charles matthews
New member
You are doing wonderful work, and I appreciate your efforts to bring marine planted tanks to a wider audience.
You didn't mention c02 supplementation in your article. I know there have been a number of threads, and some very suggestive anecdotes, regarding co2 in marine planted tanks. I wish you had addressed this in your article- it would be nice to have your sort of summary judgement as to where the "marine tank community" is in using co2 supplementation.
It has been stated that marine plants all-or almost all- freely utilize bicarbonate, and thus shouldn't need c02. However, I don't find this convincing; my large refugia max out at a pH of 8.6 or even higher by mid morning, and seem to stop there; I get markedly increased pearling with c02 infusion.
Could you please comment? Thanks again for your work; you are a very innovative aquarist!
Charles Matthews M.D.
You didn't mention c02 supplementation in your article. I know there have been a number of threads, and some very suggestive anecdotes, regarding co2 in marine planted tanks. I wish you had addressed this in your article- it would be nice to have your sort of summary judgement as to where the "marine tank community" is in using co2 supplementation.
It has been stated that marine plants all-or almost all- freely utilize bicarbonate, and thus shouldn't need c02. However, I don't find this convincing; my large refugia max out at a pH of 8.6 or even higher by mid morning, and seem to stop there; I get markedly increased pearling with c02 infusion.
Could you please comment? Thanks again for your work; you are a very innovative aquarist!
Charles Matthews M.D.