Your View On Easy Life Easycarbo ?

[SO19Firearms]

You can correct me then.

I couldn't put a figure on it - I've always thought of it as similar, but not as good - because the plant has to use a bit of extra energy to convert the Carbon to CO2.
But to say it's such a large margin less effective seems counter intuitive when you take the following aquascape as an example - In this case when the artist stopped using TNC Carbon in addition to the CO2 he observed a decrease in growth rate and a rise in algae. While any conclusions would be anecdotal I'd be more inclined to think much less of an observation would be made if it were 10 - 20 times less effective....
 
[YouTube]https/www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEn1xJpX7Fo[/YouTube]
 
 
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[snazy]

The 20 figure is probably exaggarated but 10-ish times is about right. It's the way plants use liquid carbon, it takes them way longer to utilize it, and it lasts way less than 24 hrs,  but is also as toxic so you can't dose as much as you probably should at one go.
The rise in algae once the liquid carbon was stopped could be because liquid carbon is an algecide, so it kills algae. The problem could have always been there in the above example.
 I know liquid carbon is used in conjunction with injected CO2 because they've got different structure and although one has injected CO2, it doesn't mean you can crank it up to what the plants need without suffocating the fish, so people use liquid carbon as a supplement as it's easier on the fish that way, rather than having very high levels of only one form of carbon. Once you decrease any source of carbon, the plants will suffer and algae can form, doesn't matter which one.

 

[coolie]

I'm not a big fan of liquid carbon. I also had string algae. My plants were actually not growing any better qith it what-so-ever. Sorry!