Re: [GSAS-Member] Plants Wasting Away

["Shango Los" <Shango@shangolos.com>]

>Strangely enough it could be a deficiency of Nitrogen. If you aren't adding
Nitrogen,
>and you ARE adding CO2, and the algae is growing fast - it might be
grabbing up all the
>nitrogenous compounds before the plants do. Sometimes you can use a solid
fertilizer at
>the base of selected plants to test that hypothesis. Are there very many
fish in there?

There is a pretty heavy bioload in there, yes.  Not excessive, just a lot of
little fish.  Is there a cheap nitrogen test kit on the market so I don't
have to look/see after adding nitrogen?  I'd rather test for a deficiency
now rather than add something and hope for a difference..


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