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The relation of CO2 and Marulioides Flower


I was surprise with the fantastic result from using CO2 injection on the flowering of Marulioides in the passed 3 months and I started googling for the relation of CO2 and marulioides. I can't find any obviously other than those of my own posting but interestingly I stumble upon the relation of Peat swamp and Carbon Dioxide! 

And to my surprise, peat swamp is the largest deposit of carbon on earth. They are the fixed deposit for Carbon Dioxide. When carbon is exposed to oxygen they becomes Carbon Dioxide (C + O2 = CO2). And when Carbon Dioxide is exposed to water some of them becomes Carbonic Acid (CO2 + H2O = H2CO3). 

The habitat of peat swamp Marulioides is acidic and rich carbon in the soil. And it also happened that peat swamp Marulioides are plentiful with flowers as compared to open water marulioides. I think I've just stumble on the key to flowering Maruliodes.


https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/peat-lands-and-greenhouse-gasses/

We now known the important substance that flowers marulioides but we still do not understand why Carbon Dioxide create flowers for Marulioides. How CO2 damaged the color changing abilities of the marulioides.

Another interesting scientific study on CO2 with animals are for the Cephalopods, they observed that they changes in pattern when exposed to high level of CO2. The squid as you know it behaves like the marulioides, they too changes colors at will.



https://www.fondriest.com/news/rising-atmospheric-co2-levels-affecting-cephalopod-behaviors.htm

It seems that CO2 does alters the Chromatophores behavior of animals and I think it is also doing the same here for the marulioides. At one stage long ago I did started to feed squid to my Marulioides because of the high Chromatophores contain in them but only to realize later that flowers of marulioides are the damage part.

So perhaps CO2 are responsible for damaging the chromatophores of the Maru and render them useless. When they are damaged they no longer function, they cant change color and turn into black and white forming the flower scale. Flowers as we know are damaged scale, if you take note of maru even when they turned black the flowers will still be there, its fixed or as I love putting it - Dead Pixel.

This is still very new and to bros who attempt to follow this new technique please be careful as too much CO2 can also kill your fish (CO2 poisoning). I've no idea of the quantity it requires to kill your fish and I've no intention to find that out.



This is the 5th day with CO2 injection and the fish white scale edge has been showing plentiful



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  1. AnonymousJanuary 20, 2020 at 12:13 AM

    hi, as far as i know co2 lowered water pH. As an aquascaper i used co2 to lower pH, and of course for plants.

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    1. MoorishJanuary 26, 2020 at 9:59 PM

      yes but the CO2 injection here is alarmingly high

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