phosphate

Hi Everyone, I have been sitting on the following scientific paper for a year and I suspect that it may be of interest to others for a variety of reasons. Ever wondered why algae grows in water in which there appears to be no measurable phosphate/phosphorus? Could it just be that the phosphate...

Hi Everyone, Based on a lot of observations and measurements, I'd like to put forward a suggestion/hypothesis. It is this: Perhaps cyanobacteria (BGA) and algae need inorganic phosphate (orthophosphate)/PO4--- in order to grow and survive. But higher plants (macrophytes) can use either...

Dosing ferts using E.I. in heavily planted tank. Green spot algae is coming back weekly on glass, stones and plant leaves. I've increased phosphate levels to 1ppm as been told this can help two weeks ago and not seen any improvement? Removing as much as possible weekly. Use Chihiros doctor for...

Hi Everyone! I have just posted on a cyanobacteria/BGA thread but felt it would possibly be useful to also mention it here as the subject matter is of relevance to algae. That way, there are two separate threads. One dealing with cyanobacteria/BGA (the other one) and this one (the one you are...

Hi, I'm planning to make a all in one solution and read that phosphate and iron cannot be mixed together because iron can become insoluble and precipitate to iron (III) phosphate. I decide to make a test and mix CSM+B and KH2PO4 together with RO water and see if there is any reaction in the...

Hello. I very often use products from ADA in my aquariums (the entire line of soils and fertilizers), but still I can not fully understand how it still works. In my aquariums there is always a powerful filtration, a strong supply of carbon dioxide and strong lighting, clean osmosis, without...

Hall! As I know the old system fertilizers has contained nitrates and phosphates. Seem to be It had a strange ratio N : P in "special shade" and "special lights" (Tom Barr gives that data). But now ADA has only Nitrates (without phosphates) in their Nitrogen ferts. Am I right? Anybody knows how...

Tank - Jewel Trigon 350 Lighting - Jewel Helialux 54W and cheap white LED strip at rear CO2 - Easylife Liquid Carbon (6ml every day prior to lights on) Filtration - Fluval 306/1150lph and APS EFX+2000/2000lph Fertilisation routine - Easylife Profito (30ml weekly after water change) Maintenance...

TLDR version After a year of struggling with Plant Deficiencies while using IE starter kit , I tested my Macros with 5 tsp of Potassium Phosphate PO4 and found out there are no traces of PO4 in it.. Tested with JBL PO4 sensitive test kit, it works fine when I add Easy-Life Fosfo and it gives...

nitrogen deficiency, what should I do to increase the availability of nitrogen? Even phosphate began to disappear, there is little sign of GSA, for now I just add fertilizer tablets, does nitrogen deficiency also inhibits bacterial growth? I also use macro liquid fertilizer, but not seen any...