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re:Iron and algae
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To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
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Subject: re:Iron and algae
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From: "shaji (s.) bhaskar" <bhaskar at bnr_ca>
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Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 23:12:00 -0400
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>From: u7211aa at sunmail_lrz-muenchen.de
>Date: Sun, 14 May 95 00:13:33 +0000
>Subject: Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V1 #67
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>My phosphate levels were zero today and the iron was low. Do you
>think that adding more iron and trace elements will help the plants
>and 'hurt' the algae?
It should help the plants. I can't predict whether it will reduce
your algae problem. Actually, keeping the water deliberately
deficient in one or more nutrients is a possible way of reducing
algae. The nutrients that are deficient in the water are then
supplied to plants in the substrate - where they are not available to
algae. This is apparently not the Dupla strategy - they depend
largely on adding fertilizer to the water, and bringing it into the
substrate using heating cables.
-Shaji