Post by timetraveler22 on Aug 20, 2016 14:49:05 GMT
As a studying marine biologist, and ecologist as my sources, I can give you a few pointers as to what should be variables in your CPA. I was looking at the dev forums(don't know if I'm allowed), but population shouldn't be controlled so simply. I didn't really understand the graphs that were given during tests, but I noticed that the promising ones didn't look 'quite right'. Remember, predator population goes up, the prey population goes down, which also causes the preds to fall too. Once the pred falls, then the prey rises, and you repeat the cycle. Also, there should be the nitrogen cycle in the mix. It takes a lot of time to type this cycle but, I'll try to simplify this:
All Eukaryotas create ammonia through waste. Ammonia is toxic to most organisms at any level. Except for nitrosomonas bacteria which eat ammonia and turn it into nitrite. Problem solved, right? No. Nitrite is still a toxin. Luckily Nitrobacter is a bacteria that eat nitrite, and they poop out Nitrate. Yay! Nitrate is safe at LOW LEVELS. Once a certain level is reached, it becomes a toxin. And now we have the algaes that use nitrate as fertilizer to grow.
Why is this important? In the aquarium world all fish are swimming in the nitrogen cycle. To make the aquarium safe for fish, you need to make sure that nitrosomonas is converting the ammonia as fast as being produced, and nitrobacter is converting the nitrite as fast as it's being produced. And if you have plants, then you can skip out of doing weekly water changes because they're converting nitrate into nitrogen. I'm too tired to link articles about it, but several show what your ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate levels should look like when you start cycling a tank in graph form.
I see a huge importance solely for the toxicity and population control for several algaes and organisms.
The last part of my tips is adding cyanobacterias. Cyano feeds on sunlight and nitrate like green algae, but produce C02 as a waste product instead. And in the ocean, a cyano bloom can come out of nowhere in huge quantities. In my parts we call them red tides. These red tides are devoid of oxygen killing everything, creating: ammonia. Which then puts the nitrogen cycle into overdrive which gives more fuel for the cyano.
Yet another idea, which also gives the addition of a new part for the cell editor, bioluminescent toxins, which can deter predators which could lead to an evolutionary advantage. Personal experience fishing at night, as the fish attacked the bait, their sudden movements caused these plankton to react and glow. Just food for thought.
And one last idea is a day-night cycle. Simple reason, because plants of all kinds produce C02 when there's no light.
I know this makes your job a lot harder but, I'm trying to think of realistic possibilities that I've experienced first hand either as a hobby or in the classroom.
All Eukaryotas create ammonia through waste. Ammonia is toxic to most organisms at any level. Except for nitrosomonas bacteria which eat ammonia and turn it into nitrite. Problem solved, right? No. Nitrite is still a toxin. Luckily Nitrobacter is a bacteria that eat nitrite, and they poop out Nitrate. Yay! Nitrate is safe at LOW LEVELS. Once a certain level is reached, it becomes a toxin. And now we have the algaes that use nitrate as fertilizer to grow.
Why is this important? In the aquarium world all fish are swimming in the nitrogen cycle. To make the aquarium safe for fish, you need to make sure that nitrosomonas is converting the ammonia as fast as being produced, and nitrobacter is converting the nitrite as fast as it's being produced. And if you have plants, then you can skip out of doing weekly water changes because they're converting nitrate into nitrogen. I'm too tired to link articles about it, but several show what your ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate levels should look like when you start cycling a tank in graph form.
I see a huge importance solely for the toxicity and population control for several algaes and organisms.
The last part of my tips is adding cyanobacterias. Cyano feeds on sunlight and nitrate like green algae, but produce C02 as a waste product instead. And in the ocean, a cyano bloom can come out of nowhere in huge quantities. In my parts we call them red tides. These red tides are devoid of oxygen killing everything, creating: ammonia. Which then puts the nitrogen cycle into overdrive which gives more fuel for the cyano.
Yet another idea, which also gives the addition of a new part for the cell editor, bioluminescent toxins, which can deter predators which could lead to an evolutionary advantage. Personal experience fishing at night, as the fish attacked the bait, their sudden movements caused these plankton to react and glow. Just food for thought.
And one last idea is a day-night cycle. Simple reason, because plants of all kinds produce C02 when there's no light.
I know this makes your job a lot harder but, I'm trying to think of realistic possibilities that I've experienced first hand either as a hobby or in the classroom.
