'll just call it "pcga".
>
>A few months back I was wondering if a nutrient deficient plant might leak
>some of it's photosynthetic intermediates and if algae might then be able
>to use the photosynthetic intermediate as a medium for growth. I posed
>that question to Jeffrey Dahm, a biology professor at the University of
>New Mexico. His answer was (among other things) that bacteria would be
>likely to outcompete algae for a free metabolite.
>
>My guess is that both plants and algae can use the pcga - that's no
>different from CO2, as both plants and algae can use that, too - but that
>both the plants and algae may get some pretty stiff competition from
>bacteria. Just how much competition probably will depend a lot on the
>amount and kind of filtration used.
>
>To the extent that the pcga is used by bacteria it will probably also pose
>an oxygen burden on the tank.
>
>Any more comments, Greg?
1) It's use by algae and bacteria should not be a concern.
2) It is very important that the user heed the rather bold warning on
the label to _not overdose_ the product (yes there is a safety margin
built in).
I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out why
statement 2 explains statement 1. ;-)
-Greg Morin
Gregory Morin, Ph.D. ~~~~~~~Research Director~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Seachem Laboratories, Inc. www.seachem.com 888-SEACHEM
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