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Phosphate
Here's a puzzle. In the morning my tank phosphates are around 0.60 mg/l.
In the evening they shoot up to 2.20 mg/l. I feed once a day and very little. I even have Rowaphos in my canister filter. The tank is planted. I can only presume that the algae eaters excrete pure phosphate from the algae they eat which then gets adsorbed by Rowaphos overnight. Nikki |
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Try your cheap test kit.
Your fish food and fish could not add that much PO4 if they wanted to. Why do you have Rowphos in your filter? It's possible it's expended and leeched it out back into the tank. That will not have any bearing on algae nor is a solution to any algae problem with a planted tank. Do you realize plants remove PO4 very rapidly? I dose 3ppm of PO4 per week to my tanks. I have no algae. I've dose PO4 for over a decade, no algae. I'd reconsider your entire approach to algae. Focus on plant growth, not algae. Healthy plants = no algae. So give the plants what they need. Regards, Tom Barr |
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There is no conjecture nor opinion from nice aqauscapes and nice
healthy growing plants. I have both. Careful whom you take advice from and listen to, a universal truth is that healthy plant growth = no algae growth/issues. So focus on the plant growth. More CO2, more nutrients Algae do better at lower nutrients than plants, not higher. Algae are also in a different niche than pklants due to their much smaller size and requirements. Regards, Tom Barr |
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There is no conjecture nor opinion from nice aqauscapes and nice
healthy growing plants. I have both. Careful whom you take advice from and listen to, a universal truth is that healthy plant growth = no algae growth/issues. So focus on the plant growth. More CO2, more nutrients Algae do better at lower nutrients than plants, not higher. Algae are also in a different niche than plants due to their much smaller size and requirements. Regards, Tom Barr |
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There is no conjecture nor opinion from nice aqauscapes and nice
healthy growing plants. I have both. Careful whom you take advice from and listen to, a universal truth is that healthy plant growth = no algae growth/issues. So focus on the plant growth. More CO2, more nutrients Algae do better at lower nutrients than plants, not higher. Algae are also in a different niche than plants due to their much smaller size and requirements. Regards, Tom Barr |
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There is no conjecture nor opinion from nice aqauscapes and nice
healthy growing plants. I have both. Careful whom you take advice from and listen to, a universal truth is that healthy plant growth = no algae growth/issues. So focus on the plant growth. More CO2, more nutrients Algae do better at lower nutrients than plants, not higher. Algae are also in a different niche than plants due to their much smaller size and requirements. Regards, Tom Barr |
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There is no conjecture nor opinion from nice aqauscapes and nice
healthy growing plants. I have both. Careful whom you take advice from and listen to, a universal truth is that healthy plant growth = no algae growth/issues. So focus on the plant growth. More CO2, more nutrients Algae do better at lower nutrients than plants, not higher. Algae are also in a different niche than plants due to their much smaller size and requirements. Regards, Tom Barr |
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There is no conjecture nor opinion from nice aqauscapes and nice
healthy growing plants. I have both. Careful whom you take advice from and listen to, a universal truth is that healthy plant growth = no algae growth/issues. So focus on the plant growth. More CO2, more nutrients Algae do better at lower nutrients than plants, not higher. Algae are also in a different niche than plants due to their much smaller size and requirements. Regards, Tom Barr |
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There is no conjecture nor opinion from nice aqauscapes and nice
healthy growing plants. I have both. Careful whom you take advice from and listen to, a universal truth is that healthy plant growth = no algae growth/issues. So focus on the plant growth. More CO2, more nutrients Algae do better at lower nutrients than plants, not higher. Algae are also in a different niche than plants due to their much smaller size and requirements. Regards, Tom Barr |
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There is no conjecture nor opinion from nice aqauscapes and nice
healthy growing plants. I have both. Careful whom you take advice from and listen to, a universal truth is that healthy plant growth = no algae growth/issues. So focus on the plant growth. More CO2, more nutrients Algae do better at lower nutrients than plants, not higher. Algae are also in a different niche than plants due to their much smaller size and requirements. Regards, Tom Barr |
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There is no conjecture nor opinion from nice aqauscapes and nice
healthy growing plants. I have both. Careful whom you take advice from and listen to, a universal truth is that healthy plant growth = no algae growth/issues. So focus on the plant growth. More CO2, more nutrients Algae do better at lower nutrients than plants, not higher. Algae are also in a different niche than plants due to their much smaller size and requirements. Regards, Tom Barr |
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There is no conjecture nor opinion from nice aqauscapes and nice
healthy growing plants. I have both. Careful whom you take advice from and listen to, a universal truth is that healthy plant growth = no algae growth/issues. So focus on the plant growth. More CO2, more nutrients Algae do better at lower nutrients than plants, not higher. Algae are also in a different niche than plants due to their much smaller size and requirements. Regards, Tom Barr |
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