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Unread 03/17/2016, 02:58 PM   #3360
jweist
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Originally Posted by DNA View Post
Chetomorpha.....didn't have any impact.
I'm trying to come up with reasons why algae outcompetes dinos so well and why so much chaeto does nothing...
The first thing I'm thinking is that GHA prefers urea/ammonia much more than nitrate. I don't know the dinos uptake of ammonia compared to nitrate is but maybe the GHA can outcompete dinos because it gets the first grab.
The second thing is that the GHA might be putting chemicals in the water to hinder the growth of other species at the bottom of the food chain in order to keep themselves the dominant species in the system. These chemicals might work on the dinos too.
The last thing I can think of and I've said it before is that GHA grown on a scrubber screen maximizes the conditions for growing GHA. These conditions are not as favorable to the dinos and the algae wins.
I think it could be a combination of all these things and probably something else I can't think of right now too.
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no matter what methods are used dinos will find a way to show up soon after.
What makes you think this? I have no signs of dinos in my system.


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