Pearling

[Plecostomos Fan]

Thanks Liz, can you tell me what is the effect of having 16 hours of tank lighting?

 

[lljdma06]

To put it in very basic terms, imagine you were made to eat and produce food for 16 hours straight. You'd exhaust yourself, right? Please somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the basic idea.

Liz

 

[StandbySetting]

I'd of thought so Llj, I guess another factor is the longer you leave it the more likely algae is to grow and reproduce?

 

[Plecostomos Fan]

Thaks, sometimes its easy to overlook these things, reducing tank lights to around 8 hours per day.

 

[aaronnorth]

To put it in very basic terms, imagine you were made to eat and produce food for 16 hours straight. You'd exhaust yourself, right? Please somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the basic idea.

Liz

There isn't a definite answer for this, but most would say it isn't exhaustion, but rather they are full! As soon as they have taken up enough CO2 the rate of photosynthesis drops, this is particularly noticeable in fine leaved stem plants such as myriophyllum and limnophila where they close there leaves.

This article is based on terrestial flowers but I'm sure some of the theories are transferable;
http/jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/54/389/1801.full

Thanks, Aaron

 

[lljdma06]

To put it in very basic terms, imagine you were made to eat and produce food for 16 hours straight. You'd exhaust yourself, right? Please somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the basic idea.

Liz

There isn't a definite answer for this, but most would say it isn't exhaustion, but rather they are full! As soon as they have taken up enough CO2 the rate of photosynthesis drops, this is particularly noticeable in fine leaved stem plants such as myriophyllum and limnophila where they close there leaves.

This article is based on terrestial flowers but I'm sure some of the theories are transferable;
http/jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/54/389/1801.full

Thanks, Aaron

No more light, please, I'm full!! LOLOL

 

[snowflake311]

Snowflake, I've been looking on the net to find a fert with iron and nitrogen,I have found this, APF Liquid Plant Nutrition which contains nitrogen,potassium,phosphorus(NPK)
You also say you use flourish,I take it you dont mean flourish excel because I thought this was used to reduce algae.
I would estimate my tank lights are on for about 16 hours per day.

seachem Flourish products are what I use. It's not an all in one fert but you can get a few differant kinds add them when needed.

 

[mini_matt]

Can you get pearling without co2 injection? What if you are just using liquid carbon like flourish excel?

 

[ian]

you won't get pearling from liquid carbon. You will get pearling either after a massive water change or with pressurised C02.