Re: [AGA Member] Red Pigment-K spectrum anecdotes

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

Okay.  so let me summarize:  Red plants are redder when the
light is strong or else when the light is not strong.  Am I
confused or are their two views here -- of course, I could
be confused in any event :-\

The R. Indica is reddest when it gets up closer to the
lights.  Is this what happens in other folks' tanks?  What
about E. ozelot?

Scott H.
--- MotomanBarton@aol.com wrote:
> Yeah, I'm not saying that the only thing that will grow
> in bright light are 
> red plants i'm just saying that most of the red plants
> can only grow in bright 
> light. Because if they are shodowed they will not be able
> to absorb enough 
> light in order to survive. Think of it as a bunch of dots
> Green dots abosrb light 
> red ones don't (in every plant their are red pigments and
> green pigments what 
> determins the colour of the plant is the amount of red to
> green pigment) so 
> if their are alot of red dots their will have to be alot
> of light in order for 
> the fewer amount of green dots to pull in enought light
> for the plant to 
> survive. 
> 
>             Bevan
> In a message dated 9/23/2003 8:19:20 AM Eastern Standard
> Time, 
> shieber@yahoo.com writes:
> But lots of plants live in clear water and even no water
> and have lots of green and little or no red.
> 
> Scott H.
> --- MotomanBarton@aol.com wrote:
> > The reason they only need less green pigment is because
> > they live in clear 
> > open water that lots of sunlight can come throw, thus
> > they can have less green 
> > pigment to survive.
> 
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