Macro algae and small dose of copper

bullitr · 06/16/2012, 11:50 PM

Can it co exist for a short period of time?

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Purple Rocks · 06/28/2012, 12:48 AM

what do u mean co exsist? Plants use copper but in very small minute amounts what ever is in your tap water is usually enough. Copper can become toxic to plants quickly.

Its used in oxygen reduction, nitrogen fixation, and helps with carbohydrate metabolism.
I believe at 1 ppm u will see adverse affects on annuals, but you will probably kill everything else buy that point.

I have never dosed copper in my tank.
I grow annuals best.

Purple Rocks · 06/28/2012, 06:46 PM

Actually I shouldn't say that i never dose copper. I dose copper regularly but i do it naturally with the use of Fancy Molasses this copper is heavily "chelated" kinda meaning that each copper atom is "attached" to another atom in the molasses, which makes it not so available so quickly. ( in simple terms) a chemist could explain that better.

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06/28/2012, 12:48 AM	#2
Purple Rocks Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Ottawa, Canada Posts: 81	what do u mean co exsist? Plants use copper but in very small minute amounts what ever is in your tap water is usually enough. Copper can become toxic to plants quickly. Its used in oxygen reduction, nitrogen fixation, and helps with carbohydrate metabolism. I believe at 1 ppm u will see adverse affects on annuals, but you will probably kill everything else buy that point. I have never dosed copper in my tank. I grow annuals best. __________________ 180g Oceanic Mixed Reef, 4" DSB,180lbs rock 20g Sump, 60lbs shell - 75g refugium, 5" DSB 2 x 400w Sunpulse 10k running on Lumatek ballasts. & Growing bud the size of your forearm since 1999.

06/28/2012, 06:46 PM	#3
Purple Rocks Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Ottawa, Canada Posts: 81	Actually I shouldn't say that i never dose copper. I dose copper regularly but i do it naturally with the use of Fancy Molasses this copper is heavily "chelated" kinda meaning that each copper atom is "attached" to another atom in the molasses, which makes it not so available so quickly. ( in simple terms) a chemist could explain that better. __________________ 180g Oceanic Mixed Reef, 4" DSB,180lbs rock 20g Sump, 60lbs shell - 75g refugium, 5" DSB 2 x 400w Sunpulse 10k running on Lumatek ballasts. & Growing bud the size of your forearm since 1999.