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Old 09-22-2005, 08:45 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by shalu
Tom, apart from "pearling", have you compared actual plant growth in terms of inches/week?

In my non-CO2 tanks, I have been supplying AIR into the HOB filter via an air pump. The filter spits out a mist of tiny air bubble(a small percent of that is CO2, of course) in the output flow. I would see a lot of "pearling" on my plants, and I never thought it could be real pearling and assumed that those were tiny air bubbles collected under the leaves and formed bigger bubbles.
You are increasing oxygen artificially by injecting air into the HOB...thus you reach O2 saturation more easily, so the plants pearl almost effortlessly.
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