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Anyone dosing PO4?
After many googles on the subject, I decided to try and dose PO4. I had
little growth and poor nutrient uptake (read algae) in my 70 gal pressurised CO2 high light tank. Nitrate remained high all the time and no real pearling... As I said, after reading multiple NG on the dosing of PO4, I tried it today. Slowly at first etc. Immediate change in the pearling of my plants. Holy cow! Anyone have similar results? I plan on dosing twice a week. DJay |
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Anyone dosing PO4?
What is P04, and how do you dose it?
"Djay" wrote in message ... After many googles on the subject, I decided to try and dose PO4. I had little growth and poor nutrient uptake (read algae) in my 70 gal pressurised CO2 high light tank. Nitrate remained high all the time and no real pearling... As I said, after reading multiple NG on the dosing of PO4, I tried it today. Slowly at first etc. Immediate change in the pearling of my plants. Holy cow! Anyone have similar results? I plan on dosing twice a week. DJay |
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Anyone dosing PO4?
"Djay" wrote in message ...
After many googles on the subject, I decided to try and dose PO4. I had little growth and poor nutrient uptake (read algae) in my 70 gal pressurised CO2 high light tank. Nitrate remained high all the time and no real pearling... As I said, after reading multiple NG on the dosing of PO4, I tried it today. Slowly at first etc. Immediate change in the pearling of my plants. Holy cow! Anyone have similar results? I plan on dosing twice a week. DJay Yes,. It does work if there's enough CO2, NO3/K and traces. If not it won't help. Often you see a response in 40 mintues to 2 hours. General uptake in a well planted tank: about 0.2ppm a day ot more. Note: some can be "luxury uptake" rather than solely what the plant needs for growth and maintenance. Regards, Tom Barr |
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Anyone dosing PO4?
PO4 is phosphate. Usually it is shunned like the plague in a planted
aquarium tank, however under certain conditions of high light and CO2, the plants can use up all available PO4 in the water. I think it is called nutrient starvation. Without it, they cannot process the other essential nutrients like Nitrate and Potassium. These unprocessed nutrients build up and cause algae breakouts. Believe it or not, I dose drops from a Fleet Enema bottle... Contents are Phospates and salt. DJay, "Sam" wrote in : What is P04, and how do you dose it? "Djay" wrote in message ... After many googles on the subject, I decided to try and dose PO4. I had little growth and poor nutrient uptake (read algae) in my 70 gal pressurised CO2 high light tank. Nitrate remained high all the time and no real pearling... As I said, after reading multiple NG on the dosing of PO4, I tried it today. Slowly at first etc. Immediate change in the pearling of my plants. Holy cow! Anyone have similar results? I plan on dosing twice a week. DJay |
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