| Good story Alberto, glad that passed u by..man what a drag that must have been.
Just to give a little light for a few folks taht maybe reading your story. Inorganic phosphate is basically phosphates that we add to our tank via food, additives, AWS mixes and so on. OUr hobbist test kits measure this type of phosphate only. These kinds of phoaphates are bound almost immediatly by biological forms both by animals, vegitable and bacterial. Once bound it becomes organic Phosphate and with the exception of one test kit (Hach I believe) we cannot test for it. A good way to know you have organic phosphate, beyond an algae problem is is you still have inorganic phosphate you probibly have a ton of organic.
As Alberto pointed out using biologiical means to try o eliminate it is really just another cycle (as in the fish eats the algae bound with it and then poops it right back out again, making it available). Pretty much all algae have a last fight responce to being attacked by releasin spores, thus propagating the species..
Alberto Rowa is a good product, I ave also used it. It is expensive but I think it will be very affordable in the near future as the distributors are bringing it in on mass. (by the way this is the same manufacturer as the media for the deltec reactor). Thier is another product that also works well. Its from proline and is sold by aquatic ecosstems. I also run this product, it lasts longer in the water and will not release afterit becomes full.
Good post
MIke |