Re: Light on an off

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• Subject: Re: Light on an off
• From: u7211aa at sunmail_lrz-muenchen.de (Michael Irlbeck)
• Date: Wed, 27 Dec 95 11:57:26 CET

>It's on a daily base:
> - mount a proper amount/sort of light
>then:
> - light on for 4 hours
> - light off for 2-4 hours (2 hrs. seems to be too little..)
> - light on for 6-8 hours
>Total:10-12 hours of light within a period of 12-16 hours.
>
>The more "basic" algae should not be able to adapt to this
>scheme; the aquatic plants should (It was tested!).
>
>Your plants should NOT react to this, or they might suffer
>too much (I think they did in the experiment you described)!
>
>Succes
>
>
>Gerard.

Has anybody tried this strategy against thread algae?

Michael

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|Michael Irlbeck        |  u7211aa at sunmail_lrz-muenchen.de|
|Dept. of Physiology    |                                 |
|University of Munich   |                  CIS:100277,343 |
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