pezenfuego
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Originally Posted by Rod Buehle
http:///forum/post/3031645
The sun or any lighting is not the cause of the algae. Nutrients (phosphate, nitrate) are the limiting factor. Not lighting.
Julian sprung/Charles Delbeek said it best in TRA vol 1.. Something like this
Car stereo..
if you leave the power button off, you can turn the volume knob as much as you like, but your still not going to hear anything. Turn on the power, and mess with that knob, and it will hopefully make your windows rattle..
Now, relate the power button to nutrients.. volume knob to light (sun or what ever) and the sound that you hear to algae..
Leave the power (nutrients) off, and you can turn th evolume (lights) up, and you wont hear (have algae).
Turn on the power (over feed, underskim, use filters IE; nutrients), and turn up the volume (add more light), and things start to rock (grow).
That's an excellent analogy.
http:///forum/post/3031645
The sun or any lighting is not the cause of the algae. Nutrients (phosphate, nitrate) are the limiting factor. Not lighting.
Julian sprung/Charles Delbeek said it best in TRA vol 1.. Something like this
Car stereo..
if you leave the power button off, you can turn the volume knob as much as you like, but your still not going to hear anything. Turn on the power, and mess with that knob, and it will hopefully make your windows rattle..
Now, relate the power button to nutrients.. volume knob to light (sun or what ever) and the sound that you hear to algae..
Leave the power (nutrients) off, and you can turn th evolume (lights) up, and you wont hear (have algae).
Turn on the power (over feed, underskim, use filters IE; nutrients), and turn up the volume (add more light), and things start to rock (grow).
That's an excellent analogy.
