NeilW
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As we know changes in CO2 concentration can induce algae.
I remember reading somewhere that a plants uptake of liquid carbon works in a different, more indirect way to CO2 gas injection so should be considered something completely different.
Therefore my question is if you stop dosing liquid carbon, assuming the system was balanced previously without carbon enrichment as a low-tech setup, will it result in algae in the same way as if you did a massive water change? Does liquid carbon become part of the CO2/nutrients/light environmental balance or could the system be fundamentally flawed and it was the algae killing power of the liquid carbon that was preventing an algae outbreak out and worked as a sort of 'crutch'?
I am currently dosing liquid carbon in my setup to encourage faster growth and doing roughly 20% water changes weekly to dilute the increase in organic waste. As a result of the above how would I go about scaling back down this liquid carbon input/water changes down to low-tech?
I remember reading somewhere that a plants uptake of liquid carbon works in a different, more indirect way to CO2 gas injection so should be considered something completely different.
Therefore my question is if you stop dosing liquid carbon, assuming the system was balanced previously without carbon enrichment as a low-tech setup, will it result in algae in the same way as if you did a massive water change? Does liquid carbon become part of the CO2/nutrients/light environmental balance or could the system be fundamentally flawed and it was the algae killing power of the liquid carbon that was preventing an algae outbreak out and worked as a sort of 'crutch'?
I am currently dosing liquid carbon in my setup to encourage faster growth and doing roughly 20% water changes weekly to dilute the increase in organic waste. As a result of the above how would I go about scaling back down this liquid carbon input/water changes down to low-tech?