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Old 07-02-2009, 12:56 AM   #31
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Default Re: How To Keep Ferns?

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Supercoley1 - that was a very good explanation of why plants pearl. In the past I have often wondered why my tanks sometimes pearl and other times don't no matter how much CO2 I put in the tank and how healthy the plants are but now it makes much more sense. Its not too often really good explanations like this show up on the forum, keep it up!

Its too bad we don't have reputation points like we used to. If we did you'd have my vote
Don't make the compliments too frequent. You will ruin my reputation for opening up hornet's nests and always arguing against the 'well known long understood' practices in the hobby

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Old 07-02-2009, 01:27 AM   #32
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lol, a lot of "Long understood" practices aren't well supported with evidence. Power to you
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Old 07-04-2009, 07:58 PM   #33
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I saw a bad sign in my medium tech tank. I found hair algae on the upper section plants that grew close to the light.

I have decided to reduce the light to 8 hours again. My fear towards hair algae is worse than dead plants or green spot algae because they're the main destroyers of my tanks in the past. So, I am not taking any risk. I'll depend on Seachem Phosphorus to fight green spot algae and rescue the ferns.
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