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Old 09-22-2013, 08:29 PM
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Jakegr I am not taking my information basing just on one book, you keep saying illumination should be 24/7, I don't understand on which time you get the dark time then! You don't explained the intensity of the illumination either...I understand all the reading, I just highlighter the point that you didn't mentioned where clear said "Effects of excessively low and high light suppy" Algal bloom, as I said read those pages plus Plankton Culture Manual and the last part of Aquaculture on Phytoplankton from wikipedia were it said "Light must be provided for the growth of phytoplankton. The colour temperature of illumination should be approximately 6,500 K, but values from 4,000 K to upwards of 20,000 K have been used successfully. ¡The duration of light exposure should be approximately 16 hours daily; this is the most efficient artificial day length!!"
I am sorry I put breath oxygene instead of consuming oxygene, I just see that know, I am going to fix it "Algae produce oxygen during the daylight hours and then consume it at night. During the day algae use energy from the sun to drive a chemical reaction between carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O) to produce sugar and oxygen (O2). The second respiration process in plants is called dark phase respiration. It occurs primarily during the night and, to a much lesser extent, during daylight hours. During the dark phase process the plant consumes sugar and oxygen to produce energy, carbon dioxide, and water. The critical point is that at night, aquatic plants shut down the oxygen- producing photosynthetic reaction and initiate a process where they consume oxygen. I feel 24/7 is unhealthy because we try to provided for our aquarium a live food that have to be proper culture to give the right nutrition. My goal is to describe the technical aspects of culturing phytoplankton, I am try to have a simple description that should be comprehensible to those with minimal experience in aquaculture, how you can see I am not just have a succes experience with one type of algae, but to 6 and I am not just try to make points but also to promote more species and the proper care. If you feel the information what I provided have been incorrect, then you are free to contact Marine Biologyst in Chile and Argentina to correct them, also you can contct Florida Aquar Farms, Inc to they stop sell the Plankton Culture Manual, you can also leave a disagreed feedback on wikipedia on phytoplakton Aquaculture information. Just analized how the phyto works in the ocean.
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