Elagance Coral on RC

[srusso]

Well you can start by letting him tell you why a nutricline exits in the ocean. If he cannot explain this to you, he will not be able to understand anything further, including why his own previous scrubbers did not work well.

But still invite him over.

Can you give us the explanation? Sounds interesting

[kerry]

I think he is talking about when the plankton blooms in the sea, This is very general but its like the opposite of an el nino. The surface water area gets thin and concentrates the nutrients and the plankton blooms or grows at a rapid rate. With out this affect the sea's would most likely die. I would need to research it to get technical with an explanation in a scientific way. There are several different "clines" too, one for oxygen, pH, salinity ect.

[SantaMonica]

No that's not it but keep researching

[srusso]

No that's not it but keep researching

Will you please explain it then?

[SantaMonica]

Gonna wait for EC to show that he understands.

[greenmachine]

wow it's HOT in there!!

[Garf]

Same principal as osmosis ain't it, but nutrient based instead of density.

[SantaMonica]

No.

Let me know when EC explains that he understands a nutricline. Explaining it to him won't help anything; he has to learn it for himself. His lack of understanding of a nutricline is the basis for his misunderstanding of how scrubbers work.

[Floyd R Turbo]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2603260/

http://www.mbari.org/staff/peti/Pubs...oductivity.pdf

[Floyd R Turbo]

What am I supposed to do, go on there and say "Hey EC do you know what the role of the nutricline in the ocean is?" without knowing myself? I don't wish to put myself in a position to sound stupid or relay messages from here to there and I don't really care what he thinks, I would just like to know for myself.