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So, this is probably more an academic exercise rather than an actual plan, and i'm mostly looking for why this is stupid/won't work/noone has done before:
A cyanobacteria reactor. The idea would be to have a reactor with a long if not permanent photoperiod, an airstone somewhere to provide extra dissolved nitrogen gas, and some way to extract the hopefully accumulating goop.
This was inspired by the observation that cyanobacteria often appears in low nitrate high phosphate situations, and the claim that cyanos can utilize atmospheric nitrogen instead of nitrate. The (mostly theoretical) goal would be to use this in a reef system that has those low nitrate and high phosphate parameters to create a perfect growth environment for the bacteria in the hopes that they outcompete cyanos in the display tank and can maybe even be used to export phosphate.
Granted, this is not my field at all and i have not taken a deep (or even shallow really) dive into literature on this, so theres probably very simple reason this won't work.
Now tell me why im a dangerous lunatic and need to be locked away;Wacky
A cyanobacteria reactor. The idea would be to have a reactor with a long if not permanent photoperiod, an airstone somewhere to provide extra dissolved nitrogen gas, and some way to extract the hopefully accumulating goop.
This was inspired by the observation that cyanobacteria often appears in low nitrate high phosphate situations, and the claim that cyanos can utilize atmospheric nitrogen instead of nitrate. The (mostly theoretical) goal would be to use this in a reef system that has those low nitrate and high phosphate parameters to create a perfect growth environment for the bacteria in the hopes that they outcompete cyanos in the display tank and can maybe even be used to export phosphate.
Granted, this is not my field at all and i have not taken a deep (or even shallow really) dive into literature on this, so theres probably very simple reason this won't work.
Now tell me why im a dangerous lunatic and need to be locked away;Wacky