I believe Robert T. Ricketts wrote this email section below:
Stuart Halliday wrote, in part:Diatoms like eating silicates, so using a Silicate remover in a filter mayhelp. It would only help if the water were pretreated by the phosphate/silicate remover before addition to the tank. The use of such directly on planted tanks will starve the plants of their require macronutrient, phosphate. Pretreated water can be phosphate supplemented in the tank. The same treatments pull both.
Yes that's true but you can add Phosphate manually easily enough. -- Stuart Halliday http://mytriops.com/ 200 Million years in the making... _______________________________________________ Aquatic-Plants mailing list Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com http://mailman.actwin.com/mailman/listinfo/aquatic-plants