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Nicole8ca
01-08-2008, 03:15 PM
What causes high phosphate? Is it poor water quality to start? Or is more caused by something I'd be doing (IE: too much light, over feeding, what ever)?
dsaundry
01-08-2008, 03:19 PM
Overfeeding is one cause. Infrequent water changes contribute as well. High phosphate promotes hair algae..Yuk:sad:
albert_dao
01-08-2008, 04:29 PM
Organics breaking down is also a contributor.