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Post by marka on Mar 23, 2009 8:27:02 GMT -10
Marka I'm not saying the Neps wouldn't be absorbing the sulfur from coral, I'm saying the amount is insignificant. Look at the analysis of the coral I posted. The ratio of calcium to sulfur in the coral is about 220 to 1. Sulfur is used by plants in slightly less amounts than calcium. Only to a limited extent can plants pick and choose what nutrients that are available in the soil to absorb. If the vast majority of nutrients that coral is leaching into the media is calcium, than that is what the Nep would be forced to absorb. The answer is in your own reply... Nonsense A lot of nep food is broken down by infaunal organisms, not by the npes themselves, so what's the mechanism for it getting into the nep? Everything your saying about the Ca/S ratio in the soil applies to any ordinary plant, even though the ration of Ca/S is much closer in the plant than it is in the soil...
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