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Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V5 #398
- To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
- Subject: Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V5 #398
- From: Jerry Baker <jerrybaker at attbi_com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 04:37:58 -0600
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David Kysar wrote:
> In other words for plants to clean a tank with 30ppm NO3 to 0 ppm NO3
> the plants would need to grow 1800 grams or about 4 POUNDS WET. If
> I'm wrong on these calculations it would be the estimates for % H2O
> in an aquatic plant and the % N in an aquatic plant but I shouldn't
> be off by much.
Sounds about right to me. If you have a tank with bright light, good
nutrients, and CO2, 4 lbs worth of plant growth will happen very
shortly. I can pull out a 5 gallon bucket full of plant material from my
80g after 2 weeks.