Caulerpa as a filter system.

[adtravels]

The only time I have ahd it go sexual is under prolomged high temperatures i.e above 29-30 degrees celcius.

 

[tmz]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11226606#post11226606 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by adtravels
The only time I have ahd it go sexual is under prolomged high temperatures i.e above 29-30 degrees celcius.

That has not been my experience. It did it repeatedly without rhyme or reason.

 

[Wryknow]

Going sexual = more food for my corals. Anything that makes it into the main tank gets decimated by tangs/snails/conch/crabs so fast I've never even seen anything take hold. Like so much of this hobby though I suppose it's about finding the right balance for your system.

 

[ouuduy]

killagoby - does your controlled environment experiment work pretty well ?

 

[killagoby]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11255185#post11255185 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ouuduy
killagoby - does your controlled environment experiment work pretty well ?

You tell me...

 

[coralnut99]

When I questioned whether the person who claimed Caulerpa leaks nutrients back into the system, I wasn't questioning Elegance Coral directly. I was merely asking if the post/s he read through on the issue had any references to real study on the issue that would prove the theory correct. From my non-scientific way of thinking, this just doesn't make sense. That a thriving plant would simply put nutrients it has absorbed as part of the photosynthetic process, back into the water column is difficult to accept. I've seen that line of thinking offered in other threads as well, and I was just wondering if the threads Elegance Coral read through went into any real detail.

 

[greenbean36191]

A. C. Tyler, K. J. McGlathery and I. C. Anderson. 2001. Macroalgae Mediation of Dissolved Organic Nitrogen Fluxes in a Temperate Coastal Lagoon. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 53: 155-168.

Basically as I understand it, the algae takes up N for use making things like proteins, but it also needs N for intermediate steps in converting the sugars from photosynthesis into other usable products. After those steps are over, since the N isn't actually consumed in the process, the algae has more N than it needs for actually building things like protein and the extra just gets released back into the water.

 

[coralnut99]

Wow! That's mighty interesting. Totally contrary to my rudimentary understanding of it. I wonder if the same holds true for chaetomorpha?

 

[greenbean36191]

It's true for essentially all algae that have been tested, SW or FW.

 

[tmz]

I knew it takes up nitogen based nutrients such as ammonia,nitrite and nitrate, It seems logical it releases extra nitrogen which would then it seems equilibriate with the air.Perhaps more beneficial is the uptake of CO2 which is used together with water and light to create sugar while releasing oxygen.It also releases excess CO2 at night just like the other photosynthetic organisms.