| Brucey I also run a phosphate remover but it will not touch organic phosphates, it only binds inorganic forms. On your phosphates my friend this is how you me and everyone must look at them. If you get a reading off your hobby test kit it is only telling you what the inorganic content is (as that is all they measure). If you show a level of inorganic phosphate then you know that you organic phosphates are completely saturated. Example, inorganic form is the food, organic is the binder. if thier is inorganic phosphate in your tank that means that the orgainc forms are full and cannot take anymore (kinda like the food is left on the plate and the guests are stuffed, lol. This is where the heavy wet skimming comes back into play, with this type of skimming you are removing large ammounts of inorganic and organic types, and thus doing some actual exporting. So its back to real simple my friend, serve dinner of the things you know they like to eat and then clean the plates off for the next meal, keeps the dinning room real clean.
Mike |