rain87
Aquarium Advice Freak
Plants need two things to survive light and nutrients. They need a balance of both. If they have too much of one or the other it doesn't do any good. It's like if we eat a lot but don't exercise we get fat or if we exercise a lot but don't eat we pass out. Once you reach a certain level of lighting you need fertilizers and CO2 if you want your plants to thrive. Low light plants mean that they can do well in low light because they grow slow they don't need a lot of light or nutrients. When you put a low light plant in a high light environment then it is trying to photosynthesize faster. If it doesn't have the nutrients it needs it can die just as easily as if it didn't have enough light. This is my understanding but I am not an expert so hopefully someone with more experience can chime in.
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