|| Not long fter I set up my my 4 ft tank I was replaceing the bulbs and
|| clumsily managed to break one with over the open tank.
|| A large porting fell into the water, which I later removed.
|| I thought nothing much of it and all the fish have been fine.
||
|| What has been a problem though has been a persitant algae bloom.
|| Constant water changes seem to have no effect.
||
|| Sure enough the phasphate level was 4ppm.
|| Just as I was about to start slagging the pro flora base for adding
|| nutrients, I stumbled upon a website about exploding things in
|| microwave ovens.
|| http://www.everist.org/special/mw_oven/#trials
||
|| The writer microwaves a mini fluro tube............"which strike the
|| phosphor (the white powder) "
||
|| Looks like I have my answer.
||
|| Phosphate sponge in place, I think I've finally got it all sorted!
||
|| K

If you've followed the group for any length of time, TomBarr has mentioned
several times that phospate is one element that is usually linked to algae
problems... it was in mine....

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