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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: sci.aquaria,rec.aquaria,alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: A talk with the Coralife Plant Fertilizer people
Summary: additional comments
Keywords: plant fertilizers
Message-ID: <24882@gryphon.COM>
Date: 17 Jan 90 17:49:33 GMT
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <1990Jan17.054121.27143@agate.berkeley.edu> link@soup.ssl.berkeley.edu (Richard Link) writes:
>In article <24849@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>>I used to have blue-green bit now that I'm using RO water I get hair algae.
>
>OK. I give up. What's RO water?

Reverse osmosis. It's a highly selective filter that pretty much
de-ionizes water.

Looking at my notes, which I can barely read there are two points
I forgot to make: 1) When I asked why they don't just make 1 chemical
that you can add rather than having a fertilizer and an iron supliment
and a trace element solution. The answer is that, the chemicals, when
mixed, react and precipitate out.

Also, the two Dr's that discovered the new trace element solution
(modified fro Hoagland) are at University of Irvine and University
of Wisconsin, in case anybody tries to track them down (and I
hope somebody does)