Path: utzoo!hoptoad!uunet!peregrine!ccicpg!leo!harald
From: harald@leo.UUCP ( Harald Milne)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Fresh water plants (and marine too!)
Message-ID: <3037@leo.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 88 10:06:08 GMT
References: <411@bacchus.DEC.COM> <5316@ihlpg.ATT.COM>
Organization: CCI CPD (Advanced Development), Irvine CA
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In article <5316@ihlpg.ATT.COM>, dalka@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Ken Dalka) writes:
> I've had problems with my caulerpa dying but I think its because it
> eventually gets engulfed by stray algae.

	Off hand, I would say a lack of light. It really does make a difference.

> (That ugly green stuff that
> you have to scrap off the glass every couple of weeks.) Anybody know
> how to control this stuff?

	Caulerpa or algea? It is the same stuff, just that caulerpa is a higher
more evolved form of algea, called macro-algea. A higher form of algea, but
not really a plant in the true sense.

	Reduce nitrate levels to zero. You can't get rid of algea, but you can
slow the growth at the food source. If you have no light, you can't have
algea at all. Or caulerpa. Kinda a catch-22.

> 					Ken Dalka (Bell Labs)
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