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Old 03-01-2013, 03:03 PM
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Originally Posted by kien View Post
I have found that pellets don't take down PO4 all that well so I run GFO for that. Pellets destroy nitrates quite well tho. I does take up to 4 weeks to develop enough culture in the pellets to start being effective tho. Cyano is definitely a possible byproduct of running bioPellets initially and for that I just do a treatment of Chemiclean.
I have some GFO on order with Eli, so hopefully that comes in soon, but I am not seeing any PO4 in any of my tests. Maybe Denny will tell me different when I bring him a jug of water today.
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