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![]() wrote in message oups.com... Sure, it's the nutrients. Not the light. Use more KNO3, KH2PO4(can induce flowing by adding more of this and backing off the KNO3), and traces. Thanks Tom, it must be the PO4. I don't change the water much in this tank and I don't add any Phosphate, due to the mild Algae problem. I had a Duckweed explosion (after being dormant for months) a while back, perhaps it's eating all the PO4. It does well if you thin it out as needed and make sure there are enough NO3 present. We raise it to grow biocontrol weevils, it's a noxious weed in the delta in CA. But because pond folks like it so much and businesses can make $ on it, they allow it to be legal. The delta is surrounded by what? Farmland, and the runoff = rich nutrients=horrid weed problems. The issue with the biocontrol: they don't do well in the colder winters here, but do well in Africa and other warmer areas, we cannot raise the weeviles on artifical media, so we have to grow the weed and then pick the little critters off the plants by hand. I am lucky, I don't have to deal with that:-) All we do, add some miracle grow to the tubs, change the water once a month. Regards, Tom Barr 3rd annual Plant Fest July 8-14th 2005! Get connected www.BarrReport.com Get the information |
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