ChaetoGro helps establish water chemistry promoting long-term chaetomorpha health and growth, assisting the algae to efficiently control unwanted nutrients in the system, such as phosphate and nitrate. This multi-nutrient is phosphate and nitrate free, containing such as iron, cobalt, molybdenum, and more for elements to help chaetomorpha function.
Overview:
- For all marine aquariums & ULNS systems
- Shrimp & Invertebrate safe
- Phosphate & Nitrate free
- Provides 13 elements critical to long-term health, growth, and coloration of aquatic plants
- Well-suited to ULNS aquariums and designed for nutrient control of phosphates and nitrates by chaetomorpha uptake
- Formulated utilizing extensive research on aquatic algae nutrient requirements
Technical Background
Algae requires nutrition in order to survive and thrive; those nutrients needed allow algal biological functions and chemical reactions to properly process. Brightwell Aquatics ChaetoGro provides the proper substances in concentrations (found by researchers) to be necessary for long-term health. These elements, and some of the processes that they are involved in, are:
- Potassium - Protein synthesis, water and charge balance, enzyme activation
- Boron - Chlorophyll production, flowering, root growth, cell function
- Carbon - Required for all organic compounds
- Calcium - Cell wall stability and permeability, enzyme activation, cell response to stimuli
- Chlorine - Water and charge balance, photosynthesis
- Iron - Required for photosynthesis, component of enzymes utilized in redox reactions
- Magnesium - Component of chlorophyll, enzyme activation
- Manganese - Formation of amino acids, enzyme activation
- Molybdenum and Cobalt - Required for nitrate reduction
- Nickel - Enzyme activation, processing of nitrogenous material
- Sulfur - Component of proteins and the coenzymes that are involved with nutrient utilization and growth
- Zinc - Chlorophyll production, enzyme activation
Note: ChaetoGro does not contain phosphorus or nitrogen