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Do plants use nitrate?
Hi Everyone,
I've just had a discussion with my local store owner after reading a post
from George Booth saying how Echinodorus may like high-ish nitrates (10-20
ppm). My store owner says plants don't use nitrates, they use ammonia -
is he correct?
I was thinking Geroge was right, particularly since my swordplants have
never done particularly well (look OK, just haven't grown nearly as big
as their parents). Mine were in a 125 gal tank with UGF and nitrates
0-4 ppm. I have now moved them to tanks without UGF & higher nitrates.
Their parents are in a 110 tank with laterite & UG heating (owned by the
store owner).
Also ... I was wondering if anubias might need nitrates also. My anubias
did poorly when I reduced nitrates in their 25 gal tank, but this kind of
coincided with anaerobic substrate & they just disintegrated :-(.
Any comments would be appreciated. Hopefully I'll be in the fishroom
tomorrow & maybe we can discuss this there.
Joanne.