Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 08:59:18 +0100
From: "Daniel Larsson" <defdac at hotmail_com>
Subject: [APD] BGA/Cyanobacteria
To: <aquatic-plants at actwin_com>
The single most effecive sellingpoint, to me, for using KNO3
against Cyanobacteria/BGA is "heterocysts":
http://www.answers.com/topic/heterocyst
These specialized cells extract nitrogen ...
*drum roll*
... from the air.
If you can't get rid of Cyanobacteria/BGA, you will have nil
growth on plants and probably on other algae too.
Fishfood/fishpoop will not get you far if you have nitrogen
starving plants, as most of you with persistent Cyanobacteria
have already seen.
KNO3 will.
// Daniel.