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I know we provide plants CO2 when we give them high light and fertiliser conditions....
How does nature do this? I'm sure not too many healthy water pockets are CO2 rich. So I would assume the more CO2/light a plant likes, the less fully aquatic it is. I.e. it would be getting light and gas exchange from the air, or through minimal water layers.
We know many of these plants do well, planted above water, but with some water cascading over or by it, I guess because of less filtering of light and better gas exchange along with not loosing valuable moisture.
Now I understand the concept of bubble wands and surface agitation in general releasing CO2 from the water body into the atmosphere. But what if you had a tank with a Single plant (I.e. you are not concerned with the average CO2 levels in the tank), but at the base of the plant you had a bubble wand or ring blowing bubbles through the plant 24/7.
This is just academic, but does anybody else feel there is a chance that such a plant would grow better than say if the bubble wand was just sitting in a corner off-gassing the whole tank?
I am just trying to get my head around a few loose ideas, but honestly don't have the energy to do the footwork.
How does nature do this? I'm sure not too many healthy water pockets are CO2 rich. So I would assume the more CO2/light a plant likes, the less fully aquatic it is. I.e. it would be getting light and gas exchange from the air, or through minimal water layers.
We know many of these plants do well, planted above water, but with some water cascading over or by it, I guess because of less filtering of light and better gas exchange along with not loosing valuable moisture.
Now I understand the concept of bubble wands and surface agitation in general releasing CO2 from the water body into the atmosphere. But what if you had a tank with a Single plant (I.e. you are not concerned with the average CO2 levels in the tank), but at the base of the plant you had a bubble wand or ring blowing bubbles through the plant 24/7.
This is just academic, but does anybody else feel there is a chance that such a plant would grow better than say if the bubble wand was just sitting in a corner off-gassing the whole tank?
I am just trying to get my head around a few loose ideas, but honestly don't have the energy to do the footwork.