Just another idea, there are many people here that have tons of experience in predicting what type of nutrients are low in level in a tank just by looking at the condition of certain plant.
Maybe we can start a sticky thread listing down some sensitive plants that we know from our own experience that consistently demonstrate certian traits when certain nutrients are low in level and what these traits are?
By the end of the day, some moderator can make a summary to list down for each type of nutrients, what are the possible plants that can act as indicators and how.
Many tanks especially those more "rojak" in aquascaping using many different types of plants can then consciously consider including these plants inside as additional measures to monitor the nutients level.
Will such information and method be viable and useful?
Chuck Gadd has done that but then observation is difficult as there can be multiple deficiencies going on there. The estimative index method is being invented to take care of such issues and place the main focus on CO2 (the main building block of plants.).
Regards,
Peter Gwee
Plant Physiology by Taiz and Zeiger
Searched for Chuck Gadd's article, it is informative but did not make reference to specific plants, maybe we could be more specific so that people know exactly which plants to buy. It could hopefully be viewed as another supplementary monitoring measure.
Ultimately I thought that it would be good that such interesting information of similar nature are collated together under one thread and can easily be referred to by all.
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